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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