Good god what a schedule.
I’ll have some fun:
UM-Worse position in ‘22 heard Cristobal worse coach. New QB 1
Samford- Duh
aTM-New coaches some high profile outbound transfers, first SEC/SEC road game.
Miss State- New coaches 3rd offensive system in 3 years New QB 2.
UCF- its UCF, new QB 3.
UT- it’s UT new QB 4.
UK- go 0-3 against UK, lose respect if stepping down isn’t done and this board used to not tolerate a loss to UK, shouldn’t be a controversial statement about 3(4) straight. New QB 5 (and at home).
UGA- Ok, it takes years to be competitive.
LSU- New QB 6, at home 0-3 and 6 straight who cares?
Texas- away, they took so long to compete under Sark, but now great (possible New QB 7).
Ole Miss-Well, Kiffin is awful, no excuse to lose at home to him. Seriously, possibly worst coach in the SEC by many Gator posts I see.
FSU- lose a ton, New QB 7(8). Almost beat them 2x.
We return a ton on offense and defense and will lose a ton after ‘24. IF Billy is going to make a run or show his system, it’s while he has a 6th year QB, 4th year starting RB, essentially returning all 5 OL (still waiting on Mazzccua bc he had the weird Senior Day with eligibility and Slaughter played majority of season with little difference from Kingsley), top TE, Wilson and Jean year 2, all the youth on D now has a season of experience, and others.
Seriously, in ‘25, Mertz, most the OL, Marshall (fwiw), James, Johnson, Watson, Sapp, Boone, Moore, could be gone leaving room for a lot of mostly talented, but very inexperienced players. Also, that’s assuming there aren’t any more key defections.
Oh and a little thing called the ‘25 schedule. Let’s play a game, UF gets what it voted for= 9 SEC games. We probably keep UGA and UT or LSU (because “rivalry” and play the 7 we didn’t play this season. That’s Bama, Auburn (Freeze year 3), Vandy (see Miss State), Mizzou, Carolina (new coach?), OU, and Arky while playing @ Miami and FSU. Not exactly a cake walk in ‘25 with a lot of turnover. Essentially, we trade UCF for a SEC team. Or we pod up and see the reported UGA, OU and Carolina with the other 5 teams and one rando (wanna bet it is probably one of the aforementioned two?).
Our schedule will never be Vandy, Miss State, Arky, Carolina, UK, Vandy, Mizzou and Vandy. Just won’t be. Especially in a 9 game SEC (if we get our way).
I’ll see myself out.