re: McIllwain is 1-7 vs. ranked teams, 0-5 the last 5 games

I have my criticisms of Mac-- most centered on his coordinator hires (at least Collins had a good track record, Nuss was just a fricking pity hire for his friend who had basically been fired each of the previous two seasons for incompetence) -- and his lack of recruiting (this is where he should have focused with the OC hire-- call your own plays and get a stud recruiter as OC).

This is more than a bit unfair-- he's coached exactly 1 of those games (Ole Miss) with his starting QB and he won that one handily. Now, Appleby didn't cost Florida the game on Saturday (that's on Nuss for wearing out the D with 5 straight 3 and outs because he's an idiot and didn't call any passes to the WRs, no attempts whatsoever until the 5th series of the second half after throwing for 200+ in the first 75% of which was to the wideouts) but still.