Florida State's Great Season Misses College Football Playoff
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00:02 Despite winning all 13 of the football games that Florida State played this
00:07 year, despite three of them coming against teams that finished the year ranked in
00:11 the top 25 in the college football playoff rankings,
00:14 despite winning a Power Five Conference Championship, it wasn't enough for
00:18 FSU to make the college football playoff.
00:21 Despite winning their conference championship game by double digits,
00:25 I understand it was only 16 to 6.
00:28 I understand that third string quarterback Brock Glenn only threw for
00:32 55 yards.
00:33 But what I don't think people truly understand is they ran for
00:36 164 against the only rushing defense in the ACC that allowed less than 100 yards
00:41 per game this year.
00:43 And they held that other team on the other side, Louisville,
00:46 to just 2.8 yards per carry.
00:48 A Cardinals team that rushed for
00:50 more than 183 yards per game throughout the season.
00:55 And despite Brock Glenn starting the ACC title game with backup Tate
00:58 Rodemaker in concussion protocol,
01:01 Rodemaker would have been back for a college football playoff.
01:05 All of that does not matter, obviously, as the only thing that matters
01:10 is a quarterback breaking his leg in the second to last game
01:15 of the regular season for Florida State.
01:17 That same quarterback, a college kid, and Jordan Travis,
01:22 having to tweet out, I wish I broke my leg earlier so
01:27 the college football playoff selection committee could have had a better
01:30 evaluation of Florida State as a whole.
01:34 Despite the fact that Florida State won on the road against an SEC rival and
01:40 covered as a six and a half point favorite and won an ACC title game by double digits.
01:46 After that very quarterback in Jordan Travis suffered his season and
01:50 career ending leg injury.
01:53 None of that matters.
01:54 Games don't matter.
01:56 Winning all of your games doesn't matter.
01:57 Losses don't matter.
01:59 Championships don't matter.
02:00 Injuries and TV ratings, that's all that matters.
02:04 >> Yes, and that's what's set up here for the NCAA.
02:07 And I preface this by saying too, I know a lot of people go down back to
02:10 Cardale Jones and you had an injury there to Ohio State.
02:13 But we had a belief that there might be something underlying with Cardale Jones.
02:17 257 and three scores in a Big Ten Championship.
02:19 It's like, hey, I wanna buy in.
02:21 And I also have the same belief for Florida State.
02:23 If we got anything at a rata maker against Florida that was positive,
02:26 say you know what?
02:27 Couple touchdown passes, 275 yards against a horrendous Florida defense
02:32 that ranks in the bottom of statistics.
02:34 But he didn't do anything in that game.
02:35 Then again, you're asking a true freshman quarterback to come in and
02:38 save Florida State here in an ACC Championship game.
02:41 That's the position we're saying just don't lose it for us.
02:43 That's what you got.
02:44 18 of 21, 55 yards, no touchdown passes, and a QBR of 12.7.
02:49 That's what the committee saw.
02:50 And I always go back to the point.
02:51 If you were watching Saturday night and saying, okay,
02:54 let me get a peek of this Louisville, Florida State game.
02:56 It was apparent with that quarterback,
02:58 they just didn't measure up to the top talent in the country.
03:01 But that never should be what happens here.
03:03 But that's the way we are with just four teams getting into the college football
03:06 playoff.
03:07 And also didn't help that Louisville probably should have won that football
03:09 game. But Jack Plummer actually played like a plumber in that game at a 13.1 QBR.
03:15 It's a shame cuz Florida State's defense is talented enough
03:18 to win a national championship.
03:20 But sometimes you need style points to move on as we always talk about.
03:24 Florida State had negative style points at the quarterback position,
03:27 and that's what did them in.
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