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re: Is Florida football a One-Hit Wonder?
Posted on 5/23/24 at 3:36 pm to AUTiger789
Posted on 5/23/24 at 3:36 pm to AUTiger789
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Couple this with it being 16 years since their most recent title, and the five programs who’ve won titles since then all having 2 or more in that span.
Only 4 SEC schools have titles the last 16 years.
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Posted on 5/23/24 at 3:37 pm to Dawgfanman
Posted on 5/23/24 at 3:40 pm to ChexMix
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UGA fans giving bama a run for their money on the dumb
So your own school has conflicting information on the matter and you expect me to know definitively? Claim whatever you’d like. Most places, including at least parts of your own ADs website, only recognize two.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 3:43 pm to ChexMix
1913? Are you kidding me? It’s pathetic that AU is reduced to talking about 1913.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 3:43 pm to AUTiger789
They had a heck of a stretch where they won football, basketball and baseball national championships. Also track.
They were on top of the college sports world. Hard to believe it all went away. Not being critical, but damn, how does that happen?
They were on top of the college sports world. Hard to believe it all went away. Not being critical, but damn, how does that happen?
Posted on 5/23/24 at 3:45 pm to SaturdayNAthens
Bama, LSU, and UGA have broken Auburn. They are nothing more than an empty husk.
This post was edited on 5/23/24 at 3:45 pm
Posted on 5/23/24 at 3:45 pm to leeman101
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AU also got robbed in 1983 and went undefeated in 1993 and 2004. Many teams would claim those years.
Name a school other than UCF that claims a post-BCS title they didn't win.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 3:45 pm to AUTiger789
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Is Florida football a One-Hit Wonder?
Why does it matter. Better school academically and athletically INCLUDING football. So why does a barner care?
Posted on 5/23/24 at 3:48 pm to AUTiger789
This probably sounded a lot better in your head when you were rehearsing it
A one hit wonder would be they had one good year with a title and then nothing.
A one hit wonder would be they had one good year with a title and then nothing.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 3:51 pm to Dawgfanman
Sorry, 4 not five.
Yet all four… Alabama, Georgia, LSU, and Auburn…
*Have won 2 more SEC Titles
*Have won at least one National Title
*Have all played for at least two National Titles
… all since the Gators last won an SEC Title.
When you combine that drought with their drought leading up to the late 1980s/early 1990s, it is quite amazing how much success they jam packed into that short period. Also leaves on scratching their head as to why the lack of success outside that small window.
Yet all four… Alabama, Georgia, LSU, and Auburn…
*Have won 2 more SEC Titles
*Have won at least one National Title
*Have all played for at least two National Titles
… all since the Gators last won an SEC Title.
When you combine that drought with their drought leading up to the late 1980s/early 1990s, it is quite amazing how much success they jam packed into that short period. Also leaves on scratching their head as to why the lack of success outside that small window.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 3:56 pm to AUTiger789
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Also leaves on scratching their head as to why the lack of success outside that small window.
It doesn’t leave me doing so. Florida experienced a population boom where it tripled in population from 1969-1990. It’s not even doubled since then. This led to more available talent. Since Meyer left they’ve made horrible hires. It’s silly to call a school with 3 NC, under 2 coaches, in the last 30 years a one hit wonder. Florida before the widespread use of central A/C isn’t the Florida of today. People can live there in relative comfort today.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 3:59 pm to Rising
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A one hit wonder would be they had one good year with a title and then nothing.
Or it could mean one relatively short time period and no championships outside that window. Which in this case it does.
I mean does no one else find this wild?
Florida football
1906-1990 (85 years): zero championships of any sort
1991-2008 (18 years): 8 SEC titles and 3 national titles
2009-2023 (15 years): zero championships of any sort
The time period since their last SEC title is quickly nearing the same length of time that they won all their titles.
This post was edited on 5/23/24 at 4:18 pm
Posted on 5/23/24 at 4:00 pm to AUTiger789
they have had success with 2’of the better coaches of all time and have been pretty bad almost all other years.
clearly the right coach can get things going there but it’s not LSU were borderline simpletons can win
clearly the right coach can get things going there but it’s not LSU were borderline simpletons can win
Posted on 5/23/24 at 4:05 pm to ShinerHorns
Right! That’s why they are so butt hurt and bitter
Posted on 5/23/24 at 4:07 pm to Dawgfanman
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Florida experienced a population boom where it tripled in population from 1969-1990. It’s not even doubled since then.
It’s kinda hard to keep doubling when you’re the 3rd largest state. Florida has had absolute frantic growth in recent years. It’s basically the same size as 8 Alabama’s put together.
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Florida before the widespread use of central A/C isn’t the Florida of today. People can live there in relative comfort today.
Do you think it’s much different than southern Alabama? Florida got AC the same time the rest of the South did…. And AC became prevalent in the 1940s and 1950s.
Florida also had surpassed Alabama in population by the late 1940s….. roughly a decade before Auburn won its first national Title and roughly 15 years before Bama claimed their first.
AC isn’t the problem.
Population isn’t the problem.
It wasn’t in the 1950s and it certainly hasn’t been the issue the last 15 years.
This post was edited on 5/23/24 at 4:09 pm
Posted on 5/23/24 at 4:08 pm to SammyTiger
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they have had success with 2’of the better coaches of all time and have been pretty bad almost all other years.
clearly the right coach can get things going there but it’s not LSU were borderline simpletons can win
My point exactly.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 4:08 pm to AUTiger789
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Literally Florida has zero major success outside the 1985-2009 time period.
I don’t know, man. 25 years is a significant chunk of time. And they’ve won the SEC East multiple times since 2009.
I think it’s more likely they’ll bounce back than return to their status over 40 years ago.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 4:16 pm to SaturdayNAthens
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1913? Are you kidding me? It’s pathetic that AU is reduced to talking about 1913.
Reduced? You literally passed Auburn in number of National titles in the way back year of 2022.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 4:24 pm to AUTiger789
Its more like a Generation-Hit Wonder. And its not like they were just good in that stretch, they were Alabama level of dominant for a decade under Spurrier. As for the time frame between titles its similar to Florida State, Miami, and Nebraska.
And frick you for making me defend Florida.
And frick Florida.
And frick you for making me defend Florida.
And frick Florida.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 4:24 pm to jonnyanony
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Name a school other than UCF that claims a post-BCS title they didn't win.
Agreed. Auburn should never claim 2004. Did we get screwed out of playing for a title… absolutely. But you can’t claim a trophy that’s not in the case.
And this applies to all the fake ones Bama, Ole Miss, etc try to claim. Doesn’t matter if it’s pre-BCS or not. If you claim a title from the 1920s that you didn’t start claiming until 1986, it’s fake as shite.
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