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Reddit user discovers Florida State shouldn't have been eligible for a bowl game

A little-known rule should have kept Florida State out of a bowl game this year.
  • A Reddit user found that due to a specific rule regarding wins that can count towards bowl eligibility, Florida State technically should not have made a bowl game this season.
  • Had the NCAA noticed the error in time, FSU would not have been designated as bowl eligible, and their streak of 35 consecutive bowl appearances — the longest such streak in college football — would have come to an end.
  • Instead, because the error was not caught in time, the Seminoles will keep the streak alive, playing Southern Mississippi in the Independence Bowl.

Starting the season as the third-ranked team in the nation, Florida State has had a nightmare year. Starting quarterback Deondre Francois went down with a season-ending injury in their first game and the team never really recovered.

Still, the Seminoles were able to win four of their last five games to finish the season at 6-6 and become bowl eligible.

Or so they thought.

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While Florida State will still play in the Independence Bowl against Southern Mississippi, it turns out that the team never should have been invited in the first place. As Reddit user bakonydraco explained in a detailed post, Florida State's win over Delaware State should not have counted towards their bowl eligibility according to NCAA rules.

Delaware State is an FCS school, and NCAA rules state that an FBS team's win over an FCS school can only count towards their bowl eligibility if that FCS school

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