re: Going down to the wire, a lot of prospects are in flux ...

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Total offense rank nationally:

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Not a particularly useful stat as it doesn't account for relative schedule difficulty, efficiency, etc. S&P+ year end does a pretty good job of actually accounting for all the factors and plugging that into a reasonable rating system.

S&P+ for UF under Muschamp:

2013: 100
2014: 74

S&P+ for USC under Muschamp:

2016: 107
2017: 88
projected 2018: 42

Projections are just that, but it would seem somewhat intentionally obtuse to pretend like this is a carbon copy of how things went down at UF. Not to mention he took over a roster that still had a lot of talent at UF - just had some character problems. At USC, he's having to rebuild from a general talent deficiency in the waning years of SOS. Add to that, that traditionally, USC hasn't competed for the same caliber of athlete, and I'd say you're seeing an improved Muschamp over the UF years. That may or may not be enough to make them what they want to be, but it's not insignificant either.


As to your reply to me, might need a bit more context for what point you were making. My comment was simply pointing out the discrepancy between 2 statements you made in the same post.

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Just because two coordinators run the same style offense does not mean they will get the same results.

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True, but it doesn't mean they won't. Will claimed UF's offense would be more up tempo with Roper. It never was.

Will it be with BMac? We'll see.

I believe this was discussed on Finebaum very early in the year with one of the ESPN SEC talking heads. The thought was the offensive change is coming because he realizes that he can't go mano y mano with Georgia and other teams who will likely out recruit him based on recruiting bases. Since his Oline will not be able to matchup physically with the opposing Dline, this will help to even things up.

As the guy interviewed pointed out though, Will is a defensive guy. As well as he's recruiting he doesn't have the defensive depth just yet to roll guys in and out at the same level as UGA or Bama on that side of the ball. What's he gonna do when he's actually in a game where his first string is sucking air and BMac's had a couple of three and outs and another drive with one first, but only ran about 90 seconds off the clock?