TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In Willie Taggart’s first season as coach, Florida State is in real danger of having two noteworthy achievements come to an end: its NCAA-record streak of 36 consecutive bowl appearances and its 41 consecutive winning seasons (one off the NCAA record).



Florida State is 4-6 and finishes the regular season against No. 20 Boston College (7-3) on Saturday and No. 13 Florida (7-3) on Nov. 24. Both games are at home, but that doesn’t seem likely to produce enough of an advantage.



With all the angst shown by current and former players, coaches and fans about the possibility of missing out on the postseason, you’d think the last FSU team that missed a bowl game — the 1981 squad — would be embarrassed by its status in the program’s history. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Part of that is where FSU was a program then; another part is the death march of a schedule that the Seminoles...