The Blue Board

eh, our O kinda sucks and were beat up, we played some crazy good, fast, hard hitting defenses consecutively. Tell you what though we could very well have the best overall Dfense in the country and our special teams has got to be up there with the best in the country (except punt returns now since were now down to our 3rd string guy). I think we are # 6 because there isnt anywhere else to rank us. theres only 2 teams with a lose ahead of us and we lost to one of them and the other is pre-season #1 Bama (though we did beat the teams that beat both of those teams). We also looked like garbage Vs a couple less then stellar teams.

Thats not to say that i don't think we could beat the teams ahead of us (if our O-line and Qb could get healthy). I personally would favor us over 3 out of the 5 teams and say that us vs Bama would be a very close game. I also think we have the best D in the country to slow Oregon down a ton. But our problem is we would still need to score 30-35 PTS and unless we get at least 1 defensive/special teams TD and good feild position off TO, im not sure i see it happening. Unless our run game can be as good as it was Vs LSU.

the NCAA itself lists us at numero uno. Can't agree with Sagarin on this one. From top to bottom nobody has played a tougher schedule.

Alabama most likely will play Georgia in the SEC CCG, and Florida still has to play at Florida St.
So adding in those games and looking at each team's opponents side by side, this is how I see it.

The top 3 games are even as both will have played Georgia, Texas A&M, and LSU
at a neutral site, at home, and away.
The bottom 7/8 games are a wash, not much difference there at all.
The middle 2 games (or the 4th & 5th opponents listed) is what makes Florida's schedule much tougher.

Florida plays 2 more Top 10 teams, or at least they are Top 15 teams, including 1 on the road- Florida St.
Alabama played 2 fringe Top 25 teams, Michigan at a neutral site and Miss St at home, and I think calling
Miss State a fringe top 25 team is being polite.

IMO that is a far superior SOS when your talking about 1 team
(Bama) playing 3 Top 10 type opponents and another team
(Florida) playing 5 Top 10 type opponents.

Also, Florida plays 2 of those games on the road,
compared to only 1 on the road for Alabama.

Alabama-------------Florida
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Georgia________ Georgia
@LSU__________LSU
Texas A&M______@Texas A&M

Michigan________@Florida St
Miss State_______South Carolina

Ole Miss________@Vanderbilt
@Missouri_______Missouri
@Tennessee____ @Tennessee
@Arkansas______Kentucky
Auburn_________ Bowling Green
W.Kentucky______La-Lafayette
W.Carolina______ Jacksonville St
Florida Atlantic___ 12 games only
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Really -- #14 SOS for Alabama?
That's interesting.

This is what is sad truthfully.
There is talk that even if we beat FSU we won't go to a BCS game...

Even if we loose to FSU, we will have played the most top 10 teams (2x more than anyone) and finished with a winning record (which I think is deserving of a BCS game no matter what) but because of the timing of the losses, we would be out

And some polls don't even have us projected to play in a New Year's Day bowl, what a scam that would be

UF is just where it needs to be. I would be cool with any spot in the 6- 10 range.

If aTm wins out, Bama wins out, and 2 of the undefeated teams, UF probably gets left out of the BCS bowls.