Unbelievable! Undefeated Florida State left out of College Football Playoff

CHARLOTTE — The Florida State Seminoles are 13-0 and won the ACC Championship despite playing with a third-string quarterback.

And yet the Seminoles won’t get the opportunity to compete for a national championship.

On Sunday afternoon, mere hours after wrapping up the ACC title with a suffocating 16-6 win over Louisville, the ‘Noles were not selected as one of four teams to compete in this year’s College Football Playoff. They were ranked No. 5.

The four teams to make it in are No. 1 Michigan, No. 2 Washington, No. 3 Texas and No. 4 Alabama.

Before this year, the CFP Selection Committee had never kept an undefeated Power 5 champion out of the playoff. Florida State is the first and only. The Seminoles were ranked No. 4 coming into this weekend.

The Seminoles apparently were left out due to the season-ending injury to QB Jordan Travis. Florida State had to win at The Swamp with backup quarterback Tate Rodemaker taking the snaps after Travis was lost for the season with a leg injury.

Then, on Saturday, Rodemaker was sidelined with a concussion and true freshman Brock Glenn had to play quarterback for the Seminoles. In an ACC Championship Game. With a perfect season and playoff berth on the line.

Florida State won anyway. Because the Florida State defense, like it has been all season but even more so the past two weeks, was sensational.

The Seminoles held a Louisville offense that had scored at least 30 points in eight games this season to just two field goals. They sacked quarterback Jack Plummer seven times. They had 14 tackles for loss.

And they held the Cardinals to negative-23 yards in the fourth quarter, a week after holding the Gators to negative yardage in the fourth quarter as well.

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