How did the bottom fall out so quickly at Florida State?

A few years after winning three consecutive ACC titles and a national championship, the Seminoles have turned in an average on-field product. Now Willie Taggart is trying to rebuild the program and re-establish a winning culture, a task that seems more daunting than he initially anticipated. FSU is a combined 12-13 the past two seasons, and it's difficult to pinpoint the exact start of the decline.

Going back through past classes to determine each group's impact at FSU could be a helpful exercise in getting a better understanding of reasons for the recent struggles. This is something we did a couple offseasons ago with previous classes (2010, 2012, 2013), and we'll return to the series to look at more recent classes that comprised the most recent on-field products at FSU. We'll start back up with the 2015 class, which was considered an elite grouping of local star power at the time.

We organized each class into six groups, with explanations of each grouping listed at the bottom of the story. The categories are fluid for classes that still have players currently on the roster.