Thoughts so far:
Both teams look like good 8 win teams. Prior to watching this game I thought Randy Shannon would get fired. No one knows the extent of the QB injury yet, and if it is bad he may still get fired.
You know Cannon Smith and Taylor Cook feel stupid at this point.
The Miami schedule is after this:
September 17 No. 15 Georgia Tech probably loss
September 26 at No. 7 Virginia Tech probably loss
October 3 No. 3 Oklahoma Who knows with Bradford out?
October 10 Florida A&M definite win
October 17 at UCF almost definite win
October 24 Clemson 50/50
October 31 at Wake Forest 50/50
November 7 Virginia definite win
November 14 at No. 21 North Carolina 50/50
Before ending with two gimme wins over Duke and South Florida.
Now the reason I am posting here instead of "Around the NCAA" where the mods take many of my threads to die is because I am watching this game as it impacts TN football.
Coach Gran mainly recruits studs in Florida and many of the guys he wants us to get after are choosing between us and either Miami or FSU. If Miami implodes with a serious QB injury and has a horrid year while we win 9, it helps us get some of those guys, especially the ones like Arie Kouandjio who are from out of state and just want to get PT and win in a high profile program.
We want FSU leans Jeff Luc and Lamarcus Joyner. Ideally for us both of these teams have at least 3 losses this year and look further from championship level football than we do.
FSU rest of the way will crush Jacksonville State on the 9/12 at home,
then they have on the 19th an away game at BYU
I really think they could lose that game, and I really think Coach O could get a lot of mileage out of that loss.
Then 9/26 they beat USF at home.
Then 10/3 they beat BC on the road.
10/10 they have GT at home. We are not competing with GT for any big recruits and we have such dramatically different styles on offense (and their style sucks for the NFL) that we should be cheering for the yellow jackets.
10/22 they play UNC in a Thursday night game on the road. We are going against Butch Davis for some UNC kids, but it would be nice for FSU to lose this one as well. Take them out of BCS talk.
10/31 they play the team SC beat 7-3 last thursday, NC State.
11/7 they have Clemson
11/14 Wake Forest on the road.
11/21 Maryland at home
11/28 the Thanksgiving game we all watch every year, FSU versus Florida. They are playing on the road.
We want FSU to lose to BYU, GT and another ACC team this year. We want Miami to have 4 losses. If that happens it helps the recruiting for the University of Tennessee a great deal!