Posted on 12/04/2023 9:25:50 AM PST by JSM_Liberty
The former President finally addressed the Seminoles' playoff exclusion Monday.
Former President Donald Trump is blaming a familiar foe for the Florida State University (FSU) Seminoles not making the College Football Playoffs — his chief political rival and fellow Florida man, Gov. Ron DeSantis.
In a post to Truth Social, Trump said “Florida State was treated very badly by the ‘Committee.'”
“They become the first Power Five team to be left out of the College Football Playoffs. Really bad lobbying effort…Lets blame DeSanctimonious!!!”
The dig is especially brutal considering outrage over FSU’s perceived snub after the team failed to make the playoffs despite a perfect season. Fans, and even those who don’t fear the spear have taken to social media since the decision over the weekend to decry FSU’s omission even as two teams without a perfect record made the cut. DeSantis was among the perturbed.
Posting to X on Sunday, DeSantis said “what we learned today is that you can go undefeated and win your conference championship game, but the College Football Playoff committee will ignore these results.” Interestingly, DeSantis has talked about Florida State football at various points during this campaign.
During a speech to a group in Prosperity, South Carolina, Ron DeSantis extolled the current performance of the Seminoles, framing it as a welcome change from years of mediocrity from the Sunshine State’s gridiron programs.
“Clemson has won in football recently. Florida, our state, has struggled in college football recently,” DeSantis complained.
“We were the top state for years and years. We’ve not had anybody compete even to make the playoff until this year,” DeSantis added, forgetting FSU’s loss in the CFB Playoffs after the 2014 season.
DeSantis has given variations of this speech before, lauding the Seminoles’ performance and excoriating years of lackluster seasons among the state’s programs before that, and forgetting that FSU made the playoff previously. “We’ve actually never had a team in the college football playoff since the playoffs started. Fast forward, rewind, when I was growing up in the ’80s and ’90s, it was like a Florida team was competing for the national title almost every year,” DeSantis recounted during an interview Wednesday on WFEA’s Morning Update.
The Governor, who played Division 1 baseball at Yale, griped early in his administration about students leaving the state to play college football elsewhere.
“I realized this my first year as Governor. I asked my staff to give me letters of congratulations for all Florida’s high school blue-chip football recruits because we’ve got great high school football in Florida. And I’m signing these letters and it’s like, ‘Dear Michael, congratulations on going to the University of Georgia. Congratulations on going to Alabama.’ And I’m like, why congratulate them for leaving our state?” DeSantis said to a crowd in Georgia this summer.
“That didn’t used to be what it was.”
What Bowl game are the Gators going to?
Ha, ha. No, but I do see that they are going to play, not in the Peachbowl, but in the Orange Bowl.
Maybe I'm wrong, but the last I checked no one was demanding all of the SEC be in the playoffs. Only Bama and Georgia -- two teams that had impressive records against a lot more big winning teams than anybody else except Texas.
How dare you. Meatball said he would finish his term, yet he hasn’t stepped foot in Florida in months!!! The Florida State rejection is on him!!!!!
“The SEC wasn’t good this year.”
The pathetic committee felt they had to put a SEC team in there to be “fair’ to the sports MSM. And of course TV money.
So now FSU is totally “disrespected.” Who was lobbying for FSU?
FSU and Georgia are slated to play each other in the Orange Bowl. It will be an interesting game.
They’ll play in the Orange Bowl in Miami, not the Peach Bowl.
Stick to the abortion issue. You will lose not clarifying it.
The Toilet Bowl?
I did not follow that at all...
In a perfect world, yes!
Point being, Bama’s Strength of Schedule wasn’t that great neither. Add in almost losing to Auburn, and struggling with USF.
They should call it, The Anti-Gator Bowl.
That’s ok, I guess I’ll console myself with those football, basketball and baseball titles we’ve won in the last 15 years.
It frequently happens that there are 5 or 6 teams considered for the 4 spots. This was the first year that IMO there were 8 legitimate contenders: the 2 PAC12 teams, the 2 Big10 teams, the 2 SEC teams, Texas and FSU. Those 8 would have made a heck of a playoff.
Trump is so far ahead in the polls, one would think he could realize that being generous to DeSantis would score higher than petty sniping. DeSantis is effectively out of the running, and DJT would do well to befriend him.
If they do play, I can already see the outcome.
Geez.
Florida St. was indeed hosed.
Bama played 5 teams that were good enough throughout the year to make it to the final rankings at the end of the season (Georgia, Texas, LSU, Ole Miss, and Tennessee). You can say that's not a strong strength of schedule. And you can also say that Stacey Abrams is anemic. You'd be wrong on both.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings/_/poll/21/week/14/year/2023/seasontype/2
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