Mephistopheles

Tebow, Harvin and Spikes are thinking about all coming back together ala the Gators basketball team a few years back. Personally, I think Tebow sticks and the other two come out.

Alex played in 2006, if I recall.

We really need to close registration.

*sigh* the last five years or so the red sox make all the moves i want to make.

Florida goes into the game as the number 1. Rk Pts Prv School 1. 83.91 2 Florida 2. 83.84 1 Oklahoma 3. 80.24 4 Southern Cal 4. 80.22 3 Texas 5. 73.32 7 Utah 6. 73.08 5 Penn State 7. 72.37 6 Texas Tech 8. 70.27 10 TCU 9. 69.91 9 Alabama 10. 68.08 8 Ohio State 11. 67.76 12 Missouri 12. 67.60 17 Oregon 13. 67.30 11 Boise St 14. 66.98 16 Georgia 15. 66.29 15 Florida St 16. 66.09 24 Mississippi 17. 65.84 13 Oklahoma St 18. 65.66 19 California 19. 65.27 20 Oregon St 20. 62.84 23 Virginia Tech 21. 62.78 21 Iowa 22. 62.58 26 Nebraska 23. 62.46 14 Georgia Tech 24. 62.12 18 North Carolina 25. 61.10 25 Pittsburgh 26. 60.84 31 Wake Forest 27. 60.48 28 Brigham Young 28. 60.46 35 Arizona 29. 60.38 22 Boston College 30. 60.28 33 Kansas Lastly, top 30 by predictor. Rk Pts Prv School 1. 87.80 2 Florida 2. 86.75 1 Oklahoma 3. 84.32 3 Southern Cal 4. 81.33 4 Texas 5. 77.59 5 Penn State 6. 71.52 6 Texas Tech 7. 70.35 8 TCU 8. 69.95 7 Missouri 9. 69.72 9 Ohio State 10. 69.23 12 Utah 11. 68.94 10 Alabama 12. 68.46 13 Oregon 13. 68.08 17 Mississippi 14. 67.45 14 Iowa 15. 67.29 15 Boise St 16. 67.12 11 Oklahoma St 17. 66.70 16 California 18. 65.26 18 Arizona 19. 64.40 20 Florida St 20. 64.24 19 Oregon St 21. 63.33 21 Georgia 22. 61.46 22 North Carolina 23. 60.92 24 Nebraska 24. 59.87 26 Kansas 25. 59.38 25 Clemson 26. 59.26 38 Tulsa 27. 58.77 31 Wake Forest 28. 58.71 23 Georgia Tech 29. 58.53 27 Brigham Young 30. 58.44 30 Pittsburgh

Final Rankings Before Title Game: First the Conferences New Old 59.92 60.01 Big 12 58.61 59.69 ACC 58.48 56.47 SEC 54.98 52.97 PAC 10 54.10 55.81 Big Ten 53.66 53.30 Big East 51.66 51.13 MWC 42.19 40.70 CUSA 41.88 42.56 WAC 41.21 41.60 IND 39.15 41.92 MAC 34.97 34.13 Sun Belt AS you can see, the SEC looked like it was down year prior to the bowls, but had widespread gains to make a pretty big move pu in the rankings. The Pac 10 also had large gains across the board. The Big Ten fell behind the Pac 10, but not enough to fall behind the Big East as the worst BCS conferences. The MWC was close to becoming the second conference in history to be higher than a BCS conference. They did it in 2004 finishing ahead of the Big East, which was the Big East's first year after Miami and Virginia Tech left. Next year looks to be like a down year for the Mid-majors. The WAC's Boise State Broncos travel to Oregon the first month of the season. They'll lose that one, for sure. As far as the MWC goes. Brigham Young travels to Dallas to play Oklahoma. That's going to be a woodshed beating. They take on the much improved 'Noles, that's going to be a beatdown though it is a home game. Utah also travels to Oregon, like Boise and also has Louisville coming. They have road games vs TCU and BYU next year. Much tougher schedule. Finally, TCU has an easier schedule with their one decent non-conference game being Virginia. It's going to be a down year for mid-majors, I think. The Pac 10 ought to be much improved. The SEC should be about the same. The ACC will be fine. The Big Ten should improve and the Big XII will regress. The Big East does not matter and neither does the Sun Belt, CUSA or especially the crappy MAC.

Tim Tebow, Brandon Spikes and Percy Harvin are talking about all coming back next season for their senior year ala the Gators basketball team a couple years ago. If that happens, the Gators will return every defensive player on their two deep and lose two players on their offensive two deep.

People in Oklahoma really are dumb. http://www.bustedcoverage.com/?p=9898

I disagree. IMB! is just being stupid. To compare, I've only gone through the first half of the Ohio State game, granted most of UT's offense came in the third quarter..but in the first half versus Alabama Tebow had more passes longer than 10 yards than McCoy did, despite throwing half as many passes total. In fact McCoy threw as many passes 3 yards behind the line of scrimmage as he did longer than 10 yards. Breakdown: 19% < 0 37% 0-4 26% 5-9 14% 10-20 4% 25+ Tebow threw 59% of his passes longer than 10 yards. McCoy threw 82% less than 10 yards.

I guess people in Oklahoma cannot read.

Four were for 10 or 11 and the others were longer. However, 2 of those 4 were on third down and long right at the first down line. Another pass was for 9 yards on 3rd and 8, though that was included in the 5-9 bin.

You guys are just stupid. Let's look at Tim Tebow passing versus Alabama, and their good pass defense. He threw 22 passes. and none of this includes YAC yards, but just how for downfield that the passes were. 8 of the 22 were between 10 and 20 yards downfield. That would be 36%. 5 of the 22 were between 5 and 10 yards downfield. Four of his passes were less than five yards downfield. Let's look at them. 1 was a screen pass that was dropped. That was the ONLY screen that they ran. 1 was a ball he threw away, it barely made the line of scrimmage. The other was a triple option that became a pass. Yes, it was an option. They only got 6 yards total, so not a lot of YAC yards. The other one was when he held the ball for a good five seconds looking downfield and then dumped it off when there was good coverage. Of his eight shortest passes, five of them were inside the ten yard line (ie they couldn't go down field). The other six pass plays? Down the field for more than twenty-five yards. So..breaking it down: 23% 25+ 36% 10-19 23% 5-9 18% 0-4 Oh, and let's look at passing plays when they weren't inside the red zone. 29% 25+ 47% 10-19 11% 5-9 11% 0-4 That's a damn vertical passing game if I ever saw one. It's only one game, but if those ratios hold true or even close to true over the course of the season, Florida might have one of the top two or three most vertical passing games in country. The only teams I can think of that pass deep as often as Florida are Georgia and maybe USC.

Have they thrown for nearly 7000 yards the last two years with a grand total of about 10 or 11 inteceptions?

Have you even watched Florida the last three years? Yes, when the offense was keyed by Chris Leak they were an offense that relied heavily with the screen passing game. The last two years with Tebow at the helm they haven't done it nearly as much. In fact really, the only short passes Tebow does more than once a game is a shovel pass which is actually sometimes in a QUADRUPLE option. Yes, Florida runs a quadruple option. The last two years, and especially this year, the passing game has become more of a vertical assault than a horizontal assault. In Urbans first two years when Florida had no running game they had to use the screen game because they had nothing short so defenses could just drop back. Last year and this year especially with the emergence of a real running game they've taken those plays out of the rotation and primarily go down the field in the passing game. I was going to rewatch the Alabama game soon, I'll keep notes of the passing distances. The Gators don't throw short to Louis Murphy, Deonte Thompson, Riley Cooper or Carl Moore. If you don't think Tebows passing game is down the field, then you haven't really watched him all that much.

we can sign mark prior and carry on the dream of a prior healthy in our rotation. itll be like 2006 all over again!

Bob Stoops should pull a plug on his defense talking to the media. They're getting dumber by the day. Nic Harris decided to call the Florida Gators offense one dimensional and "I don't think that they — [Tebow] — can beat us with his arm." You know Nic. I was looking this year and Florida is fourth in the nation in yards per pass play. FOURTH. The Sooners are only a spot ahead of them. Florida also has just THREE interceptions all season, and a TD:INT ratio over 10:1. The only team to do that by a large margin. Florida is also third in yards per running play. Florida is top four in both categories. Obviously, they're the only team to do that. As a whole, Florida actually made more yards per play than Oklahoma's vaunted offense...and they didn't do it against scarecrow defenses. QB rating blows as a statistic, but Tim Tebow was SECOND in 2007 and THIRD in 2008 in the nation, ahead of McCoy and Harrell both years. Now, I'm not going to say that Florida's offense is better than yours or that Tim Tebow is a better passing QB than Bradford, but one thing is painfully obvious. To say that Florida's offense is one dimensional is to be stupid. Tim Tebow has a career 65:9 TD:INT ratio! Just because Florida doesn't pass the ball 50 times like people do in the Big XII, it doesn't mean they can't pass the ball. Florida's every bit as capable to throw the football as Oklahoma is. They have better wide receivers. They have better pass-catching running backs and they have a good offensive line.

This can't be done. I've tried.

what's your score? i'm currently at 425 with a 23-9 record. 596th place nationally. i'm pretty certain to drop, though, since i only have 5 on tulsa and 4 on oklahoma left. I have 427, 8 points on Ball State and 1 on Florida. I am also 23-9.

Thats it, I win.

Dew, we were having this discussion a couple of weeks ago. Cameron Newton has decided to transfer to a Texas JuCo. So that means John Brantley is the immediate future if Tebow bolts, and the future is him and Trey Burton, a 2010 commit. Right now the only scholarship QBs are John Brantley and Tim Tebow. The third string QB is punter Chas Henry. If catastrophe hits the fourth guy will be Percy Harvin. Florida has one QB commit, Jordan Reed, though Reed despite being a very good recruiting prospect will probably never see the light of day as a Florida QB. He'll likely be in between Brantley and Burton. Chas Henry, a sophomore, will probably be the #3 QB all spring if Tebow returns. If Tebow's gone after Brantley I guess he and Reed. It'd be odd to see a punter recruit be the backup quarterback at a university with such QB productivity as Florida, the last two decades.

Shonn Greene had no business even being brought up in the Heisman discussion.

dont bitch at me, i didnt attack you and just noticed how immature you acted. im not one to get into personal attack-laden arguments.

it only took keeper 28 posts...

Yeah I think the Big Ten did alright in the bowls. We expected the Iowa game to be closer. We expected the Penn State game to be a blow out. We expected tonight's to be a blow out and the Missouri game to be a blowout. N'western, Iowa and Ohio State performed better than our expectations. Penn State did as expected.

They had been playing with fire that entire drive. They played 0 coverage three or four times trying to get pressure on McCoy.