-
New here? Register here now for access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Plus, stay connected and follow BP on Instagram @buckeyeplanet and Facebook.
- Thread starter Buckeyeskickbuttocks
- Start date
scarletngrey11
All right, all right, all right.
Watching the FSU offense makes me want to hang myself.
Upvote
0
Miller_Time
Junior
The slim shot that Flordia had just got kicked to the curmb today IMO. I don't think they did nearly enough against a mediocre team.
Upvote
0
WaitingforKickoff
Legend
So if they beat Arkansas by 17 next week, who's going to remember that they beat FSU by seven? As long as they beat Arkansas, the Gators will jump ahead of Michigan. Mark it down.
Upvote
0
OSUBasketballJunkie
Never Forget 31-0
Dispatch
NO. 4 FLORIDA 21 FLORIDA STATE 14
Leak keeps Gators in hunt
Florida keeps hopes alive of reaching title game
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Mark Long
ASSOCIATED PRESS
</IMG> PHIL COALE ASSOCIATED PRESS Florida State receiver Greg Carr, top, catches a 25-yard touchdown pass over Florida?s Reggie Lewis.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ? Florida coach Urban Meyer gathered his offensive linemen and gave a simple message: Protect the quarterback.
He was counting on Chris Leak to do the rest ? and keep the fourth-ranked Gators in the national championship hunt. The often-criticized senior quarterback came through, directing one of the best drives of his career when Florida needed it most and delivering a 21-14 win over Florida State yesterday.
"I told coach to just open it up and let me go pick them apart," Leak said.
Leak was 7 of 8 for 79 yards on the winning drive early in the fourth quarter. He called an audible on third down, recognizing a blitz and checking to a skinny post, and hooked up with Dallas Baker for a 25-yard gain. He connected with Baker again two plays later for a 25-yard score.
The Gators (11-1) still have a shot to reach the national title game against Ohio State. But they must beat Arkansas in the Southeastern Conference championship game Saturday and have Southern California lose to get consideration over Michigan.
Florida, fourth in the last Bowl Championship Series standings, didn?t get any style points with its latest win.
"Here?s our style: You got at Tennessee, you?ve got Kentucky, you?ve got Alabama, LSU, Georgia and Auburn and at Tallahassee," Meyer said, recalling much of Florida?s schedule. "So much for style. You want to put that one against anyone in the country, let?s go ahead and go.
"If that?s what?s making decisions, then I?m going to stand by my comment from a week ago. Implode it. It?s over. If that?s what?s making the decisions ? style points, which I imagine that?s what it is ? we?ve got a problem. It?s called winning and losing and playing a difficult schedule."
Florida won its third straight against Florida State and improved to 6-0 against its three main rivals ? Tennessee, Georgia and Florida State ? in Meyer?s two seasons.
"I think they?re doggone good," Florida State coach Bobby Bowden said. "They looked darn second to that 1996 (national title) team they had. That?s how they looked to me. So much skill running around out there you have to be able to contain them all day long. If they didn?t have such a good quarterback that can get them the ball, then we could have handled it. Their quarterback can do it."
The Seminoles (6-6) had two chances to even the score, but they failed to convert on fourth down twice ? once in Florida territory and once deep in their own end.
The Gators led 14-0 at halftime ? Andre Caldwell caught a screen pass and turned it into a 66-yard score and Percy Harvin had a 41-yard TD run from the quarterback position. They could have been ahead more, but Chris Hetland missed two short field goals and is 3 of 12 for the season.
The misses almost proved costly, too.
Joe Surratt scored from a yard out in the third quarter and the Seminoles tied the score in the fourth on Drew Weatherford?s 25-yard TD pass to Greg Carr.
But Leak rallied the Gators on the ensuing drive. "The momentum kind of swung our way and they took it right back, like a good team is supposed to," said Weatherford, who was 16 of 37 for 181 yards with three interceptions. "They really played well and made more big plays than we did and less mistakes than we did, and that is why they won the game."
Upvote
0
cincibuck
You kids stay off my lawn!
Tresselbeliever;670097; said:
Nah, baby, nah... Florida's football rep has no legs other than "SEC team." The media, and hence the votes, hang out in places like NY/BOSTON/DC (Notre Dame), Chicago (BIG 10/ND) and LA (USC - PAC 10). After yesterday ND will slip... the gators will creep closer and USC will push Michigan to #3 because most writers don't want to see a rematch.
Loved the USC sign, "Only Bob Hope spent more time with the US Military than Notre Dame."
Give Weiss some props, his offense can score 21 on anyone... just as his defense can give up 42 to anybody with a half decent QB and 21 to anyone without.
Upvote
0