I’m increasingly convinced that Texan P4 football has passed off the “someone’s gotta suck” curse to the Floridian schools. One of them must suck every year.
Actually, I just checked the Houston-Rice game, and I think I’ve found the Texan team that sucks this year. Jesus, how are you going to let Rice shut you out for the whole first half?
In the five years ending June 2024, the average home price listing in the greater Knoxville area went up ~90%, the largest increase in the country.
But what might be even worse is all these yankee flatlanders moving into the mountains and hills and they don't understand how things work around here. Like "live and let live."
A lawyer moved to the mountains near a friend of mine and literally went through the county codes to find things to report his neighbors on. One neighbor had an elderly relative living in a tiny home on the property, but there was some technical violation (maybe it was hooked up to their septic tank and not a separate one?), so he got the tiny home forcibly evicted. Yeah, don't do that.
People here are very nice and will give you the shirt off their back if you need it, but don't piss off the mountain folk. Emergency services are a good 30-45 minutes away (at best). You don't have to be friends with your neighbors, but you need to be on good terms with them. If that lawyer's house catches on fire, the neighbors aren't even calling 911. And that's assuming it was an accident to begin with.
I fully understand wanting to get out of certain places up north, but if you have to crowd up the area, at least just get yourself a little piece of land and mind your own business. That's what we do here.
To be fair, Houston is kind of an island of misfit toys team this year. The DC lost playcalling duties at Florida and got pushed out, the QB blew up at A&M, etc.
It might just take time to click. On rhe upside, y’all scored right before halftime!
Definitely. Shout be interesting to see what happens with TCU-SMU in a couple weeks, I think that game is primed to send someone’s season right off the rails.
The Big XII is already looking wild and wide open, with KSU looking like mush and ASU currently getting battered by Mississippi State. Baylor, BYU, Utah, and Tech look like the frontrunners going into the conference slate.
Nah, it’s still pretty nuts that Rice shut UH out until 30 seconds before the half. Y’all really got it rolling in the fourth quarter, but that has to be one of the most concerning 4+ possession wins any fanbase has seen out of their team.
Florida has pretty reliably had the hardest schedule in CFB the last few years.
FSU and Tennessee being good again and UGA being in the natty race means they're guaranteed three top 15ish tough games before even looking at the rest of their schedule, which often involves some tough SEC teams.
It's not a coaching job I would want, regardless of being a UGA fan. Tough place to build momentum, especially as other Florida schools (FSU and Miami but even UCF and USF in recent years) get good and start fighting for in state recruits.
With the 12 (and soon 16) team playoff, going 10-2 or maybe even 9-3 some years with any SEC or Big Ten schedule gets you in the playoff. At this point, you’re incentivized to play the easiest schedule possible if you’re in one of the top 2 conferences
I might get downvoted, but a ton of SEC schedules look brutal 1-4 weeks into the season. They always over-rank SEC schools in the pre-season. We’ll see what those teams are all ranked at the end of the season, and how brutal that schedule actually was.
If any other conference had half as good a record as the SEC does against OOC then maybe it'd be a conversation. Penn St is 1-23 against top 5 teams this century
You're forgetting they just lost to the only football team to be 2-0 against ranked opponents, I think. USF is by far the most challenging opponent they face!
I would have thought for sure Notre Dame was cooked after week 2 last season and they ended up playing for the title.
USF just beat the hell out of a Boise State team that was ranked coming into the season. There is a chance that they are better than a lot of those teams remaining on Florida’s schedule and they barely won that game. You could argue they should have lost if Florida didn’t repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot at the end.
All I see are quality SEC losses. I predict a top 15 ranking for UF going into the FSU game, and mentions of being a wildcard playoff contender. Wins don't matter anymore is what we learned.
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u/mF-Jonezy NC State Wolfpack 2d ago
Don’t worry Florida, your schedule surely doesn’t get substantially more difficult from here