FSU didn't look that great all year and had their season saved thanks to Clemson using a former walk-on, grad student, as their kicker who shanked a 30 yarder when the pressure was on.
They also had close wins against fairly average teams.
5-7 Florida Team 9 point win after being behind halfway through the 4th quarter. A team Georgia beat by 23
7-5 Miami Team 7 point win
The Bama, Texas, and Georgia dynamic is interesting. Had Georgia won last night, I think Texas would have been left out and it would have been Georgia, Michigan, Washington, FSU. But that loss flipped all sorts of things and made Texas have a bigger win, which made Bama's only loss an even stronger loss.
Unfortunately this was a year where who you played and how you beat them mattered.