THE NEWSCASTER-Pigskin Predictors
PAGE 8 - September 17, 2008
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Last Week’s Winners
No. 9 Alabama at Arkansas
Week #2
Notre Dame at Michigan State
CHI @ CAR
Miami(FL) at Texas A&M
ATL @ TB
No. 18 Wake Forest at No. 24 FSU
MIA @ ARI
No. 6 LSU at No. 10 Auburn
BUF @ JAC
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NE @ NYJ
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IND @ MIN
No.4 Florida____ at Tenn.____
2nd week in a row with picks of 8-2. USC was an
No. 17 Penn State at Syracuse
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Michigan at Notre Dame
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For the week:8-2
For the week: 7-3
For the week: 7-3
For the week: 7-3
For the week: 6-4
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ery year and then bounce around on
grass and put Miami back on the
Florida, more than any other school
rotating years at Auburn, Alabama,
schedule. Natural turf was in-
in our great state, has a complete
Arkansas and Ole Miss then finish
stalled immediately, but when the
sports program that is nationally
Are the Gators avoiding Miami?
with FSU. Florida’s schedule is
SEC mandated an eight game con-
ranked every year. Florida has
ranked as one of, if not the tough-
ference schedule the following
ranked in the top ten in NCAA All-
from their schedule because they
By Doug Johnston
est in the country every year by the
year Spurrier dropped the second
Sports rankings for 25 consecutive
were “chicken” to play the Hurri-
sports gurus.
50
If there is one argument that
demand. Playing eight conference
years. The only other university
canes. Hogwash! If the powers-
Florida dropped Miami after
“Gator Haters” continually voice
games and the annual game with
that can make that claim is UCLA.
that-be at Florida were chicken
the 1987 game. When Steve
that I would love to put to rest it is
FSU leaves the Gators with only 3
Excellence on the playing fields
they would not be playing in the
Spurrier was hired as the football
the ridiculous contention that the
games to schedule non conference
requires money. The budget for the
Southeastern Conference. You
coach in 1990, he stipulated two
University of Florida is afraid to
opponents. They choose to play
University of Florida Athletic De-
have to be pretty daring to line up
things to be done if he were to
play Miami every year in football.
teams that do not expect the Gators
partment
last
year
was
against the likes of Tennessee,
come to Florida: Replace the arti-
I have heard the accusation for
to play the following year at their
$88,060,710.00. The athletic de-
Georgia, LSU, Kentucky,
ficial turf on Florida Field with
years that Florida dropped Miami
stadium. Why? It’s all about money.
Vanderbilt and South Carolina ev-
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