re: the ramifications of the decision

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The ramification of the decision is something that was already in place: we are going from a 4-team playoff to a 12-team playoff.

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Que the "X deserves that 12 spot way more than Y" arguments. Also, people will really start bitching about their seeding and who gets the bye. People are going to bitch. That's how it is.

FSU joined the ACC because it was the easiest and most reliable path to a conference championship and a BCS Bowl appearance available to them at the time. It's a shite conference, that's why they joined. Bobby Bowden said publicly that winning takes care of recruiting and joining the ACC guaranteed a bunch of wins for FSU in an era where number of wins and margin of victory was a prime factor in BCS selections.

The strategy worked for them:
-They won the ACC the first 9 years they were in the conference -- in a row.
-They got two national titles in the 90s
-They lived in the top 10 for nearly 20 years -- never finished below 5th in the AP from 1991 - 2000.
-They played in the conference for almost three entire seasons before ever losing a conference game (UVA, 1995), then went another three years before losing another one (NC State, 1998), then three years again before losing their third conference game (UNC, 2001). They played almost an entire decade before losing a conference game at home (NC State, 2001).

But the chickens came home to roost this year. The Big 12 was shite too, but Texas is living off the victory in Tuscaloosa (in other words, they're in over FSU because Bama's in and they beat Bama).

The CFB world changed dramatically over the past five years or so and FSU's administration failed to put them in a position to compete for championships. It really does suck for the players and coaches because they had nothing to do with it in the present.