If college football were a cartoon, there would've been a moment last December, just after the committee snubbed an undefeated Florida State team from the playoff, when Mike Norvell would've concluded this was as bad as things could get, all while unknowingly standing beneath a piano perilously being lifted up to a 20th-floor window.
Of course, after Florida State fell to Norvell's former school, Memphis, 20-12 on Saturday, it's entirely possible the Seminoles would prefer the piano to reality.
Nine months ago, Florida State had the world's sympathy -- at least the parts of the world that don't chant "S-E-C, S-E-C" at weddings, funerals and children's parties.