re: Early Rankings

You serious, Clark?

Mash unit or not, we rolled over against UVA. UK continues to beat us for half a decade and we've never beaten TAMU. Our hope next year is pulling off an upset win against Bama or UGA? I'm not holding my breathe.

There's a difference between being unreasonably negative and realistic. I think this team next year will be better than last. I believe last year's team, despite the records, was better than the previous. I think that Muschamp has exceeded my expectations as far as his ability to adapt, willingness to cut coaches loose, and appreciativeness of an offense without his fingers on it.

However, even if we are substantially better on defense and maintain our offense, to overcome UGA, Bama, and Clemson at this juncture is unreasonable. Hope it's true, but I would almost put that in the same boat as our Final 4 run. So awesome but not a watershed moment. The difference between beating Bama in 2019 and beating them in 2010 is that we knew we could beat them in 2010. We had the dudes.

Success next year would be win the ones you should: 3 nonconference (truth be told, though, that UNC will be a big effing game), Vandy, and UK (if they are still better than us, we need to stop). Get Mizzou for 6 wins and after that I'm good. Give me a TAMU win and I'll be pumped. UT and UF are rolls of the dice and if we show up the first game, maybe something more winnable. That's a pretty good season, even not being in the same stratosphere as UGA, Bama, and Clemson.

And please don't try to sell me that Bentley's SEC experience will be enough to beat these upper tier teams. He had his chance against UF and pissed himself.