Those of you who had Florida -73 are probably pissed tonight as UF played at half speed, defeating Charleston Southern 62-3. Other than renewing our faith in Jeff Demps, Brandon James and Chris Rainey being really fast, nothing was accomplished. Carl Johnson was injured, which will test the depth of the offensive line. But since Florida only threw the ball 18 times, we didn't get to see who else wants to catch the ball. One of the bad things about these games is that once Florida is up big, you don't want to pitch it around and upset the Football Gods by running it up against a 1-AA team. Next week against Troy will be a more legitmate challenge. However, Troy lost this week to Bowling Green 31-14, allowing 31 unanswered points. That is not shaping up to be a challenge either.
As for Charleston Southern, I understand the benefits to Florida (gameday revenue and extra reps) and to Charleston ($450,000). But they looked like they were wearing high school jerseys and Florida was at half speed. The games against 1-AA teams are glorified scrimmages (save for Northern Iowa-Iowa and William&Mary-Virginia). If you try to find anything in this game to judge UF on, you're making a mistake. Save that for Troy and Tennessee in Hate Bowl 2009.
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Don’t forget Duke-Richmond in the category of “it’s a glorified scrimmage unless we lose or at least get pushed real hard.”
peachy rex - September 5, 2009
CSU played really well for what I was expecting, actually.
bdalebs - September 5, 2009
really?
Patssuck456 - September 8, 2009
CONSIDERING ITS CSU
IM FROM FL, BUT USAF HAS ME ABOUT 10MIN FROM CSU AND YES ITS FOOTBALL STADIUM IF U WANT TO CALL IT THAT IS THE SAME SIZE AS MY HIGH SCHOOLS. SO YEA THEY PLAYED WELL CONSIDERING…
Hook85 - September 9, 2009
ummm, wow
big win
samdaman - September 6, 2009
One Thing.
There were two horrific drops in that game (I know Thompson was one, but the other escapes me). Riley Cooper and Aaron Hernandez all day, man.
ejruiz - September 6, 2009
Brandon James in the endzone – that was the drive Tebow finished off himself. James had trouble with punts early in the game, too, but his hands got better as things went along.
peachy rex - September 6, 2009
Right.
Well, at least the James drop didn’t kill the drive, but the Thompson one (which would have been a huge play) ended up being a punt.
ejruiz - September 6, 2009
I think Hammond dropped one too
but otherwise showed some flashes. I also still like Moody and wish he’s get more carries. He might just be one of those “gamer” types who is better in the game than in practice.
skigator93 - September 8, 2009
Riley Cooper is Flash in disguise
Riley ran down Brandon James after almost falling in order to block for James on his kick off return. that’s fast.
And I bet it was only half speed, so he didn’t show off his super powers.
ECFIVESTER - September 8, 2009
yea that game actually made me nervous
looks like are passing game is gonna be 81 this year
Hook85 - September 9, 2009
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