FLORIDA VS. OKLAHOMA STATS COMPARISON BY TRADER RICK

KELLY MURPHY!

OFFENSE RANKINGS:

TOTAL OFFENSE............OU 3......UF17

RUSHING OFFENSE........OU NR..UF10

PASS OFFENSE.................OU 3......UF NR

SCORING OFFENSE........OU 1......UF 3

DEFENSE RANKINGS:

TOTAL DEFENSE:...........OU NR...UF7

RUSH DEFENSE............... OU 18....UF 7

PASS DEFENSE................. OU 38....UF 2

SCORING DEFENSE......... OU NR..UF 5

SCORE OFFENSE P/G.................OU 53.3...........UF 46.3

SCORE DEFENSE P/G.................OU 24.8...........UF 12.3

MARGIN OF VICTORY.................OU 28.5..........UF 34.0

So, Oklahoma great offense, defense not so much. Florida Great Offense, Great Defense.

DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS!!

(NR = Not Ranked, i.e. Not in top 50)

BRAKING NEWS:

Freshman Florida right-side/setter Kelly Murphy (Wilmington, Ill.) became the first player in school history to record back-to-back triple-doubles, as she finished with 13 kills, 17 assists and a career-high-tying 15 digs Saturday evening to lead the No. 14/12 Gators to a 3-0 (25-18, 25-23, 25-21) victory against Mountain West Conference member UNLV in the Cox Pavilion.

The Gators (25-3), who have now won 25 or more matches in each of their last 18 seasons, put together one of their most balanced offensive performances of the season as four players tallied seven or more kills and each of the 13 players who dressed for the match saw action in at least one set.

I think this is Womens' Volley Ball...I like a sport that has "kills". I hope Misty May is recovering from her Dancing Injury...

VURTUAL THREE WAY TIE FOR #2 IN COACHES POLL; UF SLIDES TO #4

THIS POLL IS BULLZOOK. WHAT ARE THE COACHES SMOKING?There is an error here. Oregon should be listed as #18 last week...

Nov. 30, 2008
Rank	Team (first-place votes)	Record	Points	Last week
1.	Alabama (58)	12-0	1,521	1
2.	Oklahoma (2)	11-1	1,397	2
3.	Texas	11-1	1,396	4
4.	Florida (1)	11-1	1,385	3
5.	Southern California	10-1	1,298	5
6.	Penn State	11-1	1,176	6
7.	Utah	12-0	1,153	7
8.	Texas Tech	11-1	1,116	8
9.	Boise State	12-0	1,044	9
10.	Ohio State	10-2	999	10
11.	TCU	10-2	836	14
12.	Cincinnati	10-2	770	16
13.	Ball State	12-0	765	15
14.	Oregon	9-3	658	15
15.	Oklahoma State	9-3	613	12
16.	Georgia Tech	9-3	590	23
17.	Missouri	9-3	470	11
18.	Brigham Young	10-2	461	19
19.	Georgia	9-3	440	13
20.	Boston College	9-3	435	22
21.	Michigan State	9-3	414	21
22.	Northwestern	9-3	333	20
23.	Pittsburgh	8-3	154	NR
24.	Oregon State	8-4	127	17
25.	Mississippi	8-4	126	NR
Dropped out
No. 24 Florida State (8-4, lost to then-No. 3 Florida), No. 25 West Virginia (7-4, lost to then-unranked Pittsburgh 19-15).
Others receiving votes
Virginia Tech (8-4) 41; Iowa (8-4) 31; Tulsa (10-2) 21; Florida State (8-4) 15; Nebraska (8-4) 11; Kansas (7-5) 10; Connecticut (7-4) 5; North Carolina (8-4) 5; Rice (9-3) 5; California (7-4) 4.
The USA TODAY Board of Coaches is made up of 61 head coaches at Division I-A institutions. All are members of the American Football Coaches Association. This season's board: Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech; Mike Bellotti, Oregon; Bret Bielema, Wisconsin; Bobby Bowden, Florida State; Tommy Bowden, Clemson; Art Briles, Baylor; Mack Brown, Texas; Neil Callaway, Alabama-Birmingham; Gene Chizik, Iowa State; Mario Cristobal, Florida International; Sylvester Croom, Mississippi State; Mark Dantonio, Michigan State; Butch Davis, North Carolina; Todd Dodge, North Texas; Randy Edsall, Connecticut; Phillip Fulmer, Tennessee; Jeff Genyk, Eastern Michigan; Turner Gill, Buffalo; Joe Glenn, Wyoming; Todd Graham, Tulsa; Jim Grobe, Wake Forest; Dan Hawkins, Colorado; Pat Hill, Fresno State; Butch Jones, Central Michigan; Steve Kragthorpe, Louisville; Mike Leach, Texas Tech; Jim Leavitt, South Florida; Rocky Long, New Mexico; Bill Lynch, Indiana; Doug Martin, Kent State; Urban Meyer, Florida; Les Miles, LSU; Shane Montgomery, Miami (Ohio); Hal Mumme, New Mexico State; Rick Neuheisel, UCLA; Tom O'Brien, North Carolina State; George O'Leary, Central Florida; Gary Patterson, TCU; Bo Pelini, Nebraska; Chris Petersen, Boise State; Gary Pinkel, Missouri; Mike Price, Texas-El Paso; Mark Richt, Georgia; Mike Riley, Oregon State; Rich Rodriguez, Michigan; Greg Schiano, Rutgers; Howard Schnellenberger, Florida Atlantic; Mark Snyder, Marshall; Frank Solich, Ohio; Steve Spurrier, South Carolina; Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee; Jeff Tedford, California; Joe Tiller, Purdue; Bob Toledo, Tulane; Dick Tomey, San Jose State; Jim Tressel, Ohio State; Tommy Tuberville, Auburn; Charlie Weis, Notre Dame; Kyle Whittingham, Utah; Tyrone Willingham, Washington; Ron Zook, Illinois. The AFCA prohibits coaches from voting for schools on major NCAA probation. November 30, 2008 AP Top 25 RANK TEAM RECORD PTS LAST 1 Alabama (62) 12-0 1620 1 2 Florida (3) 11-1 1516 2 3 Texas 11-1 1488 4 4 Oklahoma 11-1 1480 3 5 Southern Cal 10-1 1355 5 6 Penn St. 11-1 1257 6 7 Utah 12-0 1216 8 8 Texas Tech 11-1 1197 7 9 Boise St. 12-0 1103 9 10 Ohio St. 10-2 1069 10 11 TCU 10-2 885 14 12 Ball St. 12-0 834 15 13 Cincinnati 10-2 824 16 14 Oklahoma St. 9-3 798 11 15 Georgia Tech 9-3 708 18 16 Oregon 9-3 630 19 17 Georgia 9-3 495 13 18 Boston College 9-3 482 20 19 Missouri 9-3 479 12 20 BYU 10-2 385 20 21 Michigan St. 9-3 312 22 22 Mississippi 8-4 280 25 23 Pittsburgh 8-3 241 NR 24 Northwestern 9-3 190 24 25 Oregon St. 8-4 122 17 Others receiving votes: Iowa 66, Virginia Tech 47, Tulsa 13, Florida St. 12, California 7, West Virginia 4, Connecticut 3, Nebraska 3, Rice 3, North Carolina 1. 2008 Schedule Current Standings: Overall(11-1) SEC(7-1) DATE OPPONENT SITE RESULT Sat Aug 30 Hawaii Boxscore Gainesville, FL W(56-10) Sat Sep 6 Miami (Fla.) Boxscore Gainesville, FL W(26-3) Sat Sep 20 at Tennessee Boxscore Knoxville, TN W(30-6) Sat Sep 27 Ole Miss Boxscore Gainesville, FL L(30-31) Sat Oct 4 at Arkansas Boxscore Fayetteville, AR W(38-7) Sat Oct 11 LSU Boxscore Gainesville, FL W(51-21) Sat Oct 25 Kentucky (HC) Boxscore Gainesville, FL W(63-5) Sat Nov 1 Georgia Boxscore Jacksonville, FL W(49-10) Sat Nov 8 at Vanderbilt Boxscore Nashville, TN W(42-14) Sat Nov 15 South Carolina Boxscore Gainesville, FL W(56-6) Sat Nov 22 The Citadel Boxscore Gainesville, FL W(70-19) Sat Nov 29 at Florida State Boxscore Tallahassee, FL W(45-15) Sat Dec 6 Alabama (SEC Championship Game) Atlanta, GA -- Bowl Championship Series standings this poll is whacked too. You let a team score 41 points on you and you move UP in all the polls? A fatal flaw somewhere.... Nov. 30, 2008 • Extended computer rankings Rank Team Harris Poll USA TODAY Computer Rank BCS average Last week 1 Alabama 1 .9965 1 .9974 3 .920 .9713 1 2 Oklahoma 4 .9094 2 .9161 1 .980 .9351 3 3 Texas 3 .9115 3 .9154 2 .940 .9223 2 4 Florida 2 .9271 4 .9082 6 .820 .8851 5 Southern California 5 .8418 5 .8511 8 .730 .8076

November 30, 2008
Harris Top 25

RANK TEAM RECORD PTS LAST
1 Alabama (107) 12-0...... 2815
2 Florida (4) 11-1...... 2619
3 Texas (1) 11-1............... 2575
4 Oklahoma 11-1.............. 2569
5 Southern Cal 10-1......... 2378

SOAK IN DOAK: GATORS EVISCERATE SEMINOLES IN CRAPAHASSEE

SPIKES!

CELEBRATE

MOOOOODY!!!!!

CALM DOWN, COACH!

SUPERMAN

It is 7:18 a.m. and 35 degrees out and dark. Patrick and Junior are asleep somewhere.

Gators destroy FSU at Zook Field. Fell asleep during our BCS opponent Oklahoma's game. Awoke to see the final was 61 to 41, so some such nonsense. 61? That's good. 41? Are you kidding me???? ONE HUNDRED TWO POINTS? IS THERE A DEFENSE IN THE HOUSE?

TEAM STATISTICS

First downs - UF 22, FSU 17

Rushes-yards - UF 46-317, FSU 33-102

Passing - UF 185, FSU 140

Total Yards UF 502, FSU 242

Return Yards - UF 50, FSU 0

Time of Possession - UF 33:56, FSU 26:04

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING - Florida, Rainey 8-97, Demps 9-89, Tebow 16-80, Moody 5-40, Harvin 6-13, Brantley 1-4, Team 1-(minus 6). Florida St., A.Smith 12-57, Thomas 8-37, Fortson 1-22, Richardson 3-14, Ponder 4-14, Reed 1-(minus 3), Gano 1-(minus 8), Weatherford 3-(minus 31).

PASSING - Florida, Tebow 12-21-0-185, Murphy 0-1-0-0. Florida St., Weatherford 4-15-0-61, Ponder 5-14-2-60, Richardson 1-2-1-19, Team 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING - Florida, Hernandez 4-61, Murphy 2-49, Nelson 2-36, James 1-13, Demps 1-11, C.Moore 1-10, Cooper 1-5. Florida St., G.Carr 2-24, Owens 2-24, Reed 2-18, Parker 2-13, Fortson 1-42, A.Smith 1-19.

Now to win the SEC Championship in Atlanta, and on to Miami!!!

Top 25 roundup
	Team	Record	Result
1.	Alabama	12-0	Defeated Auburn 36-0
2.	Oklahoma	12-1	Defeated No. 12 Oklahoma State 61-41
3.	Florida	11-1	Defeated No. 24 Florida State 45-15
4.	Texas	11-1	Defeated Texas A&M 49-9 (Thursday)
5.	Southern California	10-1	Defeated Notre Dame 38-3
6.	Penn State	11-1	Regular season complete
7.	Utah	12-0	Regular season complete
8.	Texas Tech	11-1	Defeated Baylor 35-28
9.	Boise State	12-0	Defeated Fresno State 61-10 (Friday)
10.	Ohio State	10-2	Regular season complete
11.	Missouri	9-3	Lost to Kansas 40-37
12.	Oklahoma State	9-3	Lost to No. 2 Oklahoma 61-41
13.	Georgia	9-3	Lost to No. 23 Georgia Tech 45-42
14.	TCU	10-2	Regular season complete
15.	Ball State	11-0	Defeated Western Michigan 45-22 (Tuesday)
16.	Cincinnati	10-2	Defeated Syracuse 30-10
17.	Oregon State	8-4	Lost to No. 18 Oregon 65-38
18.	Oregon	9-3	Defeated No. 17 Oregon State 65-38
19.	Brigham Young	10-2	Regular season complete
20.	Northwestern	9-3	Regular season complete
21.	Michigan State	9-3	Regular season complete
22.	Boston College	9-3	Defeated Maryland 28-21
23.	Georgia Tech	9-3	Defeated No. 13 Georgia 45-42
24.	Florida State	8-4	Lost to No. 3 Florida 45-15
25.	West Virginia	7-4	Lost to Pittsburgh 19-15 (Friday)

Three stupid SEC teams lost this weekend to non conference crappy opponents. Shame on USCe, Georgia, and Vandy!

GO GATORS! ROLL OVER TIDE!!

GO GATORS -- BEAT 'NOLES!

OOPS!

GOOD COCONUTS

It is 6:12 a.m. and dark out. The temperature is 25.3 degrees,Wind out of the west at 0 knots, Humidity is 95 %, Dew point is 24 degrees. Junior and Patrick are asleep in his room and Beeve is snoring on a couch downstairs.

Went to Snyder's Auction, last night, bought 2 American Flags, 6 pairs socks and a Coors Light Clock for Junior. Saved money. Drank a Guiness at the Pub before hand. Had to drive Wrangler, Truck finally crapped out. Oh, well, So it goes.

More Later, maybe

GO GATORS

-TR-

NEWSFLASH SURVIVOR'S CORRINE IS A GATOR!!!

There are a lot of things kept from us, or not just revealed about Survivor contestants.

One thing we do know is that on a show known for extremely hot swim suit models, Corrine Kaplan is head and shoulders above ANY of them in terms of sexiness, from day one until now.

Doubt she'll win tho, as she is a pretty awful person in real life.

But:

SHE GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN THREE YEARS ON A FULL ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP!!! THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IS THE BASIS FOR THE GATOR NATION. THE GATOR NATION IS EVERYWHERE!!

From Andy, our Florida Gators Corresp0ndent, commenting on Our Analysis of Gators vs. Tide in the SEC:

I love it! This is great stuff, rick, and it puts into proper perspective what the two teams stack up like in terms of comparing apples/apples. The only thing I would point out is that Florida’s first team offense/defense likely spent considerably less time on the field than Alabama as a result of the Gators’ many decisive blowouts that prompted Meyer to invoke the “mercy rule” and yank the starters. Alabama will be great to play, but I REALLY can’t wait until tomorrow. I keep going back to the 49 points needed to break Spurrier’s total points in a season record. I’d love to see 50+ and I think the starters are in the game until it gets to that point no matter what. Hope it materializes! Go Gators! Andy

LORD OBAMA'S GRANDMOTHER WITNESSED HIS BIRTH IN KENYA

It is 6:55 and 30 degrees. Patrick and Junior are in his room asleep.

GATORS: Well, we watched Texas do what it had to do during Rivalry week, and in good fashion. Now will Florida, Oklahoma, and Alabama do what they need to do against their In-state rivalries?

USA Today's current bowl picks:

2008-09 bowl schedule
Date/time (all ET)	Bowl	Site	Conferences	Prediction
Sat., Dec. 20 11 a.m.	Congressional	Washington	Navy/at-large vs. ACC	Navy vs. Clemson
Sat., Dec. 20 2:30 p.m.	New Mexico	Albuquerque	Mountain West vs. WAC	Air Force vs. Fresno State
Sat., Dec. 20 4:30 p.m.	St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Fla.	Big East vs. Conference USA	South Florida vs. Tulsa
Sat., Dec. 20 8 p.m.	Las Vegas	Las Vegas	Mountain West vs. Pac-10	TCU vs. Oregon
Sun., Dec. 21 8 p.m.	New Orleans	New Orleans	Sun Belt vs. Conference USA	Troy vs. Southern Miss
Tue., Dec. 23 8 p.m.	Poinsettia	San Diego	Mountain West vs. Pac-10	Colorado State vs. San Jose State*
Wed., Dec. 24 8 p.m.	Hawaii	Honolulu	Pac-10 vs. WAC/Hawaii	Central Michigan* vs. Hawaii
Fri., Dec. 26 7:30 p.m.	Motor City	Detroit	MAC vs. Big Ten	Ball State vs. Minnesota
Sat., Dec. 27 1 p.m.	Meineke Car Care	Charlotte	ACC vs. Big East	Boston College vs. West Virginia
Sat., Dec. 27 4:30 p.m.	Champs Sports	Orlando	ACC vs. Big Ten	Miami (Fla.) vs. Northwestern
Sat., Dec. 27 8 p.m.	Emerald	San Francisco	Pac-10 vs. ACC	Arizona vs. North Carolina
Sun., Dec. 28 8 p.m.	Independence	Shreveport, La.	SEC vs. Big 12	Louisiana-Lafayette* vs. Louisiana Tech*
Mon., Dec. 29 3 p.m.	Papajohns.com	Birmingham, Ala.	SEC vs. Big East	Arkansas State* vs. Pittsburgh
Mon., Dec. 29 8 p.m.	Alamo	San Antonio	Big 12 vs. Big Ten	Missouri vs. Iowa
Tue., Dec. 30 4:30 p.m.	Humanitarian	Boise	WAC vs. ACC	Boise State vs. Wake Forest
Tue., Dec. 30 8 p.m.	Holiday	San Diego	Pac-10 vs. Big 12	Oregon State vs. Oklahoma State
Tue., Dec. 30 8 p.m.	Texas	Houston	Big 12 vs. Conference USA	Rutgers* vs. Rice
Wed., Dec. 31 12:30 p.m.	Armed Forces	Fort Worth	Mountain West vs. C-USA	Brigham Young vs. Memphis
Wed., Dec. 31 2 p.m.	Sun	El Paso	Pac-10 vs. Big 12/Big East	California vs. Notre Dame
Wed., Dec. 31 3:30 p.m.	Music City	Nashville	SEC vs. ACC	Maryland vs. Kentucky
Wed., Dec. 31 5:30 p.m.	Insight	Tempe, Ariz.	Big 12 vs. Big Ten	Kansas vs. Wisconsin
Wed., Dec. 31 7:30 p.m.	Chick-Fil-A	Atlanta	SEC vs. ACC	Georgia Tech vs. LSU
Thu., Jan. 1 11 a.m.	Outback	Tampa	Big Ten vs. SEC	Michigan State vs. South Carolina
Thu., Jan. 1 1 p.m.	Capital One	Orlando	Big Ten vs. SEC	Ohio State vs. Georgia
Thu., Jan. 1 1 p.m.	Gator	Jacksonville	ACC vs. Big 12/Big East	Florida State vs. Nebraska
Thu., Jan. 1 5 p.m.	Rose	Pasadena, Calif.	BCS vs. BCS	Southern California vs. Penn State
Thu., Jan. 1 8 p.m.	Orange	Miami	BCS vs. BCS	Cincinnati vs. Virginia Tech
Fri., Jan. 2 2 p.m.	Cotton	Dallas	SEC vs. Big 12	Texas Tech vs. Mississippi
Fri., Jan. 2 5 p.m.	Liberty	Memphis	Conference USA vs. SEC	Houston vs. Vanderbilt
Fri., Jan. 2 8:30 p.m.	Sugar	New Orleans	BCS vs. BCS	Alabama vs. Ohio State
Sat., Jan. 3 noon	International	Toronto	Big East vs. MAC	Connecticut vs. Buffalo
Mon., Jan. 5 8 p.m.	Fiesta	Glendale, Ariz.	BCS vs. BCS	Texas vs. Utah
Tue., Jan. 6 8 p.m.	GMAC	Mobile, Ala.	Conference USA vs. MAC or WAC	East Carolina vs. Western Michigan
Thu., Jan. 8 8 p.m.	BCS title game	Miami	BCS No. 1 vs. BCS No. 2	Oklahoma vs. Florida

THE GREAT PRETENDER: From the Extremist---

"The U.S. Constitution requires that the president be a native born citizen. President elect Obama is almost certainly not a native born U.S. citizen. I base this conclusion on the fact that he has chosen to leave the matter in doubt despite how easily he could prove it if it were true.

"His opponent, Senator McCain, had a similar problem, having been born in the Panama Canal zone. But when McCain was confronted by opponents on the issue, he immediately dug up all the records and presented them to whomever was interested. As a result, Congress agreed that as the child of military parents stationed abroad in an American controlled zone, they’d consider him a native born citizen. The passed some kind of resolution saying so..."

GO GATORS BEAT NOLES