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Florida looked much better at home against *checks notes* Long Island than we did on the road against Ohio State, you see. 😉

well we were that bad last year and it may not really be considering our portal additions. You'd think it'd realize that the punting was much better after game 1 though. What I don't understand is why it didn't punish Ohio State's offense just as much as ours. It must have registered our 4th quarter yards and points as "garbage time", which is a little silly given we had a clear chance to tie the game at the end.

OSU had a good scheme for us and the lack of film did prove to be advantage for them. (We couldn't game plan for them the way they did for us). That's a difficult first game as a full time starter and he melted down. It is what it is, but IMO things look fixable. We'll see how good Arch's mental really is. If he can clean up his game there is a terrific team around him.

In the analytical power rankings (e.g FPI and SP+) we're going to move *up* after the game vs OSU. We significantly out gained them not only in total yards but also per-play. We lost because of a few 4th downs and penalties, which an analytics person would call bad luck. I do think Arch obviously has to play much better but the team around is pretty damn well positioned. And we have 3 weeks of patsies to tune up the passing game on. Personally I'd put us #2 of this group. Neither Clemson nor LSU was particularly great last year, so I'm not a believer on them yet. Remember how pathetic that Clemson defense was? Notre Dame lost a lot and doesn't recruit like OSU and Texas. Do we really believe Miami has a good defense now, or was ND just a bit limited themselves? We'll see how it plays out.

"Long Island" honestly might be the single funniest opponent I have ever seen for a P5 team.

Glass half full is that outside of Arch the team looked really good given the competition level and road environment. Arch just has to get better over the next few weeks.

I think they were both legit calls but ticky tack. SEC refs love to throw flags. Game was lost by the passing game taking so long to get going.

This is like a Mack Brown OU game

Ug wrong thread.

Patricia having 0 film disarmed Sark's ability to plan winners in the script.

Conservative call but I get going into half time with it being a one score game. If we don't do dumb penalties OSU won't drive the entire field. 2nd half needs more quick game.

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Don't get the hand wringing about the defense. It was two dumb and unnecessary penalties that made the drive. (Both of which get let go if not SEC refs IMO).

Don't get the hand wringing about the defense. It was two dumb and unnecessary penalties that made the drive. (Both of which get let go if not SEC refs IMO).

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