The Florida State Seminoles were not selected for the College Football Playoff this season despite an undefeated record and a conference championship. And head coach Mike Norvell was not happy about it.
Following the College Football Playoff committee’s controversial decision to put one-loss Alabama in the playoff field over undefeated Florida State, Mike Norvell made it clear just how difficult it was for him and his team.
“I was just hurt for our players to be honest with you,” Norvell said on Sunday according to On3. “It was one of the tougher moments I’ve had to experience just for all that they’ve done. You talk to a team about responding to adversity, getting up and going to give all that you can, to be able to find a way to win a college football game. Like Coach Smart said, it’s hard. It’s hard to do, especially when you face some of the adversities that we’ve had this year, whether it’s injury or different things to overcome. It’s all part of it.
“As we tell our team all the time, Your truest identity shows up in times of great adversity. We faced it. They put it on display. So that was really that feeling in the moment.”
Florida State will now have a chance to prove that it belonged in the field with a game against the Georgia Bulldogs in the Peach Bowl.
