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Looking at the history of college football over the past 40 years, it's hard to dispute that the state of Florida has outshone the rest of the country by a decent margin. But the argument as to which school is historically the best in the state is a hotly contested one--with FSU, Florida, and Miami all having passionate fanbases and amazing resumes.
When conversations spring up about the next school to join the 8 traditional blue blood programs, FSU, Miami, and Florida all find themselves in the conversation. So I decided to do some digging into their stats to see which university really stakes the strongest claim as best in the state of Florida


School​
Record*​
Win %​
AP/Coaches Nattys​
Undefeated Seasons​
AP/Coaches Top 5**​
AP/Coaches Top 10**​
AP/Coaches Top 25**​
Florida278-90-475.2%3/307/1116/1927/26
FSU282-85-476.5%3/3216/1721/1932/31
Miami283-80-078.0%4/5312/1214/1524/27
*This figure includes wins vacated by FSU in 2006-2007
**Florida was AP ineligible in 1985, 1986, and 1990. Miami was ineligible in 1995.
Some more fun facts:

  • FSU finished in the AP/Coaches Top 5 for 14 straight years (1987-2000)
  • Miami finished in the AP/Coaches Top 3 for 7 straight years (1986-1992)
  • In the 1990s, their combined record was 303-60-2 with win % of 83.3%
  • 1997 Miami had the only losing record of the decade (5-6)
  • All three teams finished in the Coaches Top 10 in 1991, 1992, 1994, and 2000
  • FSU leads Florida 21-20-1
  • Miami leads FSU 22-19
  • Miami leads Florida 10-5

So who do you think is the best program in Florida?
 
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People seriously still talk about Miami joining the Blue Blood programs? Is this post from 2005 or something?

At this point, I think the main consensus outside of the Canes fanbase (and even to some extent in the Canes fanbase) is that Miami football is done forever.
 
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aardvark said:
People seriously still talk about Miami joining the Blue Blood programs? Is this post from 2005 or something?

At this point, I think the main consensus outside of the Canes fanbase (and even to some extent in the Canes fanbase) is that Miami football is done forever.
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No one with a functioning brain thinks Miami football is done forever. We just are stuck with the worst corch in our school history.
 
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OriginalGatorHater said:
No one with a functioning brain thinks Miami football is done forever. We just are stuck with the worst corch in our school history.
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A quick look on Wikipedia at Miami football history shows what the actual norm of Miami football is. I’ll give you a hint: it’s basically everything outside the period 1981-2003.


OriginalGatorHater said:
It was posted yesterday.

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It only uses data from 1980-2009. A little odd how they exclude the last 10 years of CFB for this. Our win % falls more than 50 points if you include 2010-2019.

Even a cursory look shows that there are too few games in there to cover 40 years.
 
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aardvark said:
People seriously still talk about Miami joining the Blue Blood programs? Is this post from 2005 or something?

At this point, I think the main consensus outside of the Canes fanbase (and even to some extent in the Canes fanbase) is that Miami football is done forever.
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Well, at least if the status quo remains...we will never be the Miami of old. Kill the corrupt NCAA that enforces by favorites and limit salaries...who knows?

There is no reason with what we have in our backyard that we can't catch lightning in a bottle occasionally regardless....
 
OriginalGatorHater said:
No one with a functioning brain thinks Miami football is done forever. We just are stuck with the worst corch in our school history.
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No, I take it more that we're still recovering from a decade of underspending from the previous UM administration. It's like an elite athlete running a marathon, but unlike other competitors he has a parachute attached to him. The parachute is now off (or riddled with holes), but there is still a lot of ground to make up.
 
USNAVYCANE said:
Looking at the history of college football over the past 40 years, it's hard to dispute that the state of Florida has outshone the rest of the country by a decent margin. But the argument as to which school is historically the best in the state is a hotly contested one--with FSU, Florida, and Miami all having passionate fanbases and amazing resumes.
When conversations spring up about the next school to join the 8 traditional blue blood programs, FSU, Miami, and Florida all find themselves in the conversation. So I decided to do some digging into their stats to see which university really stakes the strongest claim as best in the state of Florida


School​
Record*​
Win %​
AP/Coaches Nattys​
Undefeated Seasons​
AP/Coaches Top 5**​
AP/Coaches Top 10**​
AP/Coaches Top 25**​
Florida278-90-475.2%3/307/1116/1927/26
FSU282-85-476.5%3/3216/1721/1932/31
Miami283-80-078.0%4/5312/1214/1524/27
*This figure includes wins vacated by FSU in 2006-2007
**Florida was AP ineligible in 1985, 1986, and 1990. Miami was ineligible in 1995.
Some more fun facts:

  • FSU finished in the AP/Coaches Top 5 for 14 straight years (1987-2000)
  • Miami finished in the AP/Coaches Top 3 for 7 straight years (1986-1992)
  • In the 1990s, their combined record was 303-60-2 with win % of 83.3%
  • 1997 Miami had the only losing record of the decade (5-6)
  • All three teams finished in the Coaches Top 10 in 1991, 1992, 1994, and 2000
  • FSU leads Florida 21-20-1
  • Miami leads FSU 22-19
  • Miami leads Florida 10-5

So who do you think is the best program in Florida?
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The Egyptians, Assyrians, and Ottoman Turks were once great empires. Ghengis Khan and his grandson Kublah Kahn created an actual (vs de facto) land empire that has never been matched. Spain once had the greatest navy sailing the oceans blue.

Historically, our Canes were the better program. Now they are UCG.

No one gives a fuq.

Yesterday doesn't matter. Today and building for tomorrow are the only focus.

UF by a mile is best program in Florida today and tomorrow.
 
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