How do you reconcile that argument with this one?

That was quite the signature win for Georgia Tech over FSU!

For this argument, when evaluating teams resumes, we get the advantage now of looking at how good teams actually turned out to be. The ranking at the time they played is meaningless.

Link: https://forum.uhnd.com/forum/index.php?action=viewall&forumid=6&msgid=562222