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

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

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Clearly needs to be fired mid season.

All/most of Muschamps players left

The only things that worry me about him so far are recruiting and a curious inflexibility. Also a lack of aggression-- make no mistake Nussmeier and McElwain lost the Tennessee game more than any single player lost it-- they chose to go away from what was working-- middle to deep range passes to the WRs and instead didn't call a single pass downfield or to the wrs until the 4th quarter-- that's baffling.

He's 2-5 against ranked teams at Florida; 3-5 if you count UGA who was ranked in the coaches' poll.

In all five losses he was without his starting QB. Basically all coaches would struggle to win games with a backup QB in their second year at a school.

Butch Jones-esque

What's his record against ranked teams with his starting QB?

If he doesn't improve, he'll be kicked off the Saban coaching tree!

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.