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If you use the definition for magical of "extremely or extraordinarily pleasant, enjoyable, or exciting," you are quite correct; there was nothing magical about that season. However if you use the definition of "produced by or as if by magic," then I think it's pretty fair. It's not like those 11 wins were produced by great coaching or stellar play, so it had to be the result of something else. As I am ruling out divine intervention, "magic" seems as good an explantion as anything else.Magical? What season were they watching exactly?
Outside of one full game (Usce, and even that was just them giving us 20 yard fields) and the second halves against Lsu, A&M, ut and the noles, that was an absolutely horrific season of football to watch. When a punt block scoop-and-score at the buzzer beats LaLafayette, and you end the year being embarrassed by Louisville, you’ve kissed any chance of being considered “magical” goodbye.
Weren't we one Notre Dame upset away from backdooring our way into the National Title game that year? I would need to go back and check but I'm pretty sure we were #3 in the BCS standings, and if Notre Dame would have lost they would have matched us up against Bama.
So - one game away from a National title appearance, despite THAT offense...yeah, magic.
We would've rivaled '02 Nebraska for the least deserving NC game contender in the modern era. If we put aside records and really look at how we ended up there, we had no business being in that NC discussion. Again, we needed a miracle play to beat LaLa, held on for dear life against Bowling Green and first-year Mizzou, and couldn't score more than 23 against Jax State. I've never seen a season where everything goes a team's way like 2012 for us. Outside of Reed's fumble, we got every single break.
Agreed, we totally wouldn't have been the 2nd best team in the country...that was obvious. Not trying to argue that. But based on the system in play at the time, we would have satisfied the requirements of the BCS formula to be in the championship game. Crazy.
It is, and your original point is correct. If USC pulls out a win, we likely get the nod. What's even crazier is to think that three plays made our season. Without Elam's strip of Beckham, Purofoy/Jenkins' blocked punt TD, and Morrison's hit on Manuel, we likely lose all three of those games. So even using the same logic with regard to Reed's goal line fumble and counting that as a potential win, we were 3 plays away from 9-4 that season. And yet if the Trojans play slightly better, we are in the NC game. That's beyond crazy. That's insanity.
If Reed didn't fumble it on the goal line though, we would've lost to Bama in the SECCG, thereby keeping us out of the NC game. So in a way, that was another play that worked 'in our favor' if we're solely looking at a potential NC game appearance. Sucked that it happened though...
I'm in the TBD camp. It's only been one year here at UF. We are trending up so let's see what happens next season.
I'm in the TBD camp. It's only been one year here at UF. We are trending up so let's see what happens next season.
If Reed didnt fumble at the fifteen or so, Chimp would have Chimped and ran the ball 4 times.If Reed didn't fumble it on the goal line though
There was nothing magical about chumps 11 win season. Every game, nay, nearly every play was a heartattack or stroke waiting to happen. Offense was so abysmal the defense often accounted for more points. We beat some good teams, and yet we almost lost to a couple of community colleges. Every game no matter the opponent required life support and a defibrillator. If Florida had 9 lives, chump burned them all that season. And the next season is permanent proof of that fact.
Fwwwwwwk that dwag!!!
That's really it in a nutshell....Both SOS and Urban bailed on UF when they found out the AD wasn't nearly as committed to remaining a great program as they were. Kinda hard to pay for quality when Scrooge has hidden the checkbook....But maybe that is an elite coach after all.
Yep and we were a USC upset of ND from getting pounded by Bama in the National Title game. I am kind of glad that didn't play out.
No. Not even close.If Driskel just Drikels one less time in that Georgia game we would probably have made the SECCG. .