According to ESPN's SP+ rankings, we're tied with Oklahoma for the toughest schedule. SEC with 12 of the top 13 toughest. A top 5 team would be projected to get 7.71 wins vs our schedule.
Our 8 wins should look pretty good and with a couple of bounces our way, 9 or 10. We can't slide to 6 or 7.
I wonder why Bobby Bowden didn't want to join the SEC? Instead he picked the ACC, the Almost Competitive Conference. I hate the Noles!
Winning 8-9 games would be a job well done. Of course we all want more but we don't schedule 10 win seasons. We actually have to beat several ranked teams to get to 8 wins, others only have 2-3 even on their schedule . Indiana played a joke of a schedule within the second best conference and was ranked well beyond where they should have been ranked realistically. " well they can only play the games that are on their schedule ." What a load of crap.
Napier is not an on-all-cylinders kind of HC. Things move slowly, or eventually. I would be pleased with 8 regular season wins and then at least the chance to get to 9. I would agree that if we are a good, solid program, 8 total is the minimum even with a tough schedule. But the people above Napier like him and aren't likely to make a change unless our win total is worse than 7. Even then, it's a maybe. Relieving a HC then hiring a winner is difficult, and expensive.
Well, if we happened to beat scUM, georgia, and refsu it would be a pretty good season even if 5 losses = middle of the pack SEC. "pretty good" in the sense that we know the floor, just don't know the ceiling.
To me, this is just Florida football accepting mediocrity and making excuses. If a coach can't win more than 8 games at The University of Florida in his 4th year, a change has to be made.
I don't disagree but would just add that it could depend on previous season results. Had we won 9 or 10 two previous seasons and some things transpired or a couple of games didn't bounce our way, were not due to coaching errors in-game, recruiting was going very well, and the program otherwise appeared to be in great shape, I would think 'wait and see'. I did feel a sting when the two Florida OL committed to Clemson. It's perplexing, but OTOH, fsu and miami missed on both as well. I don't understand our OL recruiting. We should be landing top 10 OL classes every cycle. I realize this is the year our previous four years of OL recruiting/development is coming together, but a good>great team has a solid OL every season.
Georgia went to the CFP with the toughest schedule in the country. That’s the standard. Anything less is a failure.