Sit down everyone, I want to tell you a story about the 1993 college football season...

There's this guy named Danny Kanell who is absolutely beside himself with grief and anger over an undefeated Florida State team being left out of the College Football Playoff. What ol' Danny is forgetting to tell ya'll is that he won a national championship as a Seminole football player back in 1993. Now that was a very good football team that played in the era of the Bowl Coalition - a forerunner to the Bowl Championship Series.

In November of that season, #1 Florida State (9-0) traveled to South Bend, Indiana to take on #2 Notre Dame (9-0) in a Game of the Century match-up. In what was an epic game, FSU lost to the Fighting Irish by the score of 31-24. As a consequence, Florida State fell to #2 while Notre Dame rose to #1. Those rankings would not hold for long as #1 Notre Dame would be upset the very next week by #17 Boston College by the score of 31-29. #2 Florida State would beat #7 Florida 33-21 in their final regular season game and would close out ranked the 1993 calendar year with an 11-1 record and a #1 ranking.

This is significant for a couple of reasons because, despite the loss, Florida State was ranked #1 over an undefeated Big Eight Nebraska Cornhuskers team and an undefeated Big East West Virginia Mountaineers team. That's to say nothing of 10-1 Notre Dame who had the head-to-head win over the Seminoles.

And yet, when the final Bowl Coalition rankings were released in 1993, this is how everything shook out:

1. Florida State (11-1)
2. Nebraska (11-0)
3. West Virginia (11-0)
4. Notre Dame (10-1)

Florida State would go on to defeat #2 Nebraska in the Orange Bowl by the score of 18-16. #4 Notre Dame would defeat #7 Texas A&M by the score of 24-21 in the Cotton Bowl while #3 West Virginia would get blown out by #8 Florida in the Sugar Bowl by the score of 41-7.

When the final rankings were released after the bowl games, they would shake out to look like:

1. Florida State (12-1)
2. Notre Dame (11-1)
3. Nebraska (11-1)
4. Auburn (11-0)

So not only was West Virginia, a major conference program, robbed of a national championship berth by a 1-loss Florida State team, they also stole a national championship from Notre Dame - a team that had beaten them head-to-head and finished second in both major polls with the same amount of losses as Florida State.

When Danny Kanell was confronted about this on Twitter last night, he brought up Florida State's strength of schedule (which was pretty solid mind you) as the reason why FSU got in over WVU. Oh. So strength of schedule mattered in 1993, Danny, but not 2023? Because presently Alabama's strength of schedule is listed at #5 while Florida State's is listed at #55.

Down vote away, but it's been 30 years since Florida State screwed over both West Virginia and Notre Dame on their way to a national championship. Sometimes it takes a while, but eventually karma rears its ugly head and bites you in the arse.