seems like there's always ebb and flow in life. A couple of things coincide, and you're on the outside looking in.
Multiple football and athletic department sources pointed to the aftermath following a snub from the College Football Playoff in 2023 as a dark cloud that never vanished. From there, seemingly everything went wrong. Transfer portal misevaluations. Poor high school recruiting and development. Being slow to increase its football spending. An inability to sign a game changer at quarterback. A vacuum in player leadership. Coaching staff hires that never meshed. Terrible injury luck.
With Ucla, it started with a make-up game, followed by an embarrassing bowl game loss. The rest is history.
For FSU, it started with a key injury and a snub, followed by an embarrassing bowl game loss. The rest is history.
I don't think that it's inevitable that FSU makes its way back to the top. It should be interesting to observe from afar.