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I don't know how good USCe or LSU will turn out to be.  Both COULD be mediocre indeed (6-6ish).  

If so, Florida could have a gaudy record if they hold serve (10-2).

Like LSU, it probably comes down to QB play, though most think Mullen is the better coach.

They appear to have an outside shot at 11-1 and the CG in Atl, better than I had been thinking before considering the schedule.

FSU gets a lot back also with a first year coach, but that game doesn't "count" for UF ...

My "if everything goes right" is about this for each team, realistic considerations, like how it happened for UGA last year:

UGA 12-0
UF  11-1
USCe 11-1
Mizzou  9-3
UK 8-4
Tenn 7-5
Vandy 6-6

This means the apparent holes in the team fill up reasonably well and they win most of their close games.

If things go wrong, you can probably take 3-4-5 wins off that list, or more for UF and USCe.  I suppose each could fade to 7-5, or 6-6, injuries, distractions, losing close games.

Little chance = some chance, which in these cases means that the opponents cited turn out to be less good than expected, and everything falls into place for USCe and UF.

I do agree that 11-1 is a real stretch, perhaps 10-2 would be better.

Like LSU, it probably comes down to QB play, though most think Mullen is the better coach.

It's more about the OL for LSU than the QB.  I hate to deem a guy who's never played a down in the SEC a known quantity, but it's a pretty safe bet what he'll be.  He'll be "fine."  Similar to Danny Etling last year, who had (I think) the best efficiency in the conference and did a lot of things you want to see, yet still managed to be more or less non-threatening.  Nobody said "Oh crap, our defense faces Etling next week."  Burrow is almost certainly going to have a season that's "good enough" if everybody else does their job fairly well.  He's not going to be a force that makes things happen on his own or covers up for a lackluster line and/or receivers who struggle.  
The OL is a bigger concern.  There's a potential for a wild swing here.  They stand to be very good by the end of the year, maybe even hovering near the best lines in the league for next year's pre-season prognostications if everybody stays healthy and out of jail.  But they're going to struggle out of the gate this year.  I don't care how talented they are, they don't have enough starts and starts together to be a dominant unit.  Miami is a rough first test, the U was very good at collapsing the pocket and rushing the QB last year.  As the OL goes, this offense will go.  The WRs will be about like the QB, they'll be "fine" if the line allows things to happen.  They won't break any games open by themselves.  
If the line plays well, the offense will probably start "okay" and end the season up "pretty good."  If the line can't get it together the offense will be stuck in "Oh hey look, LSU's offense sucks again" until further notice.