A quick fact about the Gators

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PowerT83

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The Florida Gators have not played an OOC opponent on the road outside the state of Florida since 1991 when they were beaten by the Syracuse Orangemen.

It aint right
 
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Georgia's game at Arizona State next year will be UGA's first non-bowl road game outside the south in over 50 years. Auburn has only played two games outside the south in like 25 years. Just a couple examples. Tennessee's has been pretty good, as an exception.

And because everybody jumps on me when I say this, I'll put it in a compliment sandwich:

The SEC is the best football conference in America. Non-conference scheduling by the SEC's power programs has been generally atrocious for the better part of the last quarter century. The SEC is the best football conference in America.
 
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BTW UF really cant help if F$U and UM are both instate...those typically were tough OOC opponents til recently.
 
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Wow thats a big culture shock UM & FSU.

I want to see Florida play Texas, Ou, Oregon & Washington
 
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Willingham will have the Huskies back I believe. And Husky Stadium is a helluva environment
 
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It is.

But I don't know about Willingham. Washington isn't producing the HS football talent that it used to. Usually like 4-5 top 100 type guys a year on average. Jake Locker being a shining example. But succeeding in the Pac-10 nowadays means getting a coach who can recruit the hell out of Cali. And USC and Cal still have it on lockdown.
 
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The Wizard of Odds: Who Travels, Who Doesn't

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The SEC as a whole sucks at traveling. Obviously, it's not exactly fair to count the WAC's travels with Hawaii being in the conference. It's a minimum of 2400 miles for every game Hawaii plays. Either they travel to the mainland or someone travels to Honolulu
 
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NCGatorBait said:
BTW UF really cant help if F$U and UM are both instate...those typically were tough OOC opponents til recently.
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You cowards have been running from the U for the better part of 20 years. Don't act like you've scheduled them with any regularity.
 
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hatvol96 said:
You cowards have been running from the U for the better part of 20 years. Don't act like you've scheduled them with any regularity.
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Yeah it's funny the U was no where around in the 90's during their probation days...it'll be nice smacking those guys around the next couple yrs.:eek:lol:
 
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milohimself said:
Cool blog.
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i thought so. regardless of how "good" the SEC is, it's kind of sad out of the 8 teams who have traveled the least, seven of them are SEC schools.

I tried and tried to post some of the graphs, but they aren't working.
 
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It is amazing how little UGA has traveled. Thankfully they are changing that in the next few years.

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GAVol said:
Whatever I can do to help. :p

Just right click on the graph and choose 'Copy Image Location' then click on the image icon above the text box in here and paste the url in.
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ah. I was using the graph properties website and posting that. They must somehow be different
 
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Conferencetravel.jpg

notice the bigger the conference, the further down the list it is. With the exception of possibly the Big East (now moving ahead of the Big 10 and ACC), I would think most people would rank the BCS schools in reverse order of their amount of travel.
 
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A lot of it can be chalked up to simple population density. Stuff is closer together the farther east you go in the U.S.
 
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i would really like to see the WAC's stats sans Hawaii.

That being said, doesn't Hawaii and Louisiana Tech have a home and home rivalry just about every year?
 
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Unbelievably though, Hawaii vs. La Tech is a conference game. La Tech is now in the WAC.
 
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