IF you are going to ask what type of team was fsu with francios, the answer isn't #3 team, it's lsu/msu type team (8-9 wins and maybe ranked). the answer without francois is obviously 5-6 also ran. but that's also not the team bama played, so...
should that be considered?
in my opinion, absolutely. I've said it before, even without Francios, FSU has the talent to beat anyone in the nation on a given night. Utah St, BYU, FAU don't if your comparing Wisconsin. The crap that Washington usually schedules doesn't have that ability. TCU's schedule of Jacksonville st, Arkansas, SMU is crap. USC and Miami both played ND, Clemson played Auburn, OU played Ohio State, Georgia played ND and Ga Tech.
You can't control you conference schedule, but you can control your OOC schedule. Every team has the ability to schedule, if you can't get a top 15 program, you can at least get 2 if not 3 power 5 schools, or 2 power 5 and legitimate school from a non power 5 like Houston, Navy, ND, Memphis, Cincinnati (not this year), UCF, etc
I don't write off the win vs FSU, I would consider it a quality win.