Hot take: Brees and 2000 Purdue would have ran train on that Jimbo coached Florida State team.
The Jimbo coached team that happened to be the defending National Champs . . .
2013 has to be one of the weirdest, shittiest years of college football ever. FSU beat an Auburn team for a tittle that should have lost to the Coug at home in their opener but gunslinging Connor Halliday threw some of the worst interceptions you've ever seen to linebackers covering no one. It was such a weird shitty year Sark won more than 7 games and got hired by USC.
No one was scared of that Florida State team that could have been like 7-5 to the point they were technically seeded below a team that had lost to RichRod and Arizona at home. All their best players other than Ramsey (who oddly had a terrible game) and Cook (who was a freshman fumbled like 9 times) were underwhelming pros at best.
Your argument that Purdue sucking before and after 2000 is great because Florida State was mediocre to bad for about 10 years before 2013/14 and after.
At least everyone here admits Purdue was a gimme game.