The 2018 Clemson football team is one of the best in the history of CFB, but many Florida State fans are still caught up in hypotheticals.
The ACC Network posted a fun topic comparing the 2018 Clemson football team with the 2013 Florida State team.
The network asked fans which team they think would win if the two matched up on a field. Of course, fans from both sides weighed in with their thoughts.
Though many Clemson football fans expressed their opinions on why the 2018 Tigers would come away with the victory, a more unprecedented number of Seminole fans decided to weigh in.
Many FSU fans didn’t just believe that the Seminoles would win, but that the Jameis Winston-led FSU team would beat the 2018 Clemson football team by three scores or more.
FSU by 50
— TRAVIS PORTER IS HIM 🇯🇲 (@AQuariusKiLLa91) July 16, 2019
Highest scoring offense in CFB history ✅
— TheRealDBU (@FlawdaState247) July 16, 2019
Average margin of victory: 39.5 points ✅
Every starter on both sides of the ball drafted ✅
That's called "too much talent" pic.twitter.com/ONqyPiEnnE
Famous Jameis mic drop
— NOLES2001 (@Nolerrific) July 16, 2019
FSU hands down. 13’ NOLES would blow Clemson out. 13’ NOLES because they are more talented then 18’ Clemson hands down
— CJ Lizza (@cj_l1zza) July 16, 2019
This is not even close.. #NolesAllDay
— Brett Weeks (@BWeeks01) July 16, 2019
https://twitter.com/rolltribe1987/status/1151124207625003009?s=21
Thoughts:
Though it’s just friendly bantering, it is interesting how so many Florida State football fans want to live in the past. Many of them romanticize that 2013 team and act as if it were unbeatable. Yes, the team did go on to go undefeated. But, they did have to come-from-behind to beat Auburn in that 2014 National Championship game.
It’s fine to say that you believe your team would win, but you’re taking it a bit too far if you believe that the 2013 team would ‘curb stomp’ the 2018 Clemson football team.
Many Seminole fans cite the NFL talent that 2013 team possessed, but they forget that Clemson just had its entire defensive line drafted including three first-round picks. The Tigers also have a future No. 1 overall pick at QB, the nation’s best running back and a plethora of talented wide receivers mixed with an experienced offensive line.
Yes, that 2013 FSU team was dominant. As a matter of fact, they were more dominant than Clemson was in the regular season, but they weren’t invincible by any stretch of the imagination. If you think they’d beat last year’s Tiger team by multiple touchdowns, you obviously didn’t watch Clemson play in the postseason. Dabo Swinney has his team ready when it counts and is way better than Jimbo Fisher ever has been at building depth.
It’s better to get out of hypotheticals and focus on the here and now, but that’s obviously tough for Florida State fans to do right now considering the state of the program compared to where it was just a few years ago.