Florida State gets the cream of the nation's high school football crop every year. All they really have to do is keep the best players in Florida from leaving the state. Then, the cream of the rest of the nation knows where the best team will be every year, and with a few well placed out of state scholarships, the Seminoles round out their team. To make matters worse for the rest of the nation, Florida State doesn't have to play a brutal schedule week after week. The ACC has long been known as the top hoops conference in the country.
Football is another story.
Once in awhile, one of the ACC teams competes admirably, but usually FSU is it. Their non conference games do provide Florida State with good tests. Florida, and sometimes Miami give them their best battles. Last night, Chris Weinke didn't look that great, and there didn't seem to be a game breaking runner, or receiver. Those defensive ends, and linebackers were awfully good though.