Going into the year a lot of people had this game circled on the calendar as the most important of the year. The idea being there was a good chance we lose to Ohio State and or Georgia on the road, while beating OU and aggy bc they weren’t supposed to be all that good, so this game was going to be the pivot point on if we made the playoffs or not.
Lots of talk about Florida being good. Oh Noe’s Lagaway is a player- home field and him might be worth a 40 point swing or whatever it was from last year.
I was not worried about them all that much. I think they sort of suck and sun belt Billy couldn’t coach his way out of a paper bag. So, I got that part right.
I also thought our team was going to be awesome. We’ve seen exactly one data point of us looking awesome, against Sam Houston. Defense has been really good to amazing all year. Running backs are meh. The offensive line sort of sucks it looks like, but that probably shouldn’t be a thing that derails a season if Arch can hit pretty simple concepts and not look like a spastic scrub. So far, he’s been basically the anti Quinn- really strong in the pocket, good awareness, able to run, fine on the deep ball, but… pretty shitty at everything else. Which is weird because he played 2.5 games last year and was really really good.
I thought he started off slow last week (even his completions I didn’t think were in the right place) but by the end of the game he was rolling and dropping dimes and looking like the guy I think we all thought he would be.
If early season games were the yips, he’s worked through them, and what we saw in Q2 and Q3 against Sam are what he’s going to be thankful for the ceiling of this team definitely goes back to national title. What we’ve seen, that I didn’t expect, was a pretty grim floor from the offense.
looking forward to being in Gainesville for the game- who all is going? (Buy tailgate tickets here)
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Hook Em high like an eagle soars. Even with OU next week I don’t think there’s any way this team isn’t completely and totally full of focusness for the gators.