FSU Football: Website rips Seminoles rivalry with Florida Gators

FSU football will celebrate 60 years of playing the Gators in football in 2018 – but one website says the game is no longer one that matters in the sport.

On November 22, 1958 – in their 12 season of playing since becoming a co-educational school again – the FSU football team finally got a chance to play the Florida Gators after years of resistance from that school down south. It’s a series that was dominated by one school, with the Seminoles just winning two of the first 19 games.

Since then, not only have the Noles won a majority of the last 43 games in the series (24-18-1 to be exact), but the series has been one that has decided who will play for the national title six times over an eight season span from 1993 until 2000.

Even in years where one or both teams are down by their standards (or a team like Florida has a losing record twice in the last five seasons, something FSU football hasn’t done since 1976), it’s a game that still tends to be in the national spotlight while attracting attention from fans of both schools, the sport and recruits from Florida and around the country.

However, one website is not only taking a shot at the battle between the Seminoles and Gators – they are going all in claiming it actually “sucks”.

The Spun published its list of the Top 10 college football rivalries that, to them, “actually suck” – and have the FSU football battle with Florida listed at No. 7.

"Florida and Florida State has essentially taken turns being nationally relevant over the past dozen years. From 2004-2009, Florida won every matchup between these two – with the Gators winning two national titles in that time span.But since 2010…the Seminoles are 7-1 against their main in-state rival in that span – adding a national title of their own. So yes, these programs are significant. But they haven’t been great at the same time since the 1990s-early 2000s."

Obviously, this was written by someone who is either a.) a fan of a team that is not good at football so doesn’t appreciate the college game…b.) someone who went to a school where college football didn’t exist so doesn’t understand the game or…c.) someone just trying to start drama.

If you want to say the rivalry is streaky or one that isn’t as relevant for the national title as it once was, I can get fully behind that argument since it’s true. FSU football didn’t to their part during the lost half decade and the Gators haven’t for much of the last eight seasons.

Still, both teams could be 0-11 entering the game and each player and coach would go out there as if it was the College Football Playoff title game. Ask someone in garnet and gold or orange and blue if this rivalry “actually sucks” and you will get plenty of pushback.

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This list was done mostly by how the rivalry is one-sided of late – No. 1 is Alabama-Tennessee while Ohio State and Michigan come in at No. 4, as an example – but the wins and losses don’t define a rivalry. The hate you have for a program and passion you have to beat them is what does – and FSU vs. Florida checks both of those boxes without question.