Catchall FSU Gone/Snubbed/White Knighting Thread

gtphd said:
This wasn't an anti-ACC situation. What the selection committee (which changes every year) said is that they won't exclude the SEC (and presumably the B1G). This means that you get 2 of 3 (PAC, ACC, and XII) since the committee said in 2017-2018 that they won't let in a G5. This just happened to be a year where the ACC was behind PAC and XII (and XII got in simply because the committee needed to justify the SEC).
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So what you are saying is it wasn't anti-ACC but pro-SEC. What's the difference?
 
gtphd said:
I polled some FSU people I know. They believe that even with losing home field media revenue from the GoR (which they now accept they'll have to pay), the incremental conference revenue from the SEC would about make them whole.
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If ACC owns the home field rights, what does FSU have to deliver? They could play in the SEC and set all home games at 8 pm eastern. Nothing but night games that the fans would love. Then allow the ACC access only at game time, no power, ööööty camera angle. Allow a ‘pirate’ website access to the TV box to live stream. Make zero allowances for TV timeouts.
 
Didn’t see a post about it, but what are thoughts on the Orange Bowl coaches presser getting canceled? Would be hilarious to me if the Dwags don’t get to play a bowl because of sore Semenholes.
 
gtphd said:
The best thing for them is to best uga. All I hear from SEC apologists is how fsu isn’t one of the best teams and how any of the top 4 would wipe the floor with them.
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Definitely, I still hope they sue and tech gets some money from a settlement, however unlikely that would be

But win the game, throw a parade, and hang a banner, that should be the goal now. Have the parade and celebration the day of the final.
 
USCJacket said:
More smoke…Looks like FSU is trying to go to the B1G per ”rumors” a decision to leave the ACC (again) could come by the end of January.

www.tallahassee.com

Is FSU leaving the ACC for Big Ten after being left out of playoffs? Here's what we know

After an undefeated FSU football team was left out of the College Football Playoff, rumors swirled that Florida State was working to leave the ACC.
www.tallahassee.com
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"The SEC is very unlikely," the post reads. "The conference is aligned with ESPN, the network at the forefront of the CFP Collusion Scandal. It's been reported that the SEC is more interested in UVA & UNC from the ACC...
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UVA? What the ever loving öööö will UVA do for the SEC? Be a second Vanderbilt?

And UNC? Just adding a punching bag? UNC hasn't won öööö in football in 43 years.

Jesus.
 
JJacket said:
UVA? What the ever loving öööö will UVA do for the SEC? Be a second Vanderbilt?

And UNC? Just adding a punching bag? UNC hasn't won öööö in football in 43 years.

Jesus.
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they need more in-conference cupcakes to mask the fact that they play a lot of cupcakes every year.
 
The B1G is looking for more teams with/for:
- highly watched matchups
- TV sets added by State / Market (Florida is huge, Georgia has more TV sets than Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, etc.)
- AAC research consortium

F$U to B1G is Big if true.
 
I have a concern FSU will somehow use their Playoff exclusion to get out of paying their ACC exit fee. Like they've been wrongly denied financial gain by virtue of membership in the ACC and the remedy is to be allowed to leave without penalty. It figures the Committee would screw them and we'd somehow suffer the consequences (beyond bowl money).
 
justafan said:
I have a concern FSU will somehow use their Playoff exclusion to get out of paying their ACC exit fee. Like they've been wrongly denied financial gain by virtue of membership in the ACC and the remedy is to be allowed to leave without penalty. It figures the Committee would screw them and we'd somehow suffer the consequences (beyond bowl money).
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If that excuse would work it seems like other teams in the ACC could use that as an excuse too.
 
justafan said:
I have a concern FSU will somehow use their Playoff exclusion to get out of paying their ACC exit fee. Like they've been wrongly denied financial gain by virtue of membership in the ACC and the remedy is to be allowed to leave without penalty. It figures the Committee would screw them and we'd somehow suffer the consequences (beyond bowl money).
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That seems like it would be hard to prove.
 
In contrast in 3 quarters of play against Alabama on the road he put up 163 rushing yards and 219 passing yards accounting for 3 TD’s and 1 INT.
 
How Florida State’s College Football Playoff snub affected ACC (and other) bowl scenarios.

When Holiday Bowl executive director Mark Neville woke up Sunday morning, he assumed he would be announcing his bowl’s Clemson-USC matchup later that day. Gator Bowl counterpart Greg McGarity was anticipating North Carolina versus Tennessee in his game. The Sun Bowl’s Bernie Olivas had his eyes on Miami-Oregon State, but there were several other teams he figured were possible on the ACC side — none of which were Notre Dame.

Then the College Football Playoff selection show came on. They, along with many other bowl directors, watched with varying degrees of shock when 13-0 Florida State was not included among the top four teams.

It set off a chaotic chain of events during several hours Sunday that affected more than 20 teams’ bowl destinations and ended with a top-20 Notre Dame team headed for El Paso.

“It was crazy, and it all started with the unfortunate decision not to put Florida State in the top four,” Neville said.

“It was something nobody could really fathom,” McGarity said. “I don’t think anyone really planned for it.”

Selection Sunday is often a bit of a fire drill for the bowls, but two 11th-hour wrinkles made this year’s lineup particularly fluid — and in one conference’s case, controversial.

For weeks, it was assumed that the loser of the Ohio State-Michigan game would play in the Orange Bowl as the highest-ranked available team from the Big Ten or SEC. But when Alabama upset Georgia in the SEC Championship Game, it meant the Dawgs, not the Buckeyes, landed in Miami. That in turn triggered an unusual clause in the leagues’ contracts that turned the ReliaQuest (formerly Outback) Bowl from an ACC bowl to a Big Ten bowl. The Irish, who can play in any ACC bowl in their agreement with the conference, had been the Tampa game’s presumed pick, but that was no longer an option.


It was widely assumed that Louisvillewould be on the other side of the Orange Bowl, win or lose in the ACC title game. Either the Cardinals would win and, as the ACC’s champion, be contractually placed there, or FSU would win and move into the Playoff, with Louisville replacing it in Miami.

But with no ACC team in the Playoff, that conference landed only one New Year’s Six team, turning Louisville into a bowl free agent. And with Louisville now out, No. 11 Ole Miss unexpectedly landed the SEC a fourth New Year’s Six berth, sending a ripple through that conference’s lineup that left the SEC-affiliated Duke’s Mayo Bowl with no eligible team. Through some 11th-hour bartering, the Charlotte game somehow landed a Big 12 team, 8-4 West Virginia.

“Going into the weekend, you try to plan out the various scenarios, you play the various what ifs out,” said Danny Morrison, executive director of the Charlotte Sports Foundation. “But we always go in saying, ‘Understand, we’re likely going to play whack-a-mole.'”

But the dominoes did not fall as smoothly in the ACC.

The Gator Bowl, Holiday Bowl and Pop-Tarts (formerly Cheez-It) Bowl in Orlando, which comprise the league’s “premium” tier, can in theory select any remaining team within one win of each other, as long as they avoid repeat visits, regular-season rematches, etc. Heading into the weekend, that pool was expected to consist of 9-3 NC State, 8-4 Clemsonand 8-4 North Carolina. Now, it appeared the bowls could pick from 10-3 Louisville and 9-3 Notre Dame as well.

But when the bowls got on their scheduled 2:45 p.m. ET call with ACC senior associate commissioner for football Michael Strickland and other league executives, they learned it would not be that simple. For one thing, conference rules and tiebreakers stipulated that Louisville and NC State, the latter by virtue of its head-to-head wins over Clemson and North Carolina, had to be two of the three teams selected.
 
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