re: Who’s your surprise East team?

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Agreed, it seems like every first year coach UF gets wins eleven games in their first year no matter how bad the situation looks from the prior year. It's weird.

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Shark Fricker took over a team that had a top notch defense but a poorly coached Muschamp offense. However, for the first 6 games that year, Macelwain had Grier as his qb, which Muschamp did not. It would've been interesting to see how Muschamp could've fricked Grier up, but Grier helped Mac get a few big wins early in 2015 against some good teams (Tenn, Ole Miss) that he probably would've lost if Treon was qb instead.

Mac had a mental breakdown, but left some good pieces (Pitts, Toney, Trask), and Mullen had an easy schedule to end 2018 with: Muschamp-coached Gamecocks, Idaho, Taggart coached FSU, and a devastated Michigan team who got embarrassed by Ohio State.

Mullen basically got lucky.