re: We still haven't seen Florida.

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Yeah, it's a concern because you didn't get live reps but fortunately after EMU is UK. While UK may be improved, we should still win. I'm hoping that they are actually improved so that our offense does not implement the dreaded "vanilla" garbage. I long for opening it up and throwing the ball up 48 again. None of this vanilla crap against weaker opponents. Put them away and get the 2nd team some reps.

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See that's part of what concerns me. The system Florida will presumably be running against Bama should be a much higher octane offense (insert joke about Florida and offense) so I'm wondering how the coaches will deal with being setback. A lot of teams run boring vanilla to keep other teams from seeing more than they have to show but many also do that because in the first 3 weeks they're building on and adding to the playbook - seeing if the team executes, what they're capable of and then adding more flavor.

Being behind a week I'm not sure what Muschamp and Roper will do. On one hand you don't want to call so much that you confuse your team when they're learning a whole new system and set them up fail or lose confidence that they can execute but on the other you've got to see what they can do in a live game and what they're ready for.

That said, UK's offense may be potent enough to force more of the playbook open earlier. It's going to be interesting to see whether or not Jeff Driskel can finally live up to the hype and thrive in Roper's system.