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A Disaster Season Like No Other

No college football powerhouse has ever collapsed quite like this year’s Florida State.

College football has never had a disaster season like the one the 2024 Florida State Seminoles are putting on right now.

 

Florida State is one of roughly 14 championship-capable programs at the sport’s top level, part of the select few who can recruit enough elite players to win the whole enchilada when enough things go right. Programs in that weight class have plenty of mediocre seasons, and sometimes they have downright awful ones. You may remember, for example, Notre Dame going 4–8 in 2016. Or you could look at schools like Florida, Michigan, Southern California, and Oklahoma sputtering around .500 right now.

 

FSU wishes dearly that it could be flirting with .500. The Noles are 1–9. They have already finished dead-last in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and they will probably finish 2–10 only because they are paying a lower-level school, Charleston Southern, to visit Tallahassee on Nov. 23. A loss in a few weeks to rival Florida, which itself isn’t very good but is much better than FSU, would guarantee double-digit losses for the third time ever and the first since the 1970s, when FSU was barely even a real program.

 

You can find worse seasons by blue-blood programs. Alabama went 0–11 in 1955, after all. But all of the other seasons of this vintage by top programs came amid prolonged declines, as college sports writer Matt Brown found in his research. Literally never has an elite program gone from the penthouse to the outhouse with the speed that FSU has shown off this fall. This team won the ACC championship with a 13–0 record last season and would have played in the College Football Playoff if scheming bureaucrats on the selection committee had not denied them a spot based on an injury to the team’s starting quarterback. (FSU then got jackhammered into the earth in an Orange Bowl loss to Georgia, but that doesn’t tell us that much. Most of FSU’s best players decided not to participate in that game.)