For 10 years, no rivalry burned hotter than Florida State vs. Miami .

Wild finishes. No. 1 teams collapsing. Pregame scuffles. Miami's mascot cuffed by police. Nothing in sports -- or in daytime soap operas -- matched the chaos of the real-life drama that unfolded every fall in Miami and Tallahassee from 1985 to 1994.

Seven straight top 10 clashes, including four as top-five teams. Legends were born, heartbreak branded into history: Wide Right I and II, the Game of the Century. Two quarterbacks -- Miami's Gino Torretta and Florida State's Charlie Ward -- won the Heisman Trophy. Four national titles were claimed -- three for the Hurricanes and one for the Seminoles. For a decade, the road to glory ran through Tallahassee and Coral Gables.

"The amount of violence on the field was unma

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