The Choke at Doak was a 1994 college football game between the Florida Gators and Florida State Seminoles. The game is one of the most memorable in the heated Florida–Florida State rivalry and tied the NCAA record for the biggest fourth-quarter comeback. In the matchup of 9-1 cross-state rivals at Florida State's Doak Campbell Stadium, Florida squandered a 28-point fourth quarter lead and allowed the Seminoles to tie the score at 31 in the final minutes. Because the game occurred before the advent of overtime in college football, it ended in a tie that would be regarded very differently by each respective fan base.

Both teams entered the November 26 game—their final of the regular season—with identical 9-1 records. Florida, ranked fourth, had been the number one ranked team earlier in the season before a loss to Auburn knocked them from their perch. Florida State, the defending national champion, suffered an early-October loss to nemesis Miami and was ranked seventh heading into the clash with Florida. Florida was led by future Heisman Trophy winner Danny Wuerffel at quarterback, while Florida State had managed to replace 1993 Heisman Trophy winner Charlie Ward with Danny Kanell behind center.

Although Penn State and Nebraska, the top two ranked teams in the nation, were cruising along to undefeated records, there was no chance the two would meet to settle the championship. Penn State had joined the Big Ten Conference one season earlier, which took them out of the Bowl Coalition as the Rose Bowl would not release them from their commitment to the game as conference champions. This opened up the possibility for other schools to perhaps stake a claim to the national championship among those that were in the coalition's affiliated conferences. The winner of the Florida—Florida State game, along with the previous two national champions in Alabama and Miami, would be able to make a case to be invited to the coalition's championship game; since Nebraska was on its way to a Big Eight Conference title, that meant that these teams were playing to go to the Orange Bowl.

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