So now it has come to this. If you can’t join ’em, wreck ’em.

Welcome to Florida State’s winter of discontent, everyone.

In a little over a month, the FSU timeline has devolved from a crushing injury, to an insulting Playoff snub, to burning the ships — and everything and everyone in its path.

So while the football team continues to win — FSU, in case anyone cares, has won 19 consecutive games — the administration is ready to blow up college football. No matter the collateral damage.

Really, they’re serious this time. Double-dog serious.

The FSU Board of Trustees will hold a meeting Friday to reportedly discuss moving forward with a plan to sue the ACC and gain its release from the Grant of Rights handcuffs. You know, the same thing they threatened to do last summer.

FSU wants out of the GOR so it can pay a $120 million exit fee to the ACC, leave the conference, and go … where?

And here’s where the rubber meets the scorched Earth the Noles are contemplating.

Because FSU either has a double-secret deal with the Big Ten for admission if it can gain release from the ACC — and would you really doubt it after the Big Ten/Fox double dirty on the Pac-12? — or this is one massive bluff intended to accomplish one thing, and one thing only.

College football consolidation.

Before we get into that heavy lift of destabilizing the ACC to force a new breakaway league of 50-60 teams that have the financially wherewithal to form a new league and pay players, let’s eliminate the obvious.

The SEC isn’t adding Florida State, for any number of reasons — but at the top, its relationship with media rights partner ESPN.

You’re a few shy of crazy if you think ESPN, out of the goodness of its heart and during some stressful financial times for the network, is going to pay the SEC more than pro rata (because that’s what it would take for the SEC to add FSU) for a school that blew up a conference — where ESPN had a golden goose of a deal until 2036.

To say nothing of Florida, a flagship SEC member of considerable weight, blocking the add, anyway. There’s a gigantic difference between Texas A&M complaining about adding Texas, and Florida drawing a line in the sand about FSU.

So that leaves FSU with the Big Ten, whose presidents already aren’t happy about moving to 18 teams in 2024 — but did so because once Captain Spring Football (see: former commissioner Kevin Warren) lit the expansion fuse with USC and UCLA to counter the SEC’s addition of Texas and Oklahoma (how very Khrushchevian of him), there was no going back.

New Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti got Oregon and Washington on the cheap for an estimated $30 million annually over the next 7 years, with the promise of more money down the road.

Then there’s the 1 teeny-weeny side note that shouldn’t be forgotten: FSU isn’t a member of the American Association of Universities, an elite organization of research universities the Big Ten touts as the be-all, end-all. All but 1 of the 18 Big Ten schools are members of the AAU — and Nebraska, kicked out of the AAU in 2011 because of federal research funding, is desperately trying to get back in.

And you tinfoil hat folks really think FSU “has a deal” with the Big Ten already on the books?

So FSU is going to pay $120 million to leave the ACC, to wreck a conference and burn bridges with television partners, and walk away from a guaranteed $42-45 million annually from the ACC (or more, depending on the new merit-based payout), with the idea that someone, somewhere will give it a home?

I sure hope Petitti has convinced Big Ten presidents — which just added 4 powerhouse sports programs on the far West Coast — to suck it up and now add a southern school that doesn’t fit academically. And make those 4, and everyone else in the Big Ten, travel to FSU to play volleyball.

It’s utterly absurd, of course, but it’s the winter of discontent.

FSU has to do something.

They can’t simply sit by and watch the mean men and women on the Playoff committee have the audacity to think there are 4 teams better than FSU without its starting quarterback. Who cares if they knew the rules prior — it’s the 4 best teams, not most deserving — they want answers.

They want to know why, for the first time in the history of the Playoff, an unbeaten Power 5 team was left out of the show? Never mind that Georgia — the first No. 1 team in Playoff history to drop out of the 4-team field on the final week after a loss — isn’t sideways about its ranking.

FSU was undefeated! That has to mean something!

It meant a No. 3 spot in the final 2014 Playoff rankings, behind 1-loss Alabama and 1-loss Oregon. As the defending national champion.

I’m sensing a theme here, and it begins and ends with the Playoff committee doesn’t respect the football played in the ACC.

For the last time, everyone: The Playoff ranking is an opinion. It doesn’t matter what the Florida Governor or Florida U.S. Senator says, or the Florida Attorney General threatens.

It’s an opinion — you know, free speech?

There wasn’t “collusion” to add Alabama instead of Florida State. There wasn’t an “SEC bias,” which fits somewhere in the stratosphere of fandom crazy with a “West Coast bias.”

The committee saw a team that unfortunately lost its best player — who plays the most important position on the field — and felt Alabama was the better team. Especially after it beat the number-freaking-one team in the land on Championship Weekend.

So now that it’s clear there is no fight with the Playoff — no matter the political grandstanding — FSU has decided to reignite it’s fight with the ACC.

There better be a deal with the Big Ten waiting in the wings — despite all the inherent obstacles of it happening. Or FSU will find itself staring at less money and more travel.

In the Big 12.

Minus $120 million for the effort.