Can't wait. I'm predicting a Florida beatdown. Gainesville is a lot closer to Orlando than Miami, expect that one to be pretty much a home game for Florida.
Florida should be a very good team this year. Miami? Not so sure. Really think the Hurricanes day in the sun has probably come and gone. They had an amazing unbelievable run- but I think their moment has come and gone. Kind of like Minnesota in the 1930's & 1940's. Dominant for a couple decades and then slowly just slip into mediocrity. The top players in South Florida go everywhere now, Miami doesn't have a monopoly on those kids like they used to have.
I really think the top players today are all about social media and feeling the love from the fans and the gameday experience with 90-100k fans in attendance at the games. Well, Miami has like zero fans. Everyone from South Florida is.......not from South Florida. They like other teams or they like other sports or they like to do other things than watch sports. Lots of people there, but not lots of college football fans. Miami plays at the Dolphins' NFL stadium and those games are typically 50% empty or more. Miami doesn't have their own stadium on campus and they never will because Miami is a small private school and the land in Coral Gables is just too damn expensive and there's really none of it left. For them to get a legit stadium that holds 80-100k on or near campus like all the helmets have- by the time they bought the land, went through the entilement and development process and built the stadium- probably $1 billion. That ain't happening.
