Quote:You keep saying SEC this, SEC that. Let me teach you a thing or two about scheduling. The majority of UFs games are against the SEC East, the next major chunk of games are out of conference, followed by TWO SEC West games.


The SEC East is by far the worst division of the Power 5 and it's not even close. The S&P+ rankings have the East closer to the AAC West and MAC West then to the PAC-12 North. So the majority of games UF plays is against the worst division in football. Just to break it down: The East is 1-9 against the West. The East also has only ONE win against a non-conference opponent from a Power 5 conference all year. Only 2 teams from the East have winning records, compared to all but 2 in the West. Only 1 team in the East has a winning SEC record, compared to all but 2 in the West. The division schedule should be a walk through; I can think of a few AAC teams that could easily play those games and walk out undefeated. Very sad, I know. RESULT: Much, much, much more difficult schedule for FSU.


The next chunk of UFs schedule is out of conference. The only permanent game is FSU. UF is 1-4 in the last 5 games. The rest of UFs OOC slate are cupcakes. The last time UF played an OOC out of state opponent was their 1991 loss to Syracuse. Since that time, FSU has had OOC match ups against Louisville 2x, LSU, #3 Michigan, , #19 BYU, #2 ND, Kansas, #21 Southern Cal, #14 Texas AM, Iowa State, ND, Syracuse, Colorado, #9 BYU, #10 Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State. Oh, and FSU plays Ole Miss and Alabama the next week years. You just have to look at next year's schedule to see the norm for UF: UMass, North Texas, and Presbyterian. RESULT: Much, much, much more difficult OOC schedule for FSU.


The last 2 games of UFs schedule comes from the SEC West. This proves to be the only difficult part of UFs schedule, and one as of late they have had a terrible time getting past. They are 2 -4 against the West over the last 3 seasons. With that said, the SEC West is the best division in college football. So, RESULT: Much, much, much harder 2 game slate for UF.


But when you look at the whole picture it's easy to see who has the easiest path to the title and it's clearly UF. The majority of their games are against the worst division in the Power 5, coupled with cupcakes that most people didn't even know existed.