FSU Football: 2013 team slightly disrespected in all-time ranking

FSU football fielded arguably the best team in the history of college football not that long ago, but one website didn’t show them the proper amount of love.

Last season, the FSU football team took the field for their 72nd campaign of games – a series of events over seven plus decades that includes some of the best times in the history of the program that includes three national titles, with the most recent one being during the 2013 season when the Noles went 14-0 in the final BCS season.

What the Seminoles have done is even more impressive considering the fact they are the only college football team in the Power Five conferences that played their first season after World War II came to an end, starting off with the 1947 season that was the 79th season in the history of the game.

In 2019, the sport will celebrate 150 years from the first game back in November of 1869 – and as we enter the summer months before the season gets underway, the website College Football News ranked the national champions from the 150 seasons that have taken place so far.

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Now, the good news for FSU football is that when it comes to that 2013 team – one that I personally will argue is the best college football team to ever play the game – the website ranked them as the second best team of the era before the last five seasons that ended with a College Football Playoff.

"There wasn’t so much as a hiccup before getting to Pasadena. Clemson was supposed to come out rocking at home, and it got its doors blown off 51-14. Miami was in the midst of a decent season…41-14.In all, Florida State ended up whacking around eight teams that finished with winning records, the defense allowed seven points or fewer seven times, and the ACC Championship against Duke was a mere formality in a 45-7 blowout."

I mean, this was arguably the most stacked team in the history of the game that scored the most points of any champion (723) in the HISTORY OF THE GAME while allowing less than nine points a game to the 12 teams not named Boston College and Auburn – the only two teams to score more than 17 points vs. FSU football that season.

Now, here is the part that gets me a little riled up…let us take a look at the teams ranked Nos. 5 through 1 on the list:

"No. 5 – 2016 Clemson (14-1)No. 4 – 2014 Ohio State (14-1)No. 3 – 2015 Alabama (14-1)No. 2 – 2018 Clemson (15-0)No. 1 – 1894 Yale (16-0)"

Alright, alright, alright, alright, ALRIGHT…putting my personal loyalty toward the 2013 Seminoles aside for a second I will kinda give the benefit of the doubt to the fact that three of the teams had the same number of wins (’16 Tigers got lucky against the Noles) and last year’s Clemson team finished with the most wins in a long, long time.

But 1894 Yale? Are you kidding me? Yeah, they gave up a total of 13 points all season (allowing just three teams to score on them) but what kind of teams were the playing! Four games against ‘athletic clubs’? Tufts? Lehigh? Call me when they play a schedule that includes ranked teams like Clemson, Miami or Auburn!

The 2013 FSU football team was, without a doubt, the best team to ever step foot on the field of play – and would destroy the 1894 Bulldogs any day of the week (if any of their players were still alive, seeing as most would be around 145 years old by this time).