January 1, 2015, is a date most FSU fans would like to forget. It was the date an undefeated FSU football team faced the Oregon Ducks in the inaugural College Football Playoffs.
It had been a crazy season for the Noles, going undefeated for the second consecutive year, but needing several second-half comebacks to do so. It was a team with a ton of NFL talent who could seemingly turn on a switch when they wanted or needed to.
FSU had to travel across the country as +9 point underdogs and trailed the Dukes 18-13 after Roberto Aguayo missed a 54-yard field goal to end the half.
Most people forget it was a competitive game in the first half before FSU turned the ball over FIVE times in the second half, resulting in a 59-20 blowout loss on the national stage. The narratives after the game were outlandish, with people saying FSU shouldn't have been in the playoffs and using dumb terms like "game control." We haven't heard that term since.
So satisfying to see Oregon get absolutely boatraced exactly 10 yrs to the day FSU beat themselves playing them. Sorry, I'm petty like that pic.twitter.com/J6wAoyOO5v
— Kelvin Hunt (@khchopchat) January 1, 2025
I thought it was ironic that Oregon was undefeated going into the matchup against Ohio State exactly a decade to the day of the FSU/Oregon game, only to get destroyed for the entire game. FSU beat itself with five turnovers in the second half. Oregon simply got outclassed by Ohio State the entire game.
It was never competitive, but also why people shouldn't use one game to discredit what a team accomplished throughout the year. Hopefully, Oregon fans learned that lesson because they had a lot to say after that game.