At 12:28 on Sunday afternoon, the bottom fell out.
The Florida State Seminoles met every metric designed by the CFP committee but were denied the right to compete for a national championship. The first feelings were shock, followed by anger, and later on in the day, sadness ensued. This is the strip-down version of the stages of grief ‘Nole Nation finds itself in on a gloomy, rainy day in Tallahassee.
Truthfully, however, we all should have seen this coming.
The campaign against the Seminoles began before the season started. Pundits everywhere anointed LSU a ticket to the playoff and that FSU would start the year with a losing record.