I will say it for the hundredth time. FSU is the only power five schools that has to go undefeated to have any chance at all of making the playoff. All this is collateral damage from the SEC hype machine coupled with lazy sports journalists who parrot the line that the ACC isn't any good. Therefore we need FSU to stay undefeated to force at least one SEC team out of the playoffs and to preserve credibility for the conference.
The only exception to this rule is if Tech plays in the ACC championship in which case the hell with fsu.