The 2023 undefeated ACC Champion, the Florida State football team, getting left out of the College Football Playoff is one of the biggest injustices in recent memory. It’s not even close, and it was unprecedented, yet we have some cornball media guys out here talking like it never happened.
How can any media members realistically believe Miami not making the College Football Playoff is THE first time a team has been personally wronged?
Here’s the thing. Miami has TWO losses and might not even make the ACC Championship game. If they lose to Pittsburgh this weekend, it won’t even matter.
This is the first time in 11 years of covering this that I feel like a team is being personally wronged by the committee. pic.twitter.com/PL8LSNSJsl
— Ari Wasserman (@AriWasserman) November 26, 2025
It’s not like it’s the first time two teams played a game earlier in the year, and the losing team is ranked above the team they lost to. By that measure, Alabama shouldn’t be ranked ahead of FSU right now since they lost CONVINCINGLY in the season opener. Miami needed a field goal at the end of the game to beat Notre Dame.
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Notre Dame has looked much more impressive since the two losses earlier in the year than Miami. Yes, head-to-head matchups should matter, but it’s not like they just played the game last week.
FSU, on the other hand, never lost and beat a ranked Louisville team in the ACC championship game by double digits and STILL got left out of the College Football Playoffs. It was a team that deserved to be in, and these two guys are arguing about a team that already has two losses and might not even play for the conference championship in a year where the ACC is the worst it’s been.
Stop with the continued disrespect of the 2023 FSU football team. There's no way that 2025 Miami getting left out of the College Football Playoffs is worse than what happened to FSU in 2023.