FSU Football fans ranked among most overrated by website

FSU football has some of the most vocal supporters in all of college football – but one website uses an odd excuse to take a shot at the garnet and gold.

For at least six Saturdays each college football season, fans of the FSU football team come out in the thousands to Doak Campbell Stadium and road venues across the country to cheer on the Seminoles. They are loud, passionate and unrelenting in their support of the Noles and will stop at nothing to root for their favorite team.

The 2017 season was a trying one for the Seminoles as they finished with a 7-6 record, which tied for the worst by the program over the last 41 seasons (which shows you how good FSU football has been if the “worst” record still has a winning percentage over .500, but I digress.)

At the same time, the FSU football fan base is not for everyone. People hate when we do the tomahawk chop so much, they hate how we defend our team no matter what – but one website posted an odd reason why the fanbase of the Seminoles is, to use their words, overrated.

The Spun recently ranked what they called the top eight most overrated fan bases in all of college football – and while it was fun to see rivals Florida and Miami ranked at No. 7 and No. 5 respectively, it was shocking to see the Seminoles ranked at No. 2 just behind Michigan.

After bringing up the tired augment of #FSUTwitter and their defense of Jameis Winston (he hasn’t played a down for the Seminoles in almost three and a half years, move on), the site said it was fan attendance last season that got the Noles ranked so high.

"Florida State fans trend behind some of the other college football powers when things aren’t going well. This past season, FSU’s worst in a long time, during which it was a pretty open secret that Jimbo Fisher was probably set to leave, attendance trended way down. That is understandable, but the best fan bases in college football show up no matter what."

Okay, I’ll be that guy who people roll their eyes at when it comes to FSU football and defend the Seminoles no matter what. In the case of the 2017 season, the attendance issues had more to do with dealing with a natural disaster than with losses on the field.

Last season saw a one game be postponed and another be moved immediately because Hurricane Irma came through the state – where parts of it still didn’t have power when the Seminoles took on Miami during the first week of October, one of those games that was moved. Sorry if our fans had things at home to deal with.

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Yes, crowds were a lot less last season than in years past – but the writer of that piece, a Syracuse graduate for what it’s worth, should have done some research to see that the 2017 season was one that can’t be compared to others just because of what took place before FSU football even took the field for the first time at home.