Few states take their college football as seriously as Florida, and almost everyone has a team they root for. So with that in mind we present rankings of all the Division 1-A teams in the sunshine state. It should be mentioned these rankings are strongly based on schedule played so far, and attempt to ignore [...]
The Sunshine State College Football Rankings according to Ski: It’s the second week of the college rankings for Florida, which means we can expect to see a good deal of shift at the top of the rankings from last week. An important note on my rankings, they are based largely on the schedule already played and [...]
We’re still roughly two weeks from Selection Sunday so let’s roll out one of my favorite college basketball gimmicks, the blind resume comparison. The following are two Florida teams on the bubble for the NCAA Tournament. Teams -+-+-+ Exhibit A – Exhibit B Record -+-+-+ 21-8 -+-+-+-+20-8 Conf Record – 8-6 -+-+-+-+ 7-7 RPI -+-+-+-+-+ 60 -+-+-+-+-+ 25 Despite a [...]
Miami (19-7) : beat Duke, Maryland No team in the country (not even Tennessee) did more to help themselves than the Canes did last week. The Canes’ RPI shot up from 36th to 25th best and went from being just outside the bubble to firmly in. Barring a late season collapse the Canes should be [...]
South Florida (11-15) : beat Syracuse, lost to UConn There are your typical losses, and there are your punch to the gut losses. The last second overtime loss to UConn would qualify as the latter. Although in the long run USF may have turned the corner considering they beat the Orange earlier in the week and [...]
Florida (19-5) : lost to Tenn, beat Georgia Stewart Mandel’s first bracket projection is out and the Gators are in the NCAA tournament as an 11 seed. In a contrast of styles Mandel has the Gators matched up against defensive-minded Pitt team, which almost guarantees a first round exit for Florida. The Gators have the 14th [...]
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA The Gators lost their Oh-Fours to the NBA draft but they still have the most talented team in the state. In addition to one of the best recruiting classes in the country head-lined by Jai Lucas and Nick Calathes the Gators return bigman Marreese Speights and guard Walter Hodge. More importantly, the Gators [...]
