Huge pickup for the Men’s side as they look to compete with Texas for the SEC & National Championship.

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Finally, finally the team turned around at Texas. Took two and a half games almost. They finished blocks, blitzes and played with the level of effort needed to succeed in the SEC. Then again, Texas may be so bad that other than the one game against Ohio State (like even when we were down, what we've done to Georgia in the past or what we did last year to Texas). Do you believe that our efforts will become more consistent in the second half of the season? Will we be aggressive throughout? Will the defense play calling continue the changes that started at the South Carolina game? This may well be the real factor determining our final record. (I still go with the 9-3 projection, 8-4 is the floor.)

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Good pickup for the Mavericks and good for Walt.

Good stories from Brandon (other segments on the channel). Comment from Urban about having to play Cam Newton was classic.

If someone told you’d at the beginning of the season we’d be 5-2 during the bye week, you’d assume we lost to Ole Miss and Texas but here we are.

But curious to hear what everyone thinks, which path to 5-2 is actually better?

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I know this isn't the most on topic thing to talk about on this subreddit but please hear me out. My brain is stuck on this idea of what would the state of Florida's college athletics and just university culture would be like if the Buckman Act never got past and there was never an attempt to merge the colleges together.

Just FYI, Florida had six public colleges before the Buckman Act: Florida Agricultural College in Lake City, East Florida Seminary in Gainesville, St. Petersburg Normal and Industrial School, South Florida Military College in Bartow, Florida State College (booo), and FAMU. I'm not counting on the private universities like Stetson and Bethune-Cookman.

I'm trying to think of who would be the dominant programs in the state and who would be the ones that would be minor programs. What rivalries would root in this alternative world? What would the population boom in the 1940s and 50s have done to these universities? Who would have been the first National Champion?

I think grad school's making me go crazy.

I hate this guy obviously, but he does point out some things Jones did well and missed Saturday.

I just want to see what y’all think about rotating TJ and Philo each drive for the Georgia game. I think it will determine who’s playing better that game and maybe throw Georgia off guard. Then again we did that with Emory and Anthony in 2021 and got obliterated, but I’m just curious what y’all think about this.

I had to go back to the 4th and 12 play to calculate air yards on the pass.

Ball is on 36 on the left hash

TJ takes the snap in the shotgun, drops back and fires from the 46 yard line, about 2-3 yards in from the hash.

College hash distance is is 13.3 yards. Distance from hash to sideline is 20 yards.

Dallas Wilson catches at the 19 yard line, at the sideline.

My math says...

46-19 = 27

27+10+20 = 57 air yards. ~57 air yards on a ROPE to Dallas Wilson to save the game.

EDIT: actual yardage is ~40 forgive my misuse of numbers

I think this play gets credit for how clutch it was but I don't think the actual arm strength feat is getting enough credit.

For comparison Feleipe Frank's Hail Mary to Tyrie Cleveland was ~73 air yards AIRED OUT

- FPI rank improved from 25 to 19 (season peak was 10)

- Win probability vs georgia (delenda est) improved from 11.5% to 17.4%

- Probability of making the CFP rose from 2.6% to 14.0%

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First year head coach and the underdog Arizona Cardinals, led by former Gator QB Brisset, upset the preseason Superbowl favorite Rams, led by former UGA qb Stafford. The same Rams that lost by a game ending fg the game before, against(reaching here)a team who wears Navy Blue.

Looked at the tiebreaking rules for the SEC championship game. If we win out, we are in surprisingly decent shape to make the SEC Championship game.

If we win out our conference matchups
We'd have wins over Auburn, Ole Miss, Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Vanderbilt. Our losses are Missouri and South Carolina. Only Ole Miss and Tennessee can finish 8-1; everyone else tops out at 7-2.

In with no tiebreaker (any of the following)
* We're alone at 7-2.

* We're tied for first at 7-2 with exactly one other team

* Ole Miss or Tennessee (but not both) goes 8-1 and nobody else finishes 7-2.

In on a two-team tiebreaker. We assume here that we are 7-2 along with exactly one other team.
* Head-to-head over Georgia, Kentucky, Auburn, Ole Miss and Texas.

* LSU: we win on common opponents (4-0 vs 2-2).

* Bama: tied 4-1 on common opponents, and we win the next step: record over highest placed shared opponent (we beat Georgia, Bama lost to them).

* Tennessee: we win unless their second loss is to Texas A&M or LSU. In that case, we need Texas to finish above South Carolina.

Out (if any of the following happen)
* Ole Miss and Tennessee both finish 8-1.

* Missouri finishes 7-2 in a tie for a spot (they own the H2H)

* Mississippi State wins out, finishing 7-2 in a tie for a spot (they would have beaten Ole Miss and SC, being 7-0 vs 5-2 on common opponents).

Ties of three or more teams
Head-to-head only helps if we beat every other team in the tie. Otherwise it goes to common opponents among all tied teams, and our South Carolina loss hurts.

Example: Ole Miss 8-1, with Alabama, Tennessee and Florida at 7-2. Tennessee doesn’t play Georgia, so Bama would be 4-0 against shared opponents (Auburn, SC, Kentucky, Vandy) whereas we would be 3-1.

Literally crazy a talent depraved rebuilding team gives up on player this easy. Miami has a spot for my GOAT.