I think it's kind of a long shot, but possible. There are currently no teams with more than 3 losses in either poll, so that's a problem, but a lot of teams ranked above us are going to lose their bowl games, too. UF is technically ranked #32 in AP in the "also getting votes" category. Ranked #19 on ESPN's power index. Would be nice to the see the team get recognized for showing improvement during the "toughest schedule in the history of college football" season ...
Love the question. Anybody know which teams we should be rooting against? And wouldn’t it be something for Napier, having been much maligned early in the season and having lost his starting QB, to pull such a rabbit out of his hat?
Before last year, ESPN had us a #20 in the Power ranking index. I expect us to be preseason ranked in the top 25 for the 2025 football season.
Lessee where we are now: Locks: Texas Georgia Alabama Tennessee Close To The Edge (of the top 25): South Carolina (with a loss to Illinois, but will probably beat the Illini) Mizzou (with a loss to Iowa) Ole Miss (with a loss to Duke) LSU (with a win over Baylor) Generally, the SEC places 5-6 teams in the final top 25 team. Generally, it is rare that a team with 5 losses gets ranked in the AP. The last Florida team to do it was in 2003, and it was based in large part to a schedule that was tougher than even this year's schedule. Florida also had bigger wins that year, and our QB was also a true freshman who went 7-2 (on the field) as a starter...
I remember when there was just a top 10. Back then being down at 25 was nothing to brag about. But times change. I remember Your Hit Parade on TV. Snooky Lanson and Giselle McKenzie (I think there was one other singer) would sing the top 10 popular songs each week. The show finally went off the air in the late 50s after they had to start singing songs like "You Ain't Nothin' but a Hound Dog."
There are more legit programs than there use to be for sure but im with you, being barely ranked doesnt do much for me. Im only concerned about next year and making the playoffs and beating teams on our schedule not named kentucky and miss st. Even making tge pkayiffs and losing to someone like asu is not enough to be proud of. Sure that would be improvement and looking good going into DJ's most promising year but still just meh.
CO (#20) getting its doors blown out by BYU might help. If IL loses to SC, that might help. Mizzou or UNLV losing could help. None of those teams would have 5 losses, but they would all have 4.
I took a close look at this, and I think we'd have to "jump" some teams that won to make the top 25. Not enough of the bottom end has lost their games for UF to just move up over teams that lost. I think we'll up around 27-28 unless the voters reward UF for their schedule and give us a boost, which seems improbably. Still, showed a lot of improvement this year, and hopefully we build on it.
Army lost a game but won their bowl game against a 5-7 LA Tech. The Deions lost. Syracuse, UNLV and Memphis all won. A&M lost Kansas State won Marshall quit It would be a huge leap for us to go up 7 spots. I don't think we played very well enough against FSU or Tulane to jump that much.
We have five losses. Doubtful we make the top twenty five. More interested in 2025. Need to be better on both lines of scrimmage. Hire a OC and special teams coach. Having to burn a timeout because of a man short on the punt team is inexcusable.
You think the voters actually watch the games? They just see the score so Tulane game was a blowout from their perspective
The voters don't watch but they also just look at records. They see 5 losses vs 2 or 3 and that just means the two or three loss team is better, they don't care who they play either. These polls are typically garbage just based on that.
Sagarin (#13), Massey (#17) & CFPI (#19) agree with the premise of this thread. If the voters don't get it, they can . . .
That's quite interesting. I suspect those are pretty stable, the results for here on out won't matter too much. Crazy to look at Massey for basketball. Gators are #3. Top 4 is SEC, 8 of top 14.
Would be deserving but not likely. With the exception of the Deions, most teams that loose their bowl game just slide up a bit while the winner slides lower a bit.
