FSU Football: Why 2013 Noles vs. 2018 Clemson argument is pointless

The best college football team ever, the 2013 FSU football squad, once again found themselves the topic of debate this week thanks to their own conference.

Across the world of college football fanbases, those who root for a specific program will almost always argue with you about why the best team from that school is the best in the history of the sport – such as with us and FSU football when discussion turns to the 2013 team, which statically was the best (more on that later).

Whether it’s the Miami Hurricanes and the 2001 team, Nebraska in 1995 or even the most recent one with the Clemson Tigers and their 2018 title team, fans are almost always going to be blinded by the loyalty of their favorite program no matter what and no matter who starts an argument about the best team ever.

That last part of the above paragraph came into focus this past week when the ACC of all people, instead of praising the fact that two of the best programs ever are conference schools in the last six seasons, tried to get a discussion going about who would win in a battle between the FSU football team from 2013 and last season’s Tigers.

Now, predictably those in garnet and gold were quick to point out some of the stats mentioned in the video – most points ever by a FBS team, nearly a 40 point difference in points, Heisman winner – while those in orange and purple praised the most recent champs and seemed to harp on the fact they blew out the Noles last season.

Now, we wrote about this earlier this year and when you look at the numbers there is no reason why the 2013 FSU football team would not dog stomp – I’m talking starters out by halftime because the score is so high – what was a Clemson team that I, objectively, would put as one of the top five or six teams of all time if we’re ranking.

But, that brings up an interesting question: why in the holy hell do we need to continue to have this same, tired debate every time a team wins the title?

As I said earlier, the ACC should be shouting from a rooftop that two of the best teams in the history of the sport played in the conference over the last six seasons – not just over history, but within the time that many fans will actually remember. That’s something that no other power five conference can do.

Instead, the conference decided to pass the boredom of summer by creating chaos between its power programs over the past decade – if for nothing more than likes on social media and clicks to a website (I mean, who would do such a thing…yes, that was sarcasm.)

Let us just leave it at this: the 2013 FSU football team and the 2018 Clemson Tigers were two of the best teams to ever play the sport and we’ll just leave it at that. Everyone happy? Okay, good.

(Alright, now that those people in orange have left, let us set the record straight: 2013 FSU would win by at least 17 points. You’re talking about a Seminoles team that averaged more than a touchdown more scored each game and gave up less points per contest before we even talk about how every starter made it to the NFL. That, my friends, is game over.)