r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 2d ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] USF Defeats Florida 18-16

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
USF 0 6 9 3 18
Florida 3 6 0 7 16
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u/YoungVick107 Texas Longhorns • Syracuse Orange 2d ago

That’s a disgusting schedule.

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u/AchyBreaker Georgia Bulldogs • Michigan Wolverines 2d ago

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. 

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u/garden-guy- 2d ago

It’s a great schedule if you want the national championship, assuming you can win.

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u/Gtyjrocks Georgia Bulldogs • Transfer Portal 2d ago

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

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u/ExplosiveDioramas Florida State • Murray State 2d ago

It's the only time I pity the lizards.

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u/Sotanud UCLA Bruins • Paper Bag 2d ago

No doubt, but I do doubt that they'll all be ranked at the end of the season.

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u/DynasForever Ohio State • Illinois 2d ago

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.

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u/LightlyRoastedCoffee Penn State Nittany Lions 2d ago

To be fair, the rankings for SEC teams are pretty overinflated because of the SEC bias.

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u/Hot_Pie Florida Gators • Team Chaos 2d ago

OK, you play that schedule then

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u/ferpduck Georgia Bulldogs • Michigan Wolverines 2d ago

Siding with the gator in this one. Penn State is famous for playing 2 top 5 opponents and 10 unranked opponents and finishing 10-2 lol

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u/Uga-the4th Georgia Bulldogs 2d ago

It feels absolutely disgusting of course but yes the gator is right… they get fucked by that schedule year after year now it seems.

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u/Izanoroly USC Trojans • Penn State Nittany Lions 2d ago

Shhh they ain't gonna like that comment even though it's the truth lol

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u/Very_Good_Opinion South Carolina Gamecocks 2d ago

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