VTgator
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“The players didn’t care/over looked them” are excuses that we always here from SEC schools. “They didn’t want to be there” is also very popular down there.
Absolutely! As a Gator, I've heard this for decades, particularly after we lost to the Noles. Among the classics were:
* "Spurrier don't care about OOC games. He's after SEC rings."
* "Florida and Miami are the only two teams FSU plays, while the rest of their All Cupcake Conference schedule is a piece of cake. Florida has to run through the vaunted SEC gauntlet. WE are beaten up while all of FSU's starters are fresh..."
* "Bowden cheats."
* "Mickey Andrews teaches his players to play dirty."
I love that canard of the SEC gauntlet. From 1992-1999, that "gauntlet" included:
* Vandy...............43-84-0
* Kentucky...........46-78-0
* South Carolina....40-60-1 (92-00)
* LSU..................65-62-1
* 3d SEC-W..........75-53-2
Add to this a mediocre (by normal standards) Georgia team and two G5 cupcakes, and Florida pretty much had six guaranteed wins.
Now granted, FSU and other major schools also had their share of cupcakes (some more than others). Of the 65 P5 programs, here are the schools with losing records since 2010:
Kansas......................Big XII
Oregon State.............PAC
Purdue......................BiG
Colorado...................PAC
Illinois.......................BiG
Indiana.....................BiG
Rutgers.....................BiG
Iowa State................Big XII
Virginia......................ACC
Wake Forest...............ACC
Maryland...................BiG
Cal...........................PAC
Kentucky...................SEC
Vandy.......................SEC
Minnesota..................BiG
Arkansas....................SEC
Boston College............ACC
UCLA.........................PAC
Texas Tech.................Big XII
North Carolina.............ACC
Ole Miss.....................SEC
But fans being fans, one side loves to beat their chests, and Florida is hardly an exception...
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