Florida State is not eligible to participate in a bowl game this season, and yet, they will play in the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La. against Southern Mississippi Dec. 21.

According to college football insider Brett McMurphy, a Reddit user uncovered the Seminoles did not have enough bowl-eligible wins to earn a bid to a bowl this season.

FSU finished 6-6, but its win against FCS-member Delaware State should not have counted toward the Seminoles’ bowl eligibility. Delaware State did not have enough scholarship grants-in-aid over a two-year period, as required by NCAA bowl eligibility rules, leaving FSU with only five "bowl-eligible" wins. Reddit College Football first reported Delaware State did not meet the NCAA’s scholarship requirements to count toward bowl eligibility and verified that information with DSU. Reddit College Football first reported Delaware State did not meet the NCAA’s scholarship requirements to count toward bowl eligibility and verified that information with DSU.

What's worse is the oversight had to go through FSU, the ACC and the NCAA. Nothing can be changed now as the bowl game is less than a week away.

“This monumental error should have been caught at three levels: the school, conference and NCAA,” a bowl industry source told McMurphy. “It’s too late to do anything now, they’ll still play in the game. If it was funny, it would be a comedy of errors.”

Three bowl-eligible teams, Buffalo, UTSA, and Western Michigan did not receive bids partially because FSU got an invitation.

The teams were not happy to learn of the outcome, but one source was flabbergasted by how the situation even went down.

"FSU should have caught this," another source told McMurphy. "And it's complete incompetence on the part of the NCAA. It's their job to monitor this stuff."