Both universities participate in a range of intercollegiate sports, and for the last several years, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has sponsored a ' Sunshine Showdown' promotion that tallies the total number of wins for each school in head-to-head sports competition.
state of Florida: the University of Florida (UF) Gators and Florida State University (FSU) Seminoles. The Florida–Florida State football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the teams of the two oldest public universities of the U.S.