Official: Game Week Thread: FAU vs Gators
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Official: Game Week Thread: FAU vs Gators
have we been higher than that before??
(cant remember)
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Enough of me being Negative (honest)!
I do want to see Serge and Kris knock some heads off!
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I think we hang tight for a while, but then once our second strings get in, Florida takes over. They have depth.
I take FAU and 34 points though.
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smittysahoot said
I like being the underdog. We have nothing to lose. 34 points seems a bit much. That was the spread on the Clemson game last year and they covered the spread (by a lot more than 34). South Carolina wasn't as much as Clemson, but they beat us pretty soundly too.
I think we hang tight for a while, but then once our second strings get in, Florida takes over. They have depth.
I take FAU and 34 points though.
It's probably a fair assessment but as always, let's hope it's closer than that.
I'd hate to have driven narly 5 hours to see us get shutout something like 55-0.
As I see it, the problem will not be as much matching up to them head-to-head but rather staying healthy and energized through all four quarters.
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Gators have history with FAU coach | Gatorsports.comThe Gainesville Sun
Nov 13, 2007
Gators have history with FAU coach
By PAT DOOLEY
Sun sports columnist
You may notice him, the guy two rows over and four seats down. Or the woman wearing too much make-up in Section 13. Or the fella with the graying mustache in the end zone.
Don't they seem to be booing a little extra hard?
Great googly-moogly, it's Florida Atlantic. This isn't Tennessee or FSU taking the field in The Swamp. Chill pill, west stands, stat!
But they remember.
It was 27 years ago. Howard Schnellenberger has had almost as many jobs since then as Homer Simpson (188 as of the last episode of "The Simpsons").
But they remember.
“I hope so,” Schnellenberger said Monday.
Urban Meyer has taken a lot of history lessons since coming to Florida. He has leaned on his players for a feel of the rivalry games. He has talked to his staff about other coaches.
But for this one, you had to be there to understand why the guy behind the glass in the president's box has his fist clenched and the older couple in the blue chairbacks are cursing when the Owls take the field.
Since the two teams have never played before, there is no UF-FAU rivalry, but this is a rivalry game for longtime Gator fans.
It's them vs. that dadgum Schnellenberger.
Here's a little primer for Meyer, his players, the entire Florida Atlantic student body and Gator fans who don't know there used to be dugouts at Florida Field (and a guy dressed as a banana who danced while students chanted “Go bananas! Go-go bananas!”)
Florida used to play Miami every year. Really, I'm not making it up. But this isn't about the ending of the series on a regular basis.
This is about the game that was played at Florida Field in 1980. Florida was ranked, Miami was not. There was a lot of bitterness between the two schools, some of it fueled by the Florida Flop (hey, I've only got so many words per column so I can't explain everything) and Miami envy.
But this was a day for Schnellenberger's Hurricanes. They rolled through the Gators in a stunning upset 31-7. It's how Miami got to 31 that caused some animosity.
The Hurricanes led 28-7, game almost over. The clock was running out and both teams were about to head into the dank locker rooms to peel off sweat-stained mesh jerseys. But — and I can say this because I had graduated four years earlier — the Florida students were a little out of control.
Taunts turned to gestures. Miami players answered back. And then it got ugly.
“They had frozen oranges,” Schnellenberger said. “They'd cut a hole in these oranges, add the juice (I'm guessing the juice was Russian) and freeze them so they'd be cold during the game.”
Game almost over and oranges drained, they started flying. One hit a Miami cheerleader, another hit Schnellenberger's son in the head.
The Miami coach was furious. He called time-out.
“(Former Gator) Kim Helton, who was one of my assistants, told me not to send the guys out there,” he said. “But I told him I have to or else nobody is going to listen to what I have to say. I wanted the press to ask me about why we did it.”
What Miami did was kick a meaningless field goal that meant a lot to Florida fans. Schnellenberger was criticized by the media who covered the Gators for staining a well-coached game and supported by the Miami media for sticking up for his players.
“Those oranges were coming like cannon balls from pirate ships,” he said. “That whole scene had an impact on Florida, too. (Former UF president) Marshall Criser told me they moved the student section because of that.”
Schnellenberger has been back since that 1980 game. His 1982 team lost on James Jones' famous catch and was hammered 28-3 the following year. He had the last laugh. Miami went on to win the national championship that season.
And when he was at Louisville, he brought his team to Gainesville in 1992, a 31-17 loss.
“After that game, do you remember my quote?” he asked. “I said, ‘They finally got this place right. This stadium is air-tight.’ They had built up the north end zone and the noise couldn't get out.”
I told Schnellenberger of the latest expansion on the west side.
“They made it more air-tight, huh?” he said.
Just for you, Howard. Just for you.
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GO Owls!!!!!!!
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floridaowl22 said
If FAU wants to win we need to take Tebows runinng game away from him, make him pass everyplay that way he can tire his arm and shoulder out. Tebow doesnt play safe like a Brady and throws short passes he goes all the way for 30 yard bombs to break defenses. This could benefit FAu in the sense that our Db's arent that slow; Polo can get his chance to shine again.
I too am hoping that Polo gets at least one pick off of Tebow.
The team should be well-aware of the fact that no matter what you're doing or who you're covering, you're also watching Tebow out of the corner of your eye.
From Marcus Nelson's FAU blog:
"My game plan - and I heard other people downstairs talking about it - is to get him out of the game," FAU senior safety Taheem Acevedo said when asked how to stop Tebow. "I don't care how it happens, we just have to get him out of the game. He carries that team."
Acevedo said he wants Tebow to remember him each time he is tackled.
"Whenever I see big guys like that, I'm not going to go low," Acevedo said. "My first thought is to go high and hit where it will hurt him more than anything."
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I would love to see the Owls keep it close. In the end, I think Tebow is a huge weapon. He should have some success running right up the gut. Yeah, I know we did ok against a running Grothe but this is a different story. My biggest fear is the move I have seen Tebow make many times this year where he fakes the run up the middle, draws the linebackers in for a second and then takes a couple steps back and throws a pass. That's difficult to stop. I also expect a Gators score on Special Teams.
Hopefully we stay healthy, play a perfect game, create some turnovers, and who knows what may happen.
Gators 51
Owls 17
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FAU - We got Bowls!
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