Posted on 12/30/2023 11:35:05 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Florida State, per FSU Sports Info, was down 14 starters from its ACC Championship-winning roster.
In the largest scoring margin in bowl game history, Florida State lost 63-3 to the Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday in the Orange Bowl.
Florida State, per FSU Sports Info, was down 14 starters from its ACC Championship-winning roster with multiple players having opted out following FSU’s unprecedented exclusion from the College Football Playoff due to entrance into the NFL Draft or the transfer portal.
Below, find some reactions from recruits, alumni, current players, coaches, officials and Florida State administrators — as well as FSU fans, media members and more.
We’ll continue to update this article as we spot more posts......
"If you say this game is reason we not in the playoffs then you simply don’t know football. 22 starters out 30+ players out. Ignorance"
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FYI Texas football record playing in the Big 12, 2023 12-1 with one or two games left to play, 2022 8-5, 2021 5-7, 2020 7-3. Nice turnaround but not championship caliber compared to Georgia. Less than one year ago (January 9, 2023) Georgia demolished the Big 12 champion TCU in the national title game winning by 58 points. Georgia beat that bowl game record by defeating Florida State by 60 points yesterday. Two bowl wins in 2023 by an average winning margin of 59 points. Defending national champions. And Georgia is not one of the top 4 teams this year? Sure. Also note the class act Coach Kirby Smart is … not whining about his misfortune, answering on the field. How many opt-out players did TCU have? Georgia is a football powerhouse.
Transfer Portal and Name, Image and Likeness money have already destroyed College Football in just two years. Who has the most money to toss around will more than ever determine the National Champion.
The chances that Team will come from some Conference other than the Big 10 (actually the Big 18 now) and SEC will be none. All other Conferences will be the ugly step children, minor league feeder programs who’s best players sell out after their Frosh/Soph year to the highest bidder from the Big 18 / SEC.
Now the NCAA is about to vote on some rule increasing how many times a player can transfer. $hit show.
Exactly all the other divisions of college football have this system except for the top level it’s stupid, IMO the only way to save the bowl system is to expand the playoffs to 16 teams incorporate the bowls into the playoffs
With a 16 team playoff you would have 15 games total in playoffs that would take care of all the major bowls
I had heard that FSU had contemplated not playing at all. Instead they showed up with a skeleton team and performed pathetically.
While I understand Georgia also was down some members, they were not the key ones, apparently.
This also gives the Orange Bowl a black eye for their recruiting next year, becoming more of a consolation prize bowl game like so many of the other bowls. I mean, really, there were some pretty awful bowl teams this year...6-6 and you get to a bowl?
The system needs to change badly. More like a playoff system and rotate the final bowl, at least among the top 4 bowls [or something].
[I miss the old days when New Years was filled with the great bowls like Cotton, Orange, Rose and Sugar. But that just me...]
Go DAWGS... and they had 2nd and 3rd string players in the 2nd half.
FSU.... Participation trophy winners.
Those that opted to not play because they entered the portal better be careful. They demonstrated that they will not be around when the big money game comes to town. That sounds like a bad investment for a university.
EC
Thinking about it more, I would have 4-16 team conferences, total of 64 teams competing for the D1 national title, if you are not one of the 64 teams, join the next level of football and create your own playoff system.
Each conference has 4-4 team divisions, each division winner advances to a conference semi-final, then on to a conference championship game, then into a final 4 of college football, play it off, no committees to pick teams, you win and advance, regardless of your record, just like the other divisions of college football and the NCAA basketball tournament.
If I still cared about NCAA football, I would prefer to see a system in place where no team plays more than two games after the season ends. That likely means go to four major conferences, drop the conference championship games, and go right to a four-team playoff in two rounds.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
College sports have been ruined. I haven’t watched one game this year. Football or basketball. I’ve opted out.
Georgia beat the third stringers who didn’t really care after they didn’t make the playoffs. The NCAA and ESPN told them that the games don’t matter anyway.
Las Vegas oddsmakers lives just got more difficult
Good for FSU, they told the NCAA to stick it up their asses. Anybody see the Michigan team’s reaction when their pathetic NCAA committee did not pick an undefeated team? No doubt this Rose Bowl tomorrow will be a great game, you have the two most winningest teams in history going at it, AFAIK no player on either team has jumped ship and will play their heart out to the last second which is the way it supposed to happen.
The real culprit in this is the NCAA, the hate for them is unlimited. These leftists are the ones that think (or to pretend) that William Thomas is a girl and ruined Riley Gaines swimming records. The NCAA is also the body that send the great west coast teams to the Big 10. And on and on.
FSU players already got screwed by the NCAA’s “committee” and many were seriously financially damaged because an undefeated team wasn’t picked, it hit many of them pocketbook (NFL) as their undefeated season fell on deaf ears.
They were missing players? Well, those players are quitters. It doesn’t matter. Lots of teams are missing players by the end of the year. That’s their team and they had a chance to make a statement in a major bowl. They made a statement alright. That was THE biggest azz whooping a top 5 team has EVER taken in the history of college football.
What an abject humiliation for fsu.
If any of the above seems harsh, that is EXACTLY what fsu fans said to me the last few years when my team was missing a ton of players including being down to our 3rd string QB who had never taken a single snap in a game for us. What goes around comes around. Suck it squaws.
Exactly, starting next year we are headed to a monopoly - imagine the talented kids in high school looking at only two leagues, very sad.
And your response is the other side of the coin which is true also, actually this whole mess has no winners, damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
SEMI-NOLES
fsu was missing more guys and as we previously discussed, Kirby recruited so well, UGA had plenty of young studs just waiting for their chance to play.
But
its more than that. Did you notice the guys UGA was missing were guys who had gone into the portal. Their draft eligible players all chose to play. As much as I hate to say it, Kirby has installed a strong culture in that program. He managed to get his guys to care about this game. fsu probably had more to play for. They could have made the argument that they should’ve been national champs and instead they suffered - by point differential - THE single worst loss in the history of the program.
BTW, this was a sneak peek of what fsu is going to look like next year with almost all of those portal mercenaries gone. Sure they’ll be a little better than they showed last night but they will be nothing like the team they were the last couple years. Their HS recruiting was lousy until this last class.
But as long as the NCAA and ESPN keep those checks coming in, all is fine.
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