If We Beat Florida & Go 9-3 Is The Season Still Acceptable?

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Orange_Vol1321 said:
Most predictions including Vegas had us at 9-3 or 8-4.
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Mostly because they thought UGA Alabama and Oklahoma were going to be clearly better than us and that we had no chance to win.

The reality was we were good enough to win all three games and we caused ourselves to lose them all. Independent of anything the other 3 teams did to us. That's why the people who are mad are mad.

We didn't expect our coaching staff to blunder through this season. We were just supposed to suck at qb because of pajama boy's last minute drama.

But instead we have way too many damned penalties, clock management is ****, the o-line largely sucks, we can't kick field goals and we can't ****en tackle. This is all horrendous, and not even remotely kinda OK. This ain't year one of a new coach.
 
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Go Bog Orange! Finish strong, who would have thought Aguilar would have had us nearly beating the 3 teams weve lost to.
The missing injured starting cornerbacks cost us for sure.
 
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Would be in line with most predictions for our season. I’d live with it, but it would be hard to ignore what could’ve been.
 
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We have lost to Zook, Muschamp, the Shark guy, and Billy at the swamp. We have lost to 2nd and 3rd string QBs, we lost on 2 Hail Marys during Butch’s era. We have lost to terrible Florida teams that finished .500 or worse. Forgive me for not being optimistic that we have an chance whatsoever down there, even with an interim coach and depleted roster. I haven’t seen anything with this years team that gives me confidence at all that we will beat Florida or Vandy. The better question is “when does this season become unacceptable”. If we lose to both, the honeymoon is over for CJH.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
No. Beating a Florida team in the Swamp that has an interim coach is not some big achievement. Sure we break the streak but we literally had to have the game against them moved to the end of the year and them to fire their coach to have a shot at winning down there.

We have failed a lot of simple expectations this year.

Losing record to our biggest 3 rivals, didn’t contend for Atlanta, didn’t contend for the playoff, and we got bowl eligible.

This season is about as successful as 2023 and that was a nothing burger year.
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Ive seen this same post in the last 3 threads Ive visited. You dont have to keep repeating it until everyone agrees. Its okay if others disagree and think of you the same as you think of them.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
I’m sorry but why are we using the state of the program that Heupel took over as the measuring stick? It only took him 2 seasons to turn it around. With that great season, he raised the expectations. People using 2020 as the measuring stick need to stop sunshine pumping
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You keep thinking, Butch.

‘22 was a miracle season but it couldn’t eliminate the fact Pruitt’s ‘21 class was a complete bust (minus JWright) & the NCAA pressure had on recruiting in ‘22 & ‘23.
 
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Chaplain_Vol said:
I think so, what say you?

We would’ve beaten a Florida team on the road for the first time in over 20 years, have our best recruiting class as of yet (if everything holds up) and make it out with a 9 win season with a chance to win 10 in a bowl game.
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You serious Clark?
 
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No. Its all we can hope for now but not acceptable with the way we played, cowed down at Bama, and the way they sheet the bed AT HOME, IN A RIDICULOUSLY LOUD ATMOSPHERE, against OU. The fans continously show up and show out for this team and we get rewarded with that type of effort.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
What I'm saying is in his 5th season, Huepel should not be having these "gap" years anymore, if he were recruiting and pulling from the portal at the level he should be. 9-3 and going to a decent bowl might have been a decent season 3 years ago, but not in 2025. The 12 team (and soon to be 16) playoff changed all that.
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Valid point. The reality of today is so different than it was for a majors or fulmer. Going to 9 sec games on top of spread of talent in sec top to bottom and thinning of quality depth means you better have the right coach who can win with consistent fundamentals on top of talent. UGA could easily have 3 losses but Kirby’s teams grind, don’t beat themselves and when the game is on the line they make plays.
 
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If 9-3 or 8-4 seasons are CJH's floor in off years, we'll be in great shape for the long haul. 'Nough said.
 
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We could finish out the season 3-0, 2-1 or 1-2. No matter how they finish there will always be complainers
 
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Gandalf said:
Acceptable? no. The reality of NCAA football now is you make the CFP or you are nothing.

Will I be happy about draining the swamp and be willing to give Heupel and team due credit for that? Absolutely.
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So basically when any team has no chance to make the playoffs they should just quit playing, don't show up - don't participate.

That means, UT just needs to cancel the last three games and award us ties for two of the games and a victory to Vandy. But then again Vandy is 16 and needs a lot of help they may not get - so maybe they shouldn't play either - so we just take a 6-3-3 record and be done with it.

Sometimes I long for the day when the playoffs did not exist and teams played for their school and their pride.
 
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Winning on the field requires a culture that money can't provide. Certain type players take over and don't let their team lose. How much they make does not matter in that instance.
 
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Coming into this season, the overwhelming thought for this team was:

7-5 is below expectations.

8-4 is meeting expectations

9-3or better is exceeding expectations
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
What I'm saying is in his 5th season, Huepel should not be having these "gap" years anymore, if he were recruiting and pulling from the portal at the level he should be. 9-3 and going to a decent bowl might have been a decent season 3 years ago, but not in 2025. The 12 team (and soon to be 16) playoff changed all that.
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Good grief! We live in a world where it is likely that half of the 12 teams will have two losses. Last year in the final ranking that set the 12, we had teams with 3 losses at 11, 14 and 15. The only reason number 11 did not get in was because there were upsets in the conference games.

And we may even end up with a 3-loss team making it this year - time will tell.

I do expect we will eventually see a 3-loss team in the 12 and will definitely see that if the number of teams grows to 16.
 
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Carp said:
Coming into this season, the overwhelming thought for this team was:

7-5 is below expectations.

8-4 is meeting expectations

9-3or better is exceeding expectations
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Exactly - most got their hopes up, me included, with the potential - but in reality, to make the playoffs a team has to be (1) really good or (2) really lucky - and in the SEC both of those depend upon have a very favorable schedule.
 
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Considering we only brought back three starters on offense, lost both starting corners and lost a lot of talent on the defensive front, I'm really not too disappointed with the season. If we go 9-3, I would consider that a good season. According to on 3 sports, we have the sixteenth best roster in the country and, at 9-3, we would probably be ranked higher than our talent level.
 
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Of course it will be. It is above what 90% of the forecasters predicted and we have had to play almost the entire season without our two "Allstar" Conor backs. Add to that, having to sign a last minute QB who do not know anything about our complicated offense. Nico deserted the team. While our New QB played several really good gam4s, he still made a number of mistakes which the team was unable to overcome. Under the these circumstances, I am , somewhat, surprised have done as well as we have. If we win out, the season Ould have been very good.
 
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Carp said:
Coming into this season, the overwhelming thought for this team was:

7-5 is below expectations.

8-4 is meeting expectations

9-3or better is exceeding expectations
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It is tough to reconcile that with Aguilar being 10X better than anyone expected. It’s borderline miraculous.
 
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