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caneingville said:
The gator comes close? For me, ND and UF are pretty evenly tied.

It's not discussed enough that the University of Florida (yes, the ACTUAL university, as what I am about to tell you was posted on its website for years) and its fanbase truly believe that 9/11 cost the Gators the 2001 championship. You read that right. They actually 100% believe that, if not for 9/11 and Bin Laden, they would have been the 2001 BCS National Champions.

But wait a second? You might ask. How can that be, when they didn't even play in the championship game? In fact, they didn't even play in the SEC Championship game? And didn't they also lose two games in the regular season that year, to Auburn and Tennessee?

That's right!

But you see, up until this current season, Tennessee and Florida has always played each other in Week 3, which during the 2001 season, was the weekend after 9/11. UF was heavily favored to win, but the game got rescheduled for 12/1 that year. Tennessee had some key injuries that would have impacted them in September, but they were healed up by the time the game was played in December.

The way the Gators tell it, if the game hadn't been rescheduled due to 9/11, they DEFINITELY would have beaten Tennessee, and then they would have gone on to the SEC Championship game. Of course, that means they DEFINITELY would have won the SEC Championship against LSU, then gone on to the Natty and easily beaten us.

Too bad Bin Laden ****ed it all up for them. :rolleyes:
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Well at least they are a creative group.
 
RVACane said:
It’s sickening man and it needs to be stopped. And teams, including Miami need to drop ND and refuse to schedule them if this MOU is effective. Imagine beating ND at the End of the year, having the same record as them and then getting jumped by them.
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It would have happened to us THIS YEAR. It's crazy and absolutely goes against everything college football should stand for.

It's bad enough that there are auto bids for conference champs who aren't even in the top 15 but to give a single team with no conference affiliation who makes their own schedule this kind of special treatment is absolutely criminal and defies any logic. ND has ZERO leverage. I'm not sure why ANYBODY, let alone ALL the commissioners would agree to it. And that's on top of ND even having the naive oblivion to even ask for it.
 
caneingville said:
The gator comes close? For me, ND and UF are pretty evenly tied.

It's not discussed enough that the University of Florida (yes, the ACTUAL university, as what I am about to tell you was posted on its website for years) and its fanbase truly believe that 9/11 cost the Gators the 2001 championship. You read that right. They actually 100% believe that, if not for 9/11 and Bin Laden, they would have been the 2001 BCS National Champions.

But wait a second? You might ask. How can that be, when they didn't even play in the championship game? In fact, they didn't even play in the SEC Championship game? And didn't they also lose two games in the regular season that year, to Auburn and Tennessee?

That's right!

But you see, up until this current season, Tennessee and Florida has always played each other in Week 3, which during the 2001 season, was the weekend after 9/11. UF was heavily favored to win, but the game got rescheduled for 12/1 that year. Tennessee had some key injuries that would have impacted them in September, but they were healed up by the time the game was played in December.

The way the Gators tell it, if the game hadn't been rescheduled due to 9/11, they DEFINITELY would have beaten Tennessee, and then they would have gone on to the SEC Championship game. Of course, that means they DEFINITELY would have won the SEC Championship against LSU, then gone on to the Natty and easily beaten us.

Too bad Bin Laden ****ed it all up for them. :rolleyes:
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That was his nefarious plan all along. The towers coming down was just the cherry on top for him.
 
caneingville said:
The gator comes close? For me, ND and UF are pretty evenly tied.

It's not discussed enough that the University of Florida (yes, the ACTUAL university, as what I am about to tell you was posted on its website for years) and its fanbase truly believe that 9/11 cost the Gators the 2001 championship. You read that right. They actually 100% believe that, if not for 9/11 and Bin Laden, they would have been the 2001 BCS National Champions.

But wait a second? You might ask. How can that be, when they didn't even play in the championship game? In fact, they didn't even play in the SEC Championship game? And didn't they also lose two games in the regular season that year, to Auburn and Tennessee?

That's right!

But you see, up until this current season, Tennessee and Florida has always played each other in Week 3, which during the 2001 season, was the weekend after 9/11. UF was heavily favored to win, but the game got rescheduled for 12/1 that year. Tennessee had some key injuries that would have impacted them in September, but they were healed up by the time the game was played in December.

The way the Gators tell it, if the game hadn't been rescheduled due to 9/11, they DEFINITELY would have beaten Tennessee, and then they would have gone on to the SEC Championship game. Of course, that means they DEFINITELY would have won the SEC Championship against LSU, then gone on to the Natty and easily beaten us.

Too bad Bin Laden ****ed it all up for them. :rolleyes:
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This is 100% the head-canon of gator nation.

I'll add that they also believe they would have won the head to head, despite losing the year before and both years after.

Delusion isn't strong enough a term to describe the state of mind that UiF fans occupy.
 
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