A proud, loud fan base never disappears. It just occasionally goes dormant.
The college football universe went without the chestiness of fully confident, fully engaged Florida State fans for a few years. The Seminoles won the 2013 national title and reached the inaugural College Football Playoff in 2014, but they slid to a top-15 level in 2015 and '16, then collapsed. A burned-out Jimbo Fisher left after 2017, and Willie Taggart and Mike Norvell combined to go just 19-27 over the next four seasons.