While Florida State football just entered the back end of traditional polls for the first time since 2018, another metric for measuring season accomplishment has the Seminoles much higher. In fact, the Garnet and Gold can’t get any higher in ESPN’s Strength of Record, which measures the chance an average Top 25 team could accomplish a specific record with the exact schedule played so far by any given team.
In other words, instead of being a predictive tool (such as SP+) or a subjective opinion (such as the AP Poll), Strength of Record measures what a team has actually accomplished on the field where it matters most—wins and losses.