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Florida State Football Sod Cemetery

Tallahassee, Italy

Florida State Football Sod Cemetery

The Florida State Football Sod Cemetery is a monument that memorializes a longstanding college football tradition that dates back to 1962. It features over 100 bronze plaques, each commemorating a "sod game." Sod games represent the Seminoles' victories away from the team's home in Tallahassee. Inte

rred beneath each bronze plaque is a piece of sod—a fragment from the field—that is extracted from the stadiums where the Seminoles won. In the summer of 2013, Florida State built new practice fields, and the cemetery was moved to its current location. The sod cemetery is situated 200 feet north of Doak Campbell Stadium (Gate M) and just outside the entrance to the Al Dunlap Seminole Practice Fields. Each marker represents a day when the Seminoles went on the road and won.

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