re: FPRC's Florida Gators 2014 Football Preview

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"