Friday, June 16, 2006
Are You Ready for Some Football?
Those who know me know that one of my favorite times of year is getting closer -- yes, it's only 11 weeks until the college football season kicks off. If you don't know what my team is...look at the picture...look at the name of the blog. If you still don't know, you probably haven't read this far. Or you're my brother Dave, who hates sports, but even he knows where I went to school.
This year the Gators have a fierce schedule, rated by The Sporting News as the toughest in the nation. There are eight teams that went bowling last year, as well as Tennessee on the road, which will surely be better than last year. Also on the schedule are home games against Southern Miss, Central Florida, and South Carolina, and a trip to FSU. And from September 30 through October 28, the Gators play consecutive games against Alabama and LSU at home, at Auburn, and the annual "Cocktail Party" game against Georgia in Jacksonville (there's an open week between Auburn and Georgia).
No doubt there will be comments, particularly from the Peanut Gallery and schools that outright declined a formal invitation to play in the SEC, that Florida plays a soft schedule because they play Vanderbilt, Kentucky, and Western Carolina -- how many of them will play as many tough games this season as UF will have just during "Black October"?
This year the Gators have a fierce schedule, rated by The Sporting News as the toughest in the nation. There are eight teams that went bowling last year, as well as Tennessee on the road, which will surely be better than last year. Also on the schedule are home games against Southern Miss, Central Florida, and South Carolina, and a trip to FSU. And from September 30 through October 28, the Gators play consecutive games against Alabama and LSU at home, at Auburn, and the annual "Cocktail Party" game against Georgia in Jacksonville (there's an open week between Auburn and Georgia).
No doubt there will be comments, particularly from the Peanut Gallery and schools that outright declined a formal invitation to play in the SEC, that Florida plays a soft schedule because they play Vanderbilt, Kentucky, and Western Carolina -- how many of them will play as many tough games this season as UF will have just during "Black October"?
