Florida State is giving one of its own a bigger microphone.
Eric Luallen, a former Seminoles football player and the current radio play-by-play voice for FSU baseball, has been named the public address announcer at Doak Campbell Stadium.
“I am incredibly humbled to be given this opportunity, in this stadium, almost 40 years to the day after I reported for my first practice under Coach Bowden,” Luallen said. “I feel like the luckiest person in the world to have the honor to serve my alma mater through my 20 seasons as the radio voice of FSU baseball and now also this opportunity with Florida State football.”
Luallen played offensive line for College Football Hall of Fame coach Bobby Bowden from 1986-89, arriving in Tallahassee just as Florida State’s rise was hitting full speed. His final three seasons helped launch a run that became part of Seminoles lore.
FSU went 11-1 in both 1987 and 1988, finishing 1987 with a Fiesta Bowl win over No. 3 Nebraska and closing the 1988 season with a Sugar Bowl victory over No.
4 Auburn. Luallen’s senior year brought another 10-2 finish and a Fiesta Bowl win over No.
5 Nebraska. The Seminoles were No. 2 in the final AP poll in 1987 and ranked No. 3 in both 1988 and 1989, opening an NCAA-record streak of 14 straight top-five finishes that began in 1987 and ran through 2000.
Luallen has been behind the microphone in FSU baseball since 2007, calling 984 games on radio. That stretch includes six College World Series trips, four ACC Tournament titles and three regular-season conference championships. He has also worked on FSU football pregame shows and anchored the debut season of GameDay Live on the Seminoles Unconquered app from inside Doak Campbell Stadium in 2025.
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