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re: FPRC's Florida Gators 2014 Football Preview
Posted on 8/11/14 at 5:20 pm to semotruman
Posted on 8/11/14 at 5:20 pm to semotruman
2014 Season Outlook
Keys for 2014
1. STAY HEALTHY! Especially at QB and the OL. If UF stays healthy there they will be hard to beat.
2. Protect the football! If Florida can do that, even if they don't force a ton of turnovers, they will be hard to beat.
-2011 and 2013, 11-14 overall record - TO margin = -14
-2012 = 11-2 overall, +15 TO margin
3. Be luckier! Buy some lucky rabbits feet, wear your underwear inside out, hats backwards, put pennies in the corners of the football complex, don't walk underneath ladders or break mirrors... whatever you have to do... Florida just needs a few luckier bounces in 2014. 2013 was just a full season of bad bounces, bad luck, and general misfortune.
Season Projection
Look, even if the offense comes together, the defense plays lights out, and special teams improves from last season, UF's biggest problem might be its schedule.
Road games @ Alabama and @ Florida State at this point look to be likely losses. Not to mention games against Missouri, South Carolina, Georgia, and its annual East-West clash vs. LSU.
However, the Missouri, South Carolina, and LSU games are all in the Swamp. With the Georgia game in Jacksonville, four of UF's six toughest games are in the Swamp (or in close to it).
UF will definitely better this season. 8 wins should definitely be possible, with 9 wins not that far fetched. If UF wins 10+ games this season, Muschamp should be named Coach of the Year without a doubt.
Three more weeks and UF football will be back...
Keys for 2014
1. STAY HEALTHY! Especially at QB and the OL. If UF stays healthy there they will be hard to beat.
2. Protect the football! If Florida can do that, even if they don't force a ton of turnovers, they will be hard to beat.
-2011 and 2013, 11-14 overall record - TO margin = -14
-2012 = 11-2 overall, +15 TO margin
3. Be luckier! Buy some lucky rabbits feet, wear your underwear inside out, hats backwards, put pennies in the corners of the football complex, don't walk underneath ladders or break mirrors... whatever you have to do... Florida just needs a few luckier bounces in 2014. 2013 was just a full season of bad bounces, bad luck, and general misfortune.
Season Projection
Look, even if the offense comes together, the defense plays lights out, and special teams improves from last season, UF's biggest problem might be its schedule.
Road games @ Alabama and @ Florida State at this point look to be likely losses. Not to mention games against Missouri, South Carolina, Georgia, and its annual East-West clash vs. LSU.
However, the Missouri, South Carolina, and LSU games are all in the Swamp. With the Georgia game in Jacksonville, four of UF's six toughest games are in the Swamp (or in close to it).
UF will definitely better this season. 8 wins should definitely be possible, with 9 wins not that far fetched. If UF wins 10+ games this season, Muschamp should be named Coach of the Year without a doubt.
Three more weeks and UF football will be back...
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Posted on 8/11/14 at 5:58 pm to semotruman
The problem for Muschamp is that 8 wins is probably the worst case scenario for the future of the program at this point as all it does is buy him another season (assuming the 8 includes a win over UGA- FSU is the last game of the year and Boom would likely be fired prior to it making a win irrelevant) with an even hotter seat (essentially making 2015 an Atlanta or bust season), 9 wins and he gets some breathing room, less than 8 and it doesn't really matter how the team looks, he's done.
Will Muschamp has dug himself such a massive hole that he essentially needs to win 10 games or somehow get to Atlanta with 9 wins in order to be even close to secure going into 2015. Is Florida the best candidate in the SEC to have a massive turnaround this year? Yeah, like Mizzou last season (but to an even greater extent) Florida gets a ton of talent back, and like Auburn last year Florida shifts from a pro style attack to a spread option hurry up, but would anyone bet on it?
I mean the Vegas over/under is 7.5 and yes on paper it looks like free money (4 gimmes in EKU, EMU, Idaho and UK; 3 60-40 games in UT, Vandy and Mizzou, 3 tossups in UGA, USC, and LSU and two 35-65 games at Bama and at FSU) but deep down there's something about Muschamp that screams- "watch out, I'll be an elite coach someday but it wont be here"
Will Muschamp has dug himself such a massive hole that he essentially needs to win 10 games or somehow get to Atlanta with 9 wins in order to be even close to secure going into 2015. Is Florida the best candidate in the SEC to have a massive turnaround this year? Yeah, like Mizzou last season (but to an even greater extent) Florida gets a ton of talent back, and like Auburn last year Florida shifts from a pro style attack to a spread option hurry up, but would anyone bet on it?
I mean the Vegas over/under is 7.5 and yes on paper it looks like free money (4 gimmes in EKU, EMU, Idaho and UK; 3 60-40 games in UT, Vandy and Mizzou, 3 tossups in UGA, USC, and LSU and two 35-65 games at Bama and at FSU) but deep down there's something about Muschamp that screams- "watch out, I'll be an elite coach someday but it wont be here"
This post was edited on 8/11/14 at 6:01 pm
Posted on 8/11/14 at 6:37 pm to semotruman
Good stuff, Semo 
Posted on 8/11/14 at 9:00 pm to semotruman
We goin to da 'ship. 
Posted on 8/11/14 at 9:12 pm to semotruman
good stuff i hope Florida gets good again so the lsu game can be at night
Posted on 8/13/14 at 3:35 pm to semotruman
GEORGIA SOUTHERN!!!!!!!
GSU DRAINS THE SWAMP!!!!
GSU DRAINS THE SWAMP!!!!
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