Florida easily has the most winnable out of conference schedule out of those 6 teams. They have absolutely 0% chance of losing the first 3, and with Florida State at home, that should not be a difficult game at all either.

I want as many home games as the next Gator fan, but don’t you think it’s about time for a home and home with someone from another BCS conference? I can’t tell you how many times I have friends bring up the fact that we never have to leave the state. I can only make the argument for so long that the SEC is tough enough without playing anybody else, but until Florida State returns to the national championship picture again, we need to re-think our schedule.

I’m not saying we need to go out and challenge USC. But would it really hurt to play someone like NC State or Georgia Tech? How about heading out west a little to challenge Texas Tech or Texas A&M? We can still stay within driving distance of Gainesville, but let’s challenge ourselves.

I think we should definitely play a D1 home and home so that the away game corresponds to the year that we are the “away” team in Jax and the home game replaces the “home” game lost in Jax the opposite years.

BUT – there are NO WORRIES WHATSOEVER about UF getting shut out if we go undedeated. Absolutely none at all. We would be wire-to-wire #1. In other years? possibly, but next year, as defending champs with so much coming back, there is no way we are shut out, so stop worrying.

Instead, come read the argument on the FSU board that UF will suffer in recruiting because Meyer’s “gimmicky offense” doesn’t put any players into the NFL, therefore recruits will start avoiding UF. Comical. First, they are basing their sample on one class of recruits that would have had to leave after 3 years (this year’s senior class was Meyer’s first true recruiting class and that doesn’t even account for a redshirt year). Plus, we didn’t have many seniors this season as everyone knows. They also argue (wishfully) that Harvin will flop in the NFL and Tebow will to. Apparently, they think that this would damage recruiting more so than say, finishing 7-5 every other year!

Florida State is light years better than anybody on Texas non-conference schedule. At least we play a BCS team and a rivalry game at that.

your in-state rival game (Ok St.) is also a conference game, giving you one extra game a year to play with.

Plus, some SEC schools do play tough out of conference games – see your upcoming games against LSU and Tennessee (who also played UCLA recently – again with the advantage of having the “extra” game because Vandy is a conference game already on the schedule).

UF and UGA have the unique disadvantage of playing a “home” game every other year in Jax. This makes schools hesitant to play too many away games and lose home game revenue. UGA has recently done a much better job than we have by schedling better OOC opponents (the addition of the 12th game really helped provide some leeway to do so).

This year’s Gator schedule is embarrassing – I acknowledge that. But last year we played Miami and Hawaii which are (at least perceived to be at the time of scheduling) quality out of conference opponents.

I do wish that we would at least schedule a Colorado home and home or something similar to give us fans a nice place to travel to.

That is exactly the same situation as we have with UGA in Jax every year.