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Way Too Early Top 25 Teams for 2023 Season

Discussion in 'RayGator's Swamp Gas' started by rmonteag, Jan 10, 2023.

  1. Gatorrick22

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    Who told you this? Link?
     
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  2. Gatorrick22

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    12 team playoffs are coming... yeah, bowl games will matter. Even if they are home field games.
     
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  3. ETGator

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    Well, eleven of them will for sure. I wonder if the others will just go away for the most part or whether ESPN can still sell commercials? Looking in the stands (when the camera mistakenly shows them) they seemed empty in December.
     
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  4. 4everaGator

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    James Madison at #24??
     
  5. Wanne15

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    We need to get better and beat their azz. Hoping for teams to get worse so we can win is weak. Two three years and hopefully it doesn’t matter how impressive they are.
     
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  6. Wanne15

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    They’ve had all those 7/8 win teams playing bowls tgat only mattered to the two teams forever. What’s the difference if Tulane vs Southern Miss now? Same crap
     
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  7. Wanne15

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    Those are playoffs, what about the other bowls. That’s just the ny6 joining the party.
     
  8. red4512

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    First it is ESPN and their Florida/UF anti bias.

    Then the dude that write it is a Uga graduate .

    What else did you expect!
     
  9. Gatorrick22

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    Like I said, there should be some enticements or incentives...
     
  10. Gatorhead

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    Here's what I know.

    UF is going to be a completely different team than what we witnessed in 22.
    I endured 79 so I can endure anything.

    Expectations are low going in so success will be extra sweet.
    And who knows, perhaps UF will surprise.

    Oh and to finish, my O and B glasses will be glowing brightly, by mid August, by then I will be convinced from reading this forum, UF will surely be playoff bound.
     
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  11. Wanne15

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    If winning on the field isn’t incentive enough, I don’t want that player in my lockeroom.
     
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  12. Gatorrick22

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    That's how I feel about it, but the NIL has ruined college football as we knew it would... some of us warned this would happen. I knew the NIL was nothing more than a pay-to-play scheme all along.
     
  13. Wanne15

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    But pay to play it’s not new. Nil is new. Sure it sucks but I’ve been thinking this sucks for a long time
     
  14. Gatorrick22

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    The NIL is just legalized cheating.
     
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  15. Wanne15

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    Better than pretending it’s not happening. Denial and acceptance is just a wierd thing to me.
     
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  16. Gatorrick22

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    The feckless NCAA is to blame for all this.
     
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  17. Wanne15

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    Yep but it was bound to happen eventually. Courts just can’t make people work for free. There has to be equal right to work. It’s not what’s intended but our courts aren’t here to police sports, more the rights of us all to be able to profit.
     
  18. Gatorrick22

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    I'm talking about all free cars that FSU was affording their players in the 1990's, and after that Bama, and UGA. All that way before the NIL was legal.

    If the NCAA stops that then we would NOT be in this mess right now.

    And who is playing for free? Do you think university professors work for free?
     
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  19. Wanne15

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    Those top guys don’t give two shits about the classroom for the most part, it’s a obligation to many, not an opportunity.
     
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  20. Gatorrick22

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    Too many kids are taking advantage of colleges/universities and their lower entrance standards just to get into the NFL. Maybe these kids need an 18 and older semi-pro league so they don't have become student athletes.
     
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