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OGT 2024: Week 9 Bye Week

Escambia94

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Good news! The Florida Gators will once again not lose this weekend! This would be a good time to look back at preseason predictions and see how far the Gators have progressed or regressed in the first quarter of the season compared to the competition.

The Gators might be improving due to increased playing time from explosive youngsters on offense and defense, or Kentucky is a crap team that Florida should beat and the Gators looked it for the first time in four years. With the exception of FSU, the remainder of the schedule will feature teams ranked in the top 15:
vs #5 UGA
at #2 UTx
vs #13 LSU
vs #12 Ole Miss
at FSU

Billy Napier is still on the hot seat despite a nice win against Kentucky. Remember that this time last year before the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party the Gators were 5-2 with a ranked win over #11 Tennessee. Remember that Florida went 0-5 for the remainder of the season including inexplicable losses to Arkansas and Missouri. Napier is currently 55-29 (65.5%) overall, 15-17 (46.9%) at Florida. He is 11-2 (84.6%0 against sub-0.500 teams, but only 8-12 (40.0%) against above-0.500 teams. He is only 1-9 (10.0%) against rivals Tennessee, FSU. Miami, LSU). I refuse to remove Napier from the hot seat until he beats some teams that he is not supposed to beat.


Wk 1Wk 2Wk 3Wk 4Wk 5Wk 6Wk 7Wk 8Wk 9
Florida10.1 (5.7 wins)4.4 (3.4 wins)4.4 (3.6 wins)3.4 (3.1 wins)5.6 (3.9 wins)5.4 (4.0 wins)7.2 (4.8 wins)8.7 (5.0 wins)11.3 (5.6 wins)
Miami9.615.514.317.920.417.917.717.718.3
Samford-15.0-15.0-15.0-15.0-15.0-15.0-15.0-15.0-15.0
Texas A&M13.611.310.813.411.911.915.115.615.7
Miss State3.56.45.70.4-1.5-0.30.12.02.0
UCF6.210.412.012.712.67.96.45.35.3
Tennessee16.620.221.824.423.823.621.520.320.3
Kentucky6.28.62.85.26.79.59.57.87.8
Georgia26.829.626.823.724.025.224.322.522.5
Texas22.925.827.428.529.127.928.129.829.8
LSU14.611.410.210.711.513.914.014.614.6
Ole Miss12.017.920.122.723.821.822.921.621.6
FSU15.16.97.04.43.40.70.20.80.8
 

DRU2012

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"IF ONLY..."
Even WITH those two early bad performances against "Da Ew..." and TAMU (early LOSSES that could have been absorbed I suppose looking back, except for our depressing sleep-walk through the early going in BOTH, leaving us NOTHING by the time we seemingly finally awakened in each; these appeared to characterize the ongoing lack of poise and/or progress in Napier's coaching or indeed general guidance), had we HAD the "signature win" the players, the TEAM DESERVED against Tennessee but for his classic poor in-game coaching, this might well by now have been a whole differently-toned discussion after all.
But now, it is more a matter of "How many 'miracles' would it take to...?"--and I've already noted how you really don't wanna find yourselves "counting on miracles in the SEC"!
Talent, timing, coaching--and OK, yes, a LITTLE bit of luck.
 

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