FSU too many turnovers.
I do miss seeing the Florida schools at the top of football. Decade for Florida since Tebow left. Miami, not since Butch Davis and Crocker at the helm at the beginning of the millennium. FSU think they were the most recent one to be in the playoff.
I'm pretty sure you're correct.
FSU won the last NC in the BCS era, in Jameis Winston's freshman year. They were in the playoff next year by being undefeated going in, but they really weren't one of the 4 best teams that year and the results bore that out when they got pummeled by Marcus Mariota's Oregon Ducks. OSU then ran the football down Oregon's throats in the NC and some morons in the sports media business actually thought Cardale Jones should leave for the NFL because apparently it is easy to confuse Cardale Jones with Zeke Elliott.
That 2001 Miami team was still the best NCAA team any of the Florida schools ever had. The 1999 FSU team went wire-to-wire but they would have lost to the 2001 Hurricanes, and so would have any of the Tebow teams (though he was a beast at UF.)