Okay, I know I am about to take a beating for this post. But with Miami making the long trek to Norman this week, and FSU making the long trek to Boulder next week it is the appropriate time to look at the scheduling habits of the "big three" Florida schools.
Miami's trip to Oklahoma is no doubt an attractive matchup for the TV networks. ABC will broadcast the game at Noon ET this week, as a national telecast with no regional games alongside it. This will come a week before Florida State travels to play Colorado. At the same time Florida has used the NCAA's new 12th game to schedule every directional school possible as a home matchup into the future. Florida's last trip outside the state to play a non conference opponent was in 1991, the year before I began my schooling at UF. I'm now 33 so I to think the Gators have not left the state for a non-SEC game in half of my lifetime is striking. Since Florida last left the state, Miami has made road trips to UCLA, Washington, Baylor, Penn State, Arizona, Arizona State, Houston, Louisville, Louisiana Tech Tennessee and a neutral site game against Ohio State. (among others) Florida State has made road trips to , Notre Dame, Southern Cal, Iowa State, Louisville, and neutral site games with Texas A&M and BYU. (among others)
In the next few years Miami will travel to Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Ohio State, Kansas State and Pittsburgh while Florida State travels to Oklahoma, Colorado, Southern Cal and West Virginia. Florida on the other hand has scheduled zero home and home series with teams from outside the state of Florida.
Florida is the best Football team in the state at the time of this writing and the school with the largest fan and alumni base as well. Wouldn't it be nice if they scheduled like a power instead of scheduling like a pansy?
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
The Gator Way: Scheduling Cupcakes
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You are a clueless moron. Any attack on the Gators is an attack on the nation. Prepare for war Noleboy.
My guess is their rationale is that they play one of those type of games nearly every weekend in the SEC and are already at a disadvantage because of it.
Michigan usually schedules one of the smaller state schools every season to help them out, because it is basically writing a $400,000 check to their athletic department.
Of course then again, they also usually schedule home-away series with Pac-10 teams that usually have novel concepts like speed and spread offenses that our defense can't handle.
Cupcakes can't help their strength of schedule if they lose a few. Something that not even Tim Terrific can prevent this year.
Cupcakes can't help their strength of schedule if they lose a few. Something that not even Tim Terrific can prevent this year.
Michigan's scheduling practices of regularly playing Notre Dame, and then playing a Washington, or an Oregon, or another PAC 10 program is the exact opposite of Florida dodging opponents. Yes, the SEC is tough but so are the Big 10, PAC 10, Big XII, Big East and ACC. It's not a reasonable excuse. I would point out that the ACC had a better non league record than the SEC between 2001-2005 when you factor Miami, V Tech and BC in the equation. That's saying a great deal.
Look at the way Texas and Ohio State schedule. Florida feels it should be mentioned alongside those programs as huge national programs? Start acting like one.
They played Ohio St. in Arizona last year.....right?
That was a Bowl game. It is a fact that Florida has not played a regular season road game outside the state of Florida against a team outside the SEC since 1991. I believe that is probably the longest such streak for a school in a BCS league not playing a non conference game outside its state.
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