It can explain the last 11 matchups.
That's all I'm talking.
I don't know anything about what happened in the 90s to make a determination.
that's kind of hte point. this futility against the Gators goes back 25 years (since 1990 when they've been on the schedule annually). going further back than that is kind of point less cause we didn't play them very often prior to the SPurrier years.
5-20 over that time span, and i can tell you that for the better part of the 90's we did out recruit them, we definitely put more players in the NFL, and we still managed to go on a 6 game losing streak to them.
and i can say with 100% certainty that the reason was our program's "play not to lose" mentality vs. their program's "we're gonna kick your azz, and then tell you about it" mentality.
and it's carried over for the entirety of the Fulmer years, in to what is now knows as the dark days of Kiffin/Dooley, where mentality was trumped by coaching turmoil and lack of talent.
well, now we're back to (the last 2-3 years anyway) to what seems to be a close gap in talent, and yet we've still managed to continue the streak AT LEAST 2 years too many.
i've said it before, and as someone that's seen each of those 25 games, our program has to get over the hump mentally. that's not a reflection of the current players or coaches, every coach that's been here in the last 25 years has been a part of this "streak", and the current 11 game streak. so for it to change, there has to be a group led by people that can get over it. i do think this group is the group that can lay that foundation and have it carry over to the next group and so on.
that's a culture issue, and i think the culture, is and has been heading in the right direction from a 'winning program' standpoint.
and it's set up for this year to be the year that we hit the reset button and start over.
