Florida State is still big mad about being left out of the College Football Playoff and they’re willing to burn the whole house down with their ire.
To be clear, FSU was hosed, and it’s hard not to feel bad about an undefeated Power Five champion getting excluded from competing for a national title. Yet it also doesn’t make a ton of sense to try to leave a very winnable Atlantic Coast Conference right when the playoff field is about to expand to 12 teams.
Nevertheless, the brass at Florida State want out — and it’s not exactly clear where they’d go— but the school feels the ACC is holding its athletic department back.
The latest step in that process was a board of trustees meeting on Friday where the school’s power brokers revealed stunning findings about the ACC’s Grant of Rights (the legally binding transfer of a school’s media rights of their home games to the conference for a set period), leading trustees to vote in favor of challenging the conference in court.
Here are the biggest things we learned: