What is the Gators Ceiling in 2024?

10-2 is the ceiling that if the Gators shatter it... I will be elated for they rest of the year.

 

I think we land a healthy Badger and 2 or 3 more players before the portal window closes for the year. Badger is a PROVEN difference maker and a must get, IMHO. If we land him and he's good to go, then 8-4 is much more within reach. But we have to shore up the special teams unit.

We have some legitimate speedsters on our team and we need them on the Special teams unit even if they start on the the offense or the defense. We used to put our very best athletes on special teams, and if we follow that formula again... everything else will fall into place.

 

9 wins

 

The ceiling is twelve wins, and the floor is zero wins in the regular season. That's just math.
My prediction is 7-8 wins.

 

There is no ceiling, open air stadium, not a dome.

 

I think 9 wins is very possible but only if we go into Jacksonville with no more than one loss.

 

Yep, and obviously we all want to differentiate between what we WANT to see happen and what seems more realistic. We all WANT to see the Gators win every game. That said uga and texas are a big ask, and other teams on the slate are not gimmes either. Tough, no quit, disciplined football and the mental ability to bounce back if they take a loss or few along the way.

 

The realistic ceiling is 10 wins. But will we win 10 games? That's not the question. That is probably the ceiling in the best case scenario. I don't see any way we can win more with the team we have, and with the talent we face.

I have to say that in a perfect world we don't even have this discussion, but recent history forces us to be more pragmatic about how well our team CAN PERFORM... We have the talent to win 10 games, but that does NOT mean we will win 10 games.

 

Go ahead and fantasize.

The Oline is top 5. Baugh and Johnson gain 2000. Mizell or another emerges as dangerous as Wilson. Hawkins returns 4 punts for TDs. Boardingham scores 15 TDs. Mertz invited to NYC.

Boone has 15 sacks. Howard and James devour anything that gets past a fierce line. DBs get 15 interception. Both corners are locked down. Safeties clean up deep.

And undefeated season and top 3 recruiting class, portal agents filling the voicemail and NIL grows tenfold.

 

That's 5 or 6 wins. How do we get to 8 ?

 

Are you Canadian Doc?

 

What ya talkin' aboot?

 

“There is a world where they start off 5-0 and then maybe they beat Tennessee or Kentucky,” Staples said during Wednesday’s episode of Andy Staples On3. “Maybe they beat LSU, maybe Ole Miss has not had the season they had expected and November will look different. Maybe Florida State is a very different-looking team this year. So, I can see that.”

Maybe the cow jumps over the moon.

 

Take off hoser

 

Funny. When we lived in Michigan several years ago we had a cottage on Lake Erie in Colchester, Ontario. Loved the people who lived around us - we’d sit around the fire drinking and those guys were hilarious. One guy said “eh” like 4 times in one sentence. I picked up on it too. My wife would give me shit every time I said it, telling me I can’t say eh cause I’m not Canadian.

 

It’s a jelly