Official Game Thread, Week 13: #11 Florida Gators vs FSU Seminoles - Nov 24, 2018

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The #13 Florida Gators take on the Florida State Seminoles in the Sunshine State Showdown this Saturday at noon (Eastern Time) at Ron Zook Field in Tallcrappy, Florida. The Gators are somehow favored by 4 points over that dumpster fire of a prison football team. Florida leads the series 34-26-2 all-time, but is 0-5 with shitty coaches these past few years. Florida can end FSU's season with a victory, and end their 41-year streak of cheating in order to preserve their bowl game streak. Dan Mullen has already done wonders with this team, but losing to FSU one more fucking time will likely lose him about 10,000 fans in the Swamp next year.

If this game comes down to the quarterbacks, Feleipe Franks actually holds an edge!

Passing:

• Feleipe Franks: 58.2%, 7.44 Y/A, 20 TD, 6 INT, rating 140.5
• Deondre Francois: 58.0%, 7.02 Y/A, 14 TD, 10 INT, rating 124.2

Rushing:

• Feleipe Franks: 84 att, 230 yds, 6 TD
• Deandre Francois: 67 att, -25 yds, 2 TD

In most other statistical categories, UF holds an edge over FSU.

Escambia94 said:

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The #13 Florida Gators take on the Florida State Seminoles in the Sunshine State Showdown this Saturday at noon (Eastern Time) at Ron Zook Field in Tallcrappy, Florida. The Gators are somehow favored by 4 points over that dumpster fire of a prison football team. Florida leads the series 34-26-2 all-time, but is 0-5 with shitty coaches these past few years. Florida can end FSU's season with a victory, and end their 41-year streak of cheating in order to preserve their bowl game streak. Dan Mullen has already done wonders with this team, but losing to FSU one more fucking time will likely lose him about 10,000 fans in the Swamp next year.

If this game comes down to the quarterbacks, Feleipe Franks actually holds an edge!

Passing:

• Feleipe Franks: 58.2%, 7.44 Y/A, 20 TD, 6 INT, rating 140.5
• Deondre Francois: 58.0%, 7.02 Y/A, 14 TD, 10 INT, rating 124.2

Rushing:

• Feleipe Franks: 84 att, 230 yds, 6 TD
• Deandre Francois: 67 att, -25 yds, 2 TD

In most other statistical categories, UF holds an edge over FSU.

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Hahahahaha...
What's there to add?
You've outdone yourself here, brother!
THANKYOU.

They got this, just hope Franks throws to the Gator receivers and now the other guys this season.

The Gators move up two spots into the #11 position in the CFP rankings!

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They got this, just hope Franks throws to the Gator receivers and now the other guys this season.

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I mean, I had to laugh--and then thought, "You got THAT right!"

Escambia94 said:

The Gators move up two spots into the #11 position in the CFP rankings!

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I don't know...I am not superstitious in any other area but this one: When it comes to the fortunes of and pride in our beloved team (and by extension those of the great school we were so fortunate to attend), I am a complete, unscientific primitive. Perhaps it is the lack of any direct control over what happens out there, the chaos of uncountable possibilities, unknowable outcomes, our utter helplessness to do more than watch, support them, show up and loudly cheer them on if it is within our power to do so.
Having said ALL that, I suppose it is the aforementioned realization of (and frustration AT) helplessness, plus my undeniable tendency to see (and worry about) all the potential pitfalls, that invariably lead to a growing FEAR of confidence: The more "GOOD NEWS" we get, the more seeming evidence of our chances for success in advance of an important game, the more nervous I get about its actual outcome.
That goes DOUBLE for ANY FSU game: When it occurs, always the final game of each teams' regular season, somehow ALWAYS meaningful--regardless of records or anything else, so much is riding on it. If this one has little national significance THIS time (whereas in the past it has so often fundamentally affected the post-season line up), both teams DO have plenty "local/regional" to play for--and ALWAYS there are the personal ties, bonds and confrontations: A lot of these young men have been aware of each other at the very least, even competed on the field for the same eventual rewards and chances at scholarships in the State of Florida--and all that even BEFORE they ended up butting heads (literally and/or figuratively) in these very games. For seniors this can be the 4th time they do this. For alot of us alumni it all goes back that much further--back to our neighborhoods, kids we played with, saw everyday, eventually going our separate ways; fundamentally different choices made, roads taken...
Anyway, excuse me if I seem worried to the point of pessimism, yet the very fact we can do so little to affect outcomes in these games that mean so much in every way has always affected me this way. The more everyone is loudly positive, the more dark concern fills me with foreboding.
Don't worry: Over the years I have been unable to find ANY solid connection between the depth of MY feelings and the actual victor. The more confidence our fans express, the more worried I get--but that feeling is NOT reflected in the ongoing won/loss record between us (of course--lol).
It is just something I must endure, I suppose: The more that is riding on the game, and reasons I perceive that we should win it, the worse my growing dread until it is in fact decided.
Sucks, really. I SEE the fallacy of my self-created conundrum, yet somehow cannot shake it. Every year, "Here it is again!" Last year it wasn't SO bad because so little was expected of us by then, in particular.
Talk about a "no win scenario".
No. I can't just shut it off (I've tried), so I accept its recurrance each end-of-season, face it and endure. The best cure:
Gator Victory.
GO GATORS!!!

Are y'all hearing about this?
It began among their loud-mouthed idiot fans on Twitter, etc, and among the local media in Tallahassee: the usual "WE BEAT BC: WE ARE THE GREATEST!!!" drivel
...But now come public declarations from multiple team members that, with their oh so convincing last-second win over that juggernaut Boston College--themselves led by that inspiring dunderhead, The Dazed One, who (in this time breathtakingly incompetent manner ) managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory once again--failing to send safeties deep to defend the Hail Mary on the last play of the game--and based on their suddenly swell-headed and giddy over-estimation of their own supposed briliance in this one lucky instance, the Criminole players are now crowing loudly and GUARANTEEING VICTORY OVER US THIS SATURDAY.
They are proclaiming this far and wide:
I'd sure like to THINK our Coach wouldn't have needed much in the way of "bulletin board material" as motivation here anyway--but this begs noting, at the very least: Nothing too much, no Knute Rockny stuff...just a mention at most.
Maybe not even that. Whatever it takes, at minimum a mention bringing them together, on the same page before taking the field: We have EVERY reason, more than EVER now, to go out there and together, in perfect, complete and undeniable fashion, announce OUR resurgence by KICKING THEIR EVERLOVIN' ARROGANT BUTTS!!!
Finally and for the first time in years, I feel the anger surging in and driving OFF that dread I mentioned earlier. It can do that for us all--not just those among the fans who like me have seen too much failure and disappointment in the last decade, but the TEAM as well, too often distracted by concerns for their future personal careers at the very time when their personal performance and success depends on them COMING TOGETHER:
We've seen what a little anger has done for our starting Quarterback's performance...I believe it is time for us all to similarly "get a little pissed!"
To do it in front of their fans would be perfect: Shut 'em up, then send 'em home early. I can only IMAGINE how good our own "crowing" might feel, in the aftermath.

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Back to bummer-reality...
The one thing that bothers me, continues to gnaw at the back of my mind is this:
Never mind that glorified scrimmage LAST week, in the 3 weeks prior to that our team got blown out TWICE (although it could be argued that we REALLY lost to the same team, Georgia, TWICE--that our shockingly meek surrender to the 'Dogs in Jacksonville was still eating at this team the following week against a Mizzou squad that was peaking, sure--but ISN'T measurably more talented than us, certainly not THAT much more-talented), then had to (finally) wake up and rally to beat a Muschamp-coached Gamecocks team that (in true Muschamp-led style) more or less WAITED for us to do so in the 4th quarter! THEN came that hardly-challenging blow-out last week; to give much credence to THAT win is to give credence to (for example) the whole UCF SCHEDULE these last coupla years!
Now, FSU looked pretty damn miserable most of the season before last week's last second 1-point win--and though exciting for them and their fans, it WAS against a proven-mediocre BC Eagles squad coached by Addazio, after all: He and his similarly "unclear on the concept"-staff went ahead and actually played "tight man-to-man coverage" on the last, KEY play of the game, where ONLY a LONG TOUCHDOWN PASS could beat them, at that point.
Considering the relative talent and speed of the two teams, the only way the Eagles "braintrust" have could have better gift-wrapped a Seminole "miracle" was if they simply took their defense off the field ENTIRELY.
It was painfully ridiculous to watch--but HAS led to this sudden huge resurgence in "Seminole: Team of Destiny" yelling and chest-thumping that has somehow caught the ear of some media prognosticators, apparently: A number of them are now picking the Noles to beat us outright, never mind the 6-points Vegas has us favored by.
Now, I checked, and at least in the case of the four writers I bothered to follow up on who now pick FSU to beat us, only ONE of them has even a flat-EVEN record for such "Underdog of the Week" picks this season: the rest have been WRONG more often than right this season so far.
So at least THAT part of what's bothering me I SHOULD ignore. But fact still remains:
It is hard to draw much solace from our actual record-of-play last few weeks.
In the end, I just don't have ANY IDEA what we'll see come Saturday. We are going to their place, they are truly juiced up and FULL of old-style SEMINOLE CERTAINTY that they are gonna whip us, and their fans in one WEEK have gone from depressed and moribund to wildly optimistic--So we can expect a rockin' loud 1st quarter with lots of that damned whiney "chop cheer"-tune.
We will TAKE ANY kind of win, obviously, but I would really appreciate, would cheer loud and long if we could just take control early and then put this one away:
"DRIVE A STAKE THROUGH THEIR HEARTS, GUYS!"
I mean that.

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Escambia94 said:

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YES! I remember!
And that is EXACTLY the sort of team, and resulting relative difference manifested on the field between us and them, that Dan Mullen aims to restore in Gainesville now.
It looks like he may well have some of the parts already in there and developing...
I hope to see more and more of Toney getting the ball more and more often and in more and more varied ways, for example (I'm not the first or ONLY Gator fan who noticed the similar-to-Percy "something out of nothing" crazy creativity in this young man from the first moment we saw him on the field).
And judging by the introduction of a few other freshmen last week, there are others already here as well. The future is bright indeed.
For now though, THIS season's supposed "success", certainly our PLEASURE in it, is still in the balance--depending on what happens the rest of the way, starting with (and especially riding ON) what happens tomorrow in Tallahassee.
Does "The Future" start there, Saturday, or are we to be left still uncertain, waiting til NEXT YEAR to find out, again?

The depth charts for the game hint at a healthy team with a good mix of upperclassmen and underclassmen who will be motivated to win this game in the Erector Set at Ron Zook Field.

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The depth charts for the game hint at a healthy team with a good mix of upperclassmen and underclassmen who will be motivated to win this game in the Erector Set at Ron Zook Field.

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...and it ISN'T so much the actual outcome you hint at that is the main reason for my "Like" in this particular case, E--:
It is the manner in which you set up the "solid facts" of our personnel as your evidence, submitted to support your claim.
God, I hope your conclusions are sound and accurate!