re: tOfficial SEC East predictions RESULTS IN OP! tRANT WRONG FOR 3RD STRAIGHT YEAR!

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What do 10 past years have anything to do with this year? Also why would anyone pick division standing based off of a streak in the past involving two teams? Your argument holds no water. Anyone who is even a little informed knows that UT is a much, much better team than UF on paper this year.

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I don't know about this. Much better?

UF is going to be disgusting on defense again, with perhaps the best secondary in the entire country, and one of the better DL's in the SEC. LB is the only place where they aren't exceptional, and even there, they should be pretty good by most standards. I don't think many people expect, even with all the returning starters, UT to finish ahead of UF in defense this year...

On offense, UT last year only averaged 371 yards per game while UF average 368. UF was actually #56 in scoring offense last year, at 30.3 PPG, while UT was at 28.9 PPG and #65 overall. UF makes, potentially, huge coaching gains on that side of the ball over the previous staff, have decent players at every position, check the recruiting rankings.

On paper, UF has been SO MUCH WORSE the last few years than they should have been. Looking on paper, UF should have won the SEC east last year. Paper is meaningless. Production is what counts.

And UT has failed to come up with winning football plays for many, many years now in big games. Until it starts happening, I won't believe they can actually win the division.