# Those new Florida Gator uniforms look ridiculous!

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**Created:** [October 29, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-new-florida-gator-uniforms-look-ridiculous/328499 "2005-10-29T20:14:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-new-florida-gator-uniforms-look-ridiculous/328499/41 "2005-11-04T16:34:57Z")

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> [@Neurotik](#):
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> Supposedly…
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> That’s my entire point. The conferences are so incestuous, the argument for teams from the SEC being ranked so high is, “Oh, they beat Tennessee, Georgia, and LSU.” Then you say, well, what makes you think those teams are so good? “Well, they beat Florida, Auburn and Alabama.”
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> So, you say that your conference games are A games, but how do you know? So long as people are padding with cupcakes outside the conference, you don’t know.

UF’s non conference games: Wyoming, La. Tech., FSU. Wyoming was in the Top 20 at the time, La. Tech, as I said, is our Hawaii, the last one doesn’t even need a comment.

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**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-new-florida-gator-uniforms-look-ridiculous/328499/42 "2005-11-04T23:46:51Z")

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> [@whole bean](#):
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> the problem comes when four of your conference games are also A games

Everybody plays in a tough conference (at least, everybody in a BCS conference). Your OOC schedule is the only place a team has any control, and it’s where they can make a statement.

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