FSU Football: Why 2019 Miami game could be best in series history

FSU football is going into a series that has a history of producing national champs – but this season’s game could be for a bowl berth for each team.

It’s a series that is arguably the best in the history of college football – when FSU football takes the field annually against the Miami Hurricanes, it’s a rivalry and a series that has decided a countless amount of national champions along with being annually one of the best games of the entire college football season.

This season’s game will be nothing like any of those previous games as both the Seminoles and the ‘Canes come in with a combined (number) losses – the most combined between the teams since the 1975 meeting during a season that ended with Miami being 2-8 and the Seminoles being 3-8.

Which is why the 2019 edition of the rivalry between FSU football and Miami could be the best game in the series’ history – and if you’ll stop laughing for a moment at that statement, I’ll explain to you why.

Florida State Seminoles Football

It’s no secret that while both teams may have some of the most athletic rosters in the country, they have under performed like none other this season – as Miami enters this weekend’s game with a 4-4 and record and the Seminoles are doing all that much better with the same record after they beat Syracuse last weekend.

While the Seminoles are in slightly better shape of getting two more wins and becoming bowl eligible, Miami and head coach Manny Diaz know that one more loss this weekend to their rivals will likely mean staying home for bowl season with games left at home against Louisville and road games against both FIU and Duke.

(Before you start laughing, remember for a moment that that is a Blue Devils team who smoked a Virginia Tech team that beat the Canes and a Panthers team that currently has more wins than both the Canes and the NFL’s Miami Dolphins combined.)

Translation: this could be the most important FSU football game against Miami that has nothing to do with titles or trophies – and that means you are going to, more than likely, see the best come out of both teams in this one.

Don’t get me wrong – it also does have the potential to be a game of hot garbage and I fully get why people think that. But how many games have you seen like that before in this series? Outside of the three straight games to open seasons in the mid 2000s, you really can not think of any off the top of your heads.

It’s not going to be the sexiest game between the Noles and the Canes – but it could end up being the biggest tone between the teams since they started playing in the 1951 season.