- 9/3 - FINALVT
FSU24
3 - 9/8 - FINALSamford
FSU26
36 - 9/15 - FINALFSU
Syracuse7
30 - 9/22 - FINALNIU
FSU19
37 - 9/29 - FINALFSU
Louisville28
24 - 10/6 - FINALFSU
Miami27
28 - 10/20 - FINALWF
FSU17
38 - 10/27 - FINALClemson
FSU59
10 - 11/3 - FINALFSU
NCSU28
47 - 11/10 - FINALFSU
ND13
42 - 11/17 - FINALBC
FSU21
22 - 11/24 - FINALUF
FSU41
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- Hear The Spear: Greg Frey’s firing, Randy Clements to FSU, ‘Noles Athletics
- Recap of FSU Athletics’ weekend
- Breaking News: Randy Clements to FSU
- Landon Dickerson no longer in the Transfer Portal
- Source: Another Assistant Out at Florida State
- Report: UVA grad-transfer OL to visit FSU
- How likely is it for Jordan Travis to get a waiver from the NCAA?
- Report: Transfer quarterback visiting FSU in March
- FSU Baseball 2019 Season Preview
- Report: Landon Dickerson enters transfer portal

Florida is the Best Team in The Worst Power-5 Division
- Updated: November 24, 2015
According to Football Perspective (@fbgchase), the SEC East is now the worst rated division out of all the power-5 conferences.
The SEC West is the best division among the Power 5 schools. The worst? The SEC East pic.twitter.com/ZNQyHk6H8W
— Football Perspective (@fbgchase) November 22, 2015
Key: TMs=Teams, SOS= Stength of Schedule, MOV=Margin of Victory, SRS=Simple Ranking System
It is important to note that SRS is better used to predict games, rather than recollect a team’s past. The SRS ranking can tell you that Team A is that many points better than Team B. Since Florida is at the top of the SEC East, they are obviously above the average SRS for the division. The Gator’s SRS after week 12 is 50.7, good for 20th nationally. However, they do not rank first in the SEC East based on SRS. In fact, 7-4 Tennessee leads the division with a SRS of 51.8, good for 17th nationally. Strength of schedule plays a large part on why Tennessee is ahead of Florida. Using SRS, Tennessee is a point better than Florida. When the two played back in September, Florida won 28-27 off of a miracle 4th and 14 touchdown pass late in the fourth quarter. If the two were to play again, SRS says Tennessee would win by a point.
Now comes the fun part. Florida State’s SRS is 54.4, which ranks 10th nationally. The ‘Noles SOS is 40.6, which is slightly higher than the Gators which is 38.7. Not much to read into based on SOS, because the numbers are very even. The only real takeaway is that the two fan bases should stop bashing each others SOS because it is so even. But when you look at SRS, FSU is nearly four points better than Florida. Utilizing SRS as a predictor, FSU would win by three or four points. This reflects the Vegas line, which originally favored the Gators but has since moved the line to -2 favoring Florida State. The reason Florida State has the advantage based on numbers is because it has faced much better defenses than Florida has, including Boston College’s number one ranked defense. In what should be a very defensive-oriented game, the ‘Noles offense will have a slight edge. The top two defenses the ‘Noles have faced this year (Boston College and Clemson) were both on the road. Come Saturday, FSU faces yet another good defense away from home. This is shaping up to be a real close ball game in the Swamp.
(Thanks to Football Perspective for the Stats and charts. A better explanation of SRS can be found here.)
