FSU Football: Why 2019 game with Miami is not as bad as records say

FSU Football comes into their game with rival Miami with the most losses for any meeting between the two since the year before Bobby Bowden took over.

It’s the game that at one time was the must see event of the entire college football season – now, the game between FSU football and rival Miami might not even be the most important game in its time slot Saturday as both teams come in with more losses (eight) than a meeting between the teams that took place before Seminoles coach Willie Taggart was even born.

It was November 15,1975 when the Hurricanes came to Tallahassee and left with a 24-22 victory that would be the final home game inside of Doak Campbell Stadium for head coach Darrell Mudra – who was fired by FSU after that season and replaced with some guy from West Virginia named Bobby Bowden. I wonder how that turned out?

That season, the FSU football team finished the year with a 3-8 record that is much more misleading than the actually were as a team – mostly because the team had five losses, including the one to the Canes, that were by four points or less.

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If that sounds familiar to you, the Seminoles this season come into the game with a 4-4 record that one could argue is just three plays away from being a 7-1 record and the Noles being both a ranked team and one looking at the possibility of making it to a New Year Six appearance in the Orange Bowl instead of praying just to be bowl eligible.

The Hurricanes, under first year coach and FSU alum Manny Diaz (just a reminder for Canes fans, you’re led by a Nole), are coming into the game with the same 4-4 record and an argument could be made by their fans and coaching staff that they are just three to four plays from being unbeaten or with a one loss record for this showdown.

Translation: this is still going to be must see television, no matter what the records.

All week, the game was being mocked as just a sad piece of what it once was with two teams who have limped into the game. But when the Noles and Canes meet Saturday afternoon, none of the first eight games matter at all.

It’s going to again be a game between two of the teams in the sport with the best athletes playing in the best state fighting for a years worth of bragging rights – and as a FSU alum living in South Florida, I need those to come back.

Eight wins, eight losses or even a mixture in the middle – none of that matters. FSU football’s game with Miami is the best in college football every year.