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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#2: Kind of amazing to me that no one seems to directly blaming the optouts. I do, they joined the team and should have been there to the end. The NFL should put an end to this crap by either formally or informally by not drafting optouts in the 1st several rounds.
Why? College football is a business.
Why? It doesn't affect them.
Lie down with the hogs (sports industries), college sports can expect to get muddy...
they have totally ruined college sports...another professional league like the nba or nfl...oh goody....
The only thing the outcome of this game proved is that Georgia has a deeper roster than FSU and just about everyone else in college football.
FSU was missing around 20 players including their top 2 QBs, Georgia was also missing around 20 players, they did have a number of their top players who are coming back next year, specifically their QB.
I think FSU did come to win, it became obvious early in the game this was a mismatch and that affects the team on the losing end, they may want to win but they quickly realize that’s not happening making it nearly impossible to keep the enthusiasm for the game.
Even if both teams were at full strength, I still think Georgia wins the game, with all the players out it was a mismatch.
Tough nuggies -
The Seminoles played without their top two quarterbacks, top two running backs, top two receivers, starting tight end, three starting defensive linemen, two of three starting linebackers and three starting defensive backs. They were down 29 scholarship players in all.
I agree. I think college football is already ruined. Now it's just SEC and Big Ten. And it's more like minor league football now.
The NFL should had invested into NFL Europe. And NCAA should allow players go pro after one year (either NFL or NFL Europe).
The players are protecting their "investment" by skipping a stupid bowl game.
I can see where future bowl invitations will have a clause requiring the team to have the players responsible for the team’s success agree to play in the bowl game.
It is classic “bait and switch” fraud.
It’s like selling tickets for a Taylor Swift concert and her female backup singer performs instead.
Playing second-string players in a nationally televised bowl game is a fraud upon ticket purchasers and TV viewers.
I can see this trend will destroy college bowl games as meaningless.
The Georgia seniors are 50-4 as a team over the last four years playing in the SEC, the toughest football conference. Florida State would lose to this Georgia team 99 times out of every hundred times they played. Georgia was deprived of a shot at the National Championship this year despite winning the National title the last two years. They had only one loss this year, by only 3 points, to Alabama which is likely the second best team in the country. Texas should not be in the playoff, Georgia should be (I’m from Texas FYI.).Coach Smart is an incredible coach. His program connects his players to Georgia football for life. Pride in the program and respect for their coaches are what make Georgia players dominate their competition.
“...22 starters out 30+ players out. Ignorance”
It may not have been the players total idea. I think the college used the game as a practice for next year by not using the players that appear to have opted out. I did an entry on another thread and I kind of laughed at FSU’s reaction to being refused the BCS championship by the NCAA. The reason for the committee in Texas to refuse their entry is that their star player Jordan Travis was injured so the team may not be “attractive” enough so they wouldn’t draw a television audience and mess up the ratings for the sponsors. And that has nothing to do with the competition, just the cash.
So who do you punish the players that didn’t play or the college that may have set that up for work purposes? After all, they started their third string quarterback. And the NFL is not going to pass on players that can make them money. They are even more cash oriented than the NCAA and their teams.
And the NCAA and their system got exactly what they asked for. They wouldn’t have had a lesser capable team in that bowl if they had chosen a team under the status of the final four. So FSU gave them exactly what they wanted. NCAA didn’t want competition, they wanted show.
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Companies spend millions on television rights. They probably not happy either. Less viewers, lower advertisng rates.
I don't think that's possible.
Does the Florida legislature still need to hold the NCAA in front of investigation? I think they do. It appears an entire team vanished.
What you could do, remove any type of committee from choosing who gets in the college playoffs, expand the playoffs to 16 teams in 8 conferences or 4 super conferences with divisions.
Making winning your conference mandatory in order to advance, regardless of record.
Make it more like the NCAA college basketball March madness tournament, 68 teams get in that tournament, every year there is some argument over a couple of teams that don’t get in, overall there is no argument over the best team getting left out.
Use the bowl games as playoff sites, other minor bowl games can still happen.
Or you paid the full price for Lakers tickets but LeBron James is sitting out due to "load management".
Kind of like FCS playoffs.
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