Florida State wants out of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
And they’re willing to go to legal war to do it (Florida State has sued the ACC, setting the stage for a fight to leave over revenue concerns | AP News).
The Seminoles finally woke up and smelled the coffee this week.
Who knows what woke them up? Maybe it was the fact that – hmm, they missed the College Football Playoff? And that it was their own freaking commissioner, Jim Phillips, who was trying to (laughably) punish, LOL, the Southeastern Conference for accepting Texas and Oklahoma last year?
That’s right. As has been discussed before on this site, Phillips united with the Big Ten and the Pac-12 to postpone the College Football Playoff expansion to 12 teams to 2024. It would have gone to 12 teams THIS YEAR had it not been for Phillips and his crew.
So ironically, it ended up punishing Florida State, almost like something out of pro wrestling.
Read more about this today in Joe Hale’s column, From The Press Box.
By the way, for the record, Florida State University President Richard McCollough said this was not a reaction to the Seminoles’ football program missing the CFP.
“This is not a reaction, but something we’ve done a lot of due diligence on,” he said.
Wink, wink.
And then the VERY FIRST SENTENCE of Florida State’s claim reads this way: The first sentence of Florida State’s claim is: “The stunning exclusion of the ACC’s undefeated football champion from the 2023-2024 College Football Playoff in deference to two one-loss teams from two competing Power Four conferences crystalized the years of failures by the ACC to fulfill its most fundamental commitments to FLORIDA STATE and its members.”
FSU has been a member of the ACC since 1993.
