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CFB expert says FSU would “shut out” Michigan State football in 2013

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Michigan State football had one of the best teams in the nation in 2013, but one expert believes Florida State would shut them out.

It’s the middle of summer with no college football action for another two months and that means just one thing: it’s time for mindless debates that seem to pop up out of nowhere and there’s never a winner. And just like that, Michigan State football is in the middle of one of those mindless debates.

On Tuesday, a college football fan account posted a highlight video of all of the pass interference calls made in that 2013 Michigan State vs. Notre Dame game. I know, I don’t want to think about it either. A Michigan State fan page quote tweeted it with “want to see MSU get robbed of a national championship in 3 minutes?”

To which it set off a national college football analyst who thought it was crazy to believe that the nation’s No. 3 team that year would’ve had a chance against Florida State.

Bud Elliott of 247Sports and CBS Sports went on a rant about how he had no idea that the group of Michigan State fans that believed their elite 2013 team could have won a national title. He basically said that the Spartans stood no chance.

In his rant, he went on to say that Florida State had one of the best offenses of all time led by Jameis Winston and had all 11 defensive starters drafted. He went on to say the Seminoles beat Auburn in the title game despite the Tigers having Florida State’s signals through the first 25 minutes.

Elliott also claimed that Michigan State fans are proof that everyone will talk themselves into believing their team will win the national title in an expanded playoff.

But he fails to realize that the Michigan State team he’s pretty much downplaying here went 13-1 and was a few bad pass interference calls away from 13-0 and playing for a national title. To say they didn’t stand a chance is asinine.

Even further, he claims Michigan State would get shut out and if he were Vegas in 2013 and that game was for the title, he would set the line at Florida State -17. He ultimately predicted a hypothetical 27-0 thrashing.

I get it, it’s the easy thing to say that a really good Florida State team that actually won the title would wipe the floor with a team that didn’t make it. But Michigan State was really good defensively that year. Elliott cited that Florida State had the better defense so it would blank the Spartans but Michigan State was No. 3 in the S&P+ defensive rankings, just behind the No. 2 Seminoles.

As for the offense that he claimed was the highest-scoring ever, the Seminoles had the No. 10 scoring offense in the country that year while the Spartans beat the Nos. 21 and 28 scoring offenses by double figures. To claim that Michigan State’s stingy defense would stand no chance is laughable.

Justin Spiro’s sarcasm-filled rebuttal was the perfect response to the nonsense.

Michigan State football beat the No. 2 offense in the S&P+ by double figures but yet Elliott says that Florida State would have its way with the Spartans.

Make it make sense.

And just like that, I roped you all into a pointless offseason debate that dubs no winners. We are all losers for arguing over this 10-year-old narrative.

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Writer, co-owner of Spartan Shadows. Michigan State and college football expert at FanSided and formerly of The Detroit News. Expert on all things Michigan State. Connor Muldowney has written about Michigan State since graduating from the university with a degree in journalism back in 2013. Ten years of experience as a Michigan State writer/reporter.

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