re: FSU coach's words coming back to haunt FSU.

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This would have been at least twenty years ago.

And if you look at who typically wins the national championship, you can see he was wrong.

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He was right in the nineties, before the BCS, when he could easily go undefeated in a weak conference and be highly ranked in the polls. When FSU won the national championship in 1999, #17 Georgia Tech was the only other ACC team ranked at the end of the season. In 1993, the only other ranked ACC teams were #19 UNC and #23 Clemson.

And in the beginning years of the playoff era, Clemson proved him to still be right...one team can continually dominate that conference much more easily.