Standard coach-speak rules dictate that you focus on:1) The next play.
2) The next game.
3) Nothing else.
But Urban Meyer recognizes that his talented Florida Gators, considered by many to be the "hottest team in college football" at present, are players on the grand stage. Win out, and they'll book a trip to Miami and a chance to add to Florida's crystal football collection. It's that simple. And there's no use avoiding the conversation.
Timing is everything. Florida clinched a division championship with their win over Vanderbilt, but games remain against South Carolina, Citadel, and FSU before playing Alabama in Atlanta. Florida could lose all three of those games and still achieve goal number one, so for now, and to keep focus, it's kosher to talk about the BCS picture in Gainesville."I'll go through that all with them because they're going to hear it," Meyer said. "And instead of from Uncle Jim or someone like that, they're going to hear exactly what's going on with the BCS. For us to just avoid that, I learned that's not the right way to do it. We're going to be talking about it, so let's talk about it, and then it's over, done."
"... There's a lot at stake. I don't mind mentioning it now; we're playing for a lot. The first goal is to get to Atlanta and the second goal is to be in the national picture. And we're in the national picture."
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Being a big UGA fan, I hate to say this, But it looks like UF is peaking at the right time this year like the dogs did last year to finish the season as one of if not the hottest team in the country. Granted UF has to win out and beat a great Ala. team in the sec championship game, which could go either way. But they remind me of Ga. last year. Should be fun in Atlanta though!
Florida lost at home to an unranked team. But the SEC fanbase rationalizes that loss by saying Florida is playing good now. The "hottest team in college football " is still a one loss wannabee like the other 6 one loss teams, not to mention the 5 still undefeated teams. How many Gator fans thought the Michigan team that lost to App State last year would beat them in the Capital One Bowl . But this year the defense is better.....and where was that defense against Ole Miss. Despite help from the refs, Florida still lost that game. An exciting team..definitely...# 1...definitely not.
.......jNot #1 yet,but just keep watching my friend,it will happen right before ur eyes.