College Football 2009 -

South of Seattle wrote:

We're going all White tonight.

This is so your HD TV doesn't implode.

Quack Quack!

all white on the blue field?? :shock: :shock:

Love the Big Ten and love the Badgers more.

As a gamecock fan i'm not excited about how we won, but on the road for the first game i'll take the win. Some teaking is needed on the offense that is for sure. THe line looked better. What amazes me is how can The O'le Ball Coach have been here for 5 years and we still dont have an exciting offense. Our best offesne is a running game just like when lou holtz left. Plus our defense has been the stand out unit. The part of the team he has very little to do with..... quite frustrating.

That said I don't like Oregon or BSU so this is unbiased.... that guy Blount needs to get suspended for the year at least. He runs his mouth before the game, gets talked trash to after the game, so he decides to sucker punch a guy when he is not looking. Then when he is being dragged off the field the fans are giving him hell and he attempts to go after a fan in the stands...... No place in football for that shit.

I understand things get heated when you are a competitor, but this is why you don't run your mouth before the game. What did he expect all the Boise players to just let that ride?

katellis wrote:

best time of the year indeed.

GO BLUE! 8-)

Indifference71 wrote:

College football makes fall Saturdays so much more enjoyable. The only thing I want to happen this year is Florida to lose. I absolutely cannot stand Tebow.

The Japanese people didnt like Godzilla either... but sometimes there's just nothing you can do.
ha! just kidding around.
Go Gators.

JonnyPistachio wrote:

Indifference71 wrote:

College football makes fall Saturdays so much more enjoyable. The only thing I want to happen this year is Florida to lose. I absolutely cannot stand Tebow.

The Japanese people didnt like Godzilla either... but sometimes there's just nothing you can do.
ha! just kidding around.
Go Gators.

soo.is he like christzilla?


btw..i was at the cap one bowl a couple years ago.
i've seen him stopped
go blue

MEGATRON wrote:

JonnyPistachio wrote:

Indifference71 wrote:

College football makes fall Saturdays so much more enjoyable. The only thing I want to happen this year is Florida to lose. I absolutely cannot stand Tebow.

The Japanese people didnt like Godzilla either... but sometimes there's just nothing you can do.
ha! just kidding around.
Go Gators.

soo.is he like christzilla?


btw..i was at the cap one bowl a couple years ago.
i've seen him stopped
go blue

Go Blue baby!! That was an awesome game too.

Can't wait for the season to start so ESPN can stop trying to ruin the program with all their little BS stories.

thunderDAN wrote:

intodeep wrote:

thunderDAN wrote:

nothing is new in 2009, Florida won't travel out of the South to play anyone. They play their normal cupcakes and then play a SEC schedule all within 200 miles of Gainesville. I'd love to see them travel up north in November to see what they got, or travel 1500 miles west to play someone.

You make a valid point about their out of conference schedule, but is there any doubt how good of a team they are really? They do win their bowl games on neutral fields.

sure it is not the cold of november with the hard hits etc you play in up north, but i don't see a ton of teams from up north getting excited to come play in the heat of the south in late august and early september either.

So as much as i agree they could step it up a little bit in their out of conference games, but i don't think you can ride them too much they are a talented team.

I know they win those Bowl games, but they never travel. Traveling has a ton to do with who wins games because one team travels and the other is at home. It's the reason Michigan has such a horrible record when they travel west and often lose to inferior teams. Every other team in the country travels except Florida, they only play in the South so there is much less of a home field advantage for the other team.

To the best of my knowledge, Florida has never played a Pac-10 school or Big Ten school as an away team. The furthest they travel every other year is to Kentucky. Traveling plays a ton into who wins games.

Florida is 4-5 this decade in bowl games. They win the big ones, especially under urban cryer, but you can't say they always win their bowl games. There is no denying their talent, one of the best in the country. But they definitely get by on the hype of the SEC when it comes to justifying their non-conf schedule.

thunderDAN wrote:

intodeep wrote:

thunderDAN wrote:

nothing is new in 2009, Florida won't travel out of the South to play anyone. They play their normal cupcakes and then play a SEC schedule all within 200 miles of Gainesville. I'd love to see them travel up north in November to see what they got, or travel 1500 miles west to play someone.

You make a valid point about their out of conference schedule, but is there any doubt how good of a team they are really? They do win their bowl games on neutral fields.

sure it is not the cold of november with the hard hits etc you play in up north, but i don't see a ton of teams from up north getting excited to come play in the heat of the south in late august and early september either.

So as much as i agree they could step it up a little bit in their out of conference games, but i don't think you can ride them too much they are a talented team.

I know they win those Bowl games, but they never travel. Traveling has a ton to do with who wins games because one team travels and the other is at home. It's the reason Michigan has such a horrible record when they travel west and often lose to inferior teams. Every other team in the country travels except Florida, they only play in the South so there is much less of a home field advantage for the other team.

To the best of my knowledge, Florida has never played a Pac-10 school or Big Ten school as an away team. The furthest they travel every other year is to Kentucky. Traveling plays a ton into who wins games.

A valid point. The pac 10 has actively been making strides to up their exposure by having their teams play the SEC & ACC in recent years.
I guess i was blinded by the recent championship games in thinking that florida had a better record then others, but i can't think of too many teams that have huge travel schedules. To be honest the only one that comes to mind is USC. They play Notre Dave and Ohio State every year.

Most teams have one big out of conference games and then a couple of teams coming in to get a pay check. in the past they alwasy play Florida State as their tough out of conference game. Recently Florida State has not been as competitive.

Also like i said no need to pile on florida most teams don't travel or schedule much more then one tough opponent you bring up michigan. How far do they travel? Who are they playing out of conference that is big and bad? How far are they traveling? They play three teams with michigan in their name (eastern, western, and state)

I think you have some valid points i can consider, but at the same time i don't think it is as overblown as you make it out to be. I can't remember the last time Michigan came down south to play a team during the season...

It seems like every other school other than Florida atleast attempts to play other schools outside of their conference. Georgia goes to Oklahoma State, LSU is traveling to Washington this weekend, Michigan did a home/home with Oregon,

as a OSU fan I know Ohio State had/has home/homes with:

Texas (05/06)
USC (08/09)
Miami (09/10)
Cal (11/12)
Tennessee (13/14)
Oklahoma (15/16)


Florida never has any of these games. They had a gave vs. Miami last year which was played in Gainesville. They would never travel to Austin, Norman or LA to take on another big time program.