Found October 28, 2009 on The Bull Gator: Yardbarker Blogger Network
Saw something that was probably intended as humor, but has to make you think.  According to Pat Forde, the rallying cry for Florida: “If we’re playing that badly, why can’t anyone beat us?”  Around here, we joke as much as the next guy, get frustrated as much as most fans, and even watch entire chunks of games standing up because we are too annoyed to sit down.  But at the end of the day Gator fans, 7-0 is better than the alternatives.  Just a little perspective with your Fruit Loops.  Carry on.Ah the bye week.  The week off to rest up your concussed quarterback and prepare for a hostile environment most teams don’t get out of alive (you did though, by the way of a 13-3 victory).  If you’re on the other side of the coin, the bye week gives you a chance to reevaluate your plan of attack for a season in which you’ve stumbled out to 4-3 and looked good, bad, and everything in between in the process.Georgia may not look like much of a threat on the surface, but never underestimate the power of the week off.  Florida has looked more than blah over the last few weeks and has to get ready to do it all over again in a short time.  Not to say that matters much – teams can change drastically from week to week – but sometimes that week off is nice.And about not looking all that special on the surface…look a little deeper into the Bulldogs.  A team that started the season #13 in both polls probably shouldn’t be sitting at 4-3.  The team that finished at #13 in last year’s AP Poll – you guessed it, Georgia – was 10-3.  To get to 10-3, the Bulldogs have to go on quite the dramatic run.  Possible, yes.  Probably, not likely.  But that 4-3 might not be as average as it seems.  Two losses came to teams that are currently ranked #9 and #14 in the BCS standings.  Those two teams only have two losses (both to other ranked teams) between them.  They’re teams that in all reality probably should’ve beaten the Bulldogs.  And don’t forget, Georgia was in one of those games until the very end.Where the question mark comes is against Tennessee.  The Vols haven’t looked as bad as their 3-4 record dictates, but they’ve only looked truly good twice: in an opening win over Western Kentucky and against the Bulldogs.  Giving up 45 points to a team that has scored less than half that four times this season and allowing a much maligned quarterback to have the single greatest game of his career is not good.  And that’s where a lot of the red flags surrounding Georgia come.After the off week, there’s no telling which Georgia the Gators will face.  The one that won in shootouts over South Carolina and Arkansas?  The one that stuck with LSU down to the wire?  Or the won the Vols took behind the woodshed? 

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