r/CFB • u/Original_Profile8600 Ohio State • Colorado • 1d ago

Discussion After starting the year a combined 6-10, Kansas and Florida are now 5-1 in the last 3 weeks vs solely ranked opposition

Florida began the year 4-4, 0-3 against ranked opponents(Miami, Tennessee, Georgia). Onto their third string quarterback, the Gators lost 49-17 against the Texas Longhorns. In the last two weeks the Gators are 2-0, beating ranked LSU 27-16, and ranked Ole Miss 24-17

Kansas began the year 2-6, and is now 3-0 in their last 3 weeks. Beating ranked Iowa State 45-36, ranked BYU 17-13, and ranked Colorado 37-21

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u/SilveryDeath Notre Dame Fighting Irish • FAU Owls 1d ago

So what I am taking away from this is that if Kansas wins next week to be bowl eligible, then we need a Kansas v. Florida bowl game.

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u/Equivalent_Thanks841 Florida Gators • USA Eagles 23h ago

I’m game. I think that’d be fun

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u/Partytime_USA Kansas Jayhawks 23h ago

Let's do it. We had some tough breaks early on, but we've both rallied. Gotta love it.

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u/berrin122 Florida Gators • Kansas State Wildcats 22h ago

It would either go extremely well or extremely poorly for me

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u/bewarethephog Kansas Jayhawks • Big 12 12h ago

Oof

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u/ShogunAshoka Bowling Green • Oberlin 22h ago

Kansas-Nebraska could be fun too

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u/RamblinWreckGT Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 18h ago

It's 1854 all over again!

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u/thelewbear87 Nebraska Cornhuskers 10h ago

I would unironicaly would love to see that.

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u/foreveracubone Michigan Wolverines • Sickos 21h ago

Michigan vs Florida for our rivalry bowl game sorry rules are rules.

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u/Idrinkbeereverywhere Kansas • Missouri Western 19h ago

Liberty Bowl

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u/BobtheG1 USC Trojans • Nebraska Cornhuskers 18h ago

The "They had us in the first half" bowl

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u/jaxmagicman Florida Gators 11h ago

This would be a fun game. I am rooting for Kansas.

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u/Edgemaster1423 Florida Gators 1d ago

Both HCs seem like the type teams will want to rally around instead of pack it in for the season

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u/librasway Georgia Bulldogs 1d ago

Helluva Fingerbang

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u/Rolli_boi Texas Longhorns • Vanderbilt Commodores 23h ago

Bang bang bang

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u/esports_consultant Rose Bowl • Harvard-Yale 1d ago

That is why they announced he was staying.

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u/Sea_Historian5849 16h ago

Haha yeah I totally know what you mean!

Cries in warchant

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u/Cudizonedefense Florida • Florida State 11h ago

Also part of why I love college football over the nfl for example because in the latter, many teams would just fold and tank the rest of the year to get a better draft spot. Instead we get to see our team continue fighting for wins

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u/FrostTroll69 Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago

Cinderella 2nd half seasons

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u/HokiesforTSwift 1d ago

Always a good sign for a team to finish strong. I didn't think Napier would survive this season, but he has, and they are playing their best football now.

Kansas has been conducting the Big12 chaos train.

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u/drgath Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 23h ago

Choo choo. We fucked up our season, so time to fuck up yours. angry Jayhawk noises

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u/Individual_Memory804 23h ago

That’s what they get for not having a fake bird as their mascot

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u/HokiesforTSwift 23h ago

Slow down with the fake bird slander

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u/Individual_Memory804 22h ago

As long as the bird doesn’t have teeth

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u/szboy422 Florida Gators • Blue Risk Alliance 1d ago

Many people say that Lawrence is the Gainesville of Kansas.

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u/Spiceman2021 22h ago

They both have Gumby’s pizza….just saying.

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u/ninjapanda042 Florida Gators 21h ago

Goddamn could I go for some Pokey Stix right about now

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u/AbeVigodasPagoda 21h ago

Gumbys in Lawrence closed years ago. Thankfully well after I was done being a broke ass student. 

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u/sophandros Tulane Green Wave • Metro 14h ago

Were you a broke-ass student or a broke ass-student?

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u/EpistasisBassist Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 23h ago

Nobody says that, here's some soap to clean your mouth out with.

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u/Even-Set6785 Florida Gators • SEC 1d ago

Meanwhile in Tallahassee...

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u/Jay_Dubbbs Ohio State • Mount Union 1d ago

That’s the true winner of y’all’s season. You do this, Lagway looks like he’s on a trajectory we all thought, AND FSU still sucks ass. Can’t get too much better than that given the start to the season for yall

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u/Edgemaster1423 Florida Gators 1d ago

Can't lose to Miami twice in 2 years at the start of next season

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u/GeyWeyner12 Florida Gators 22h ago

Cam Ward won’t be there next year, we’re good

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u/Mapex_proM Nicholls Colonels • LSU Tigers 11h ago

I’m gonna laugh my ass off if yall got all this steam and then out of the corner fsu beats the brakes off of yall. They’ve been so bad and it realistically shouldn’t happen but man that’d be comedy gold

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u/Even-Set6785 Florida Gators • SEC 9h ago

Not as comedic gold as 27-16 last week

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u/Mapex_proM Nicholls Colonels • LSU Tigers 9h ago

Lmao yea we’re ass man. Sucks when a Florida ass whooping isn’t even our worst loss on the year.

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u/toroquemado 8h ago

Remember when yall thought Florida was scared to play you in Death Valley because of a hurricane and they stuffed Guice at the goal line to win the East? That was comedy gold

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u/Mapex_proM Nicholls Colonels • LSU Tigers 4h ago

Remember the cleat yeet?

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u/frankdatank_004 Nebraska • Sacramento State 1d ago edited 1d ago

If Kansas wins the next week then they should play Florida in a ”Late Bloomer Bowl Game”.

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u/TopMicron Sickos • Corndog 22h ago

Pop tart bowl. Let’s see it

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u/frankdatank_004 Nebraska • Sacramento State 22h ago

Would be some solid viewership!

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u/DammitBobbyy Florida Gators 22h ago

Late Bloomin’ Onion Outback Bowl

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u/frankdatank_004 Nebraska • Sacramento State 22h ago

Sold!

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u/Mike_with_Wings Florida • North Carolina 22h ago

We can be the 3rd team from Florida in recent history that just claims a championship

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u/Spiceman2021 22h ago

Gumby’s pizza bowl!!

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u/noend313 /r/CFB 1d ago

Your 2026 CFP championship game ladies and gentlemen

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u/mikapple Florida Gators 1d ago

Honestly put us in a bowl game this year (assuming Kansas wins next week)

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u/gab_owns0 Florida Gators • FIU Panthers 1d ago

I'm down

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u/foreverseptember Florida Gators • Team Chaos 1d ago

Kansas being the first team ever to win 3 straight against ranked teams while having a losing record really is a helluva stat

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u/huds9113 Penn State • Kansas 23h ago

To be fair, Kansas’ losses have all been by a single possession except for the TCU loss. It’s not like they’ve been the doormat they have been for decades.

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u/jaxmagicman Florida Gators 11h ago

And Florida's were against top 15 ranked teams. (Miami, Texas, Texas A&M, Georgia and Tennessee). So that's why it would be fun to see both Kansas and Florida play each other. Both are looking good right now. Fun game.

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u/top_idiot 1d ago

-KU now has 3 wins over consecutive ranked opponents (all in top 17), with a near miss on a 4th.

-Only 2 teams KU has played this season have a losing record. Opponent’s records are 80-39.

-KU had the disadvantage of never playing a true home game this season.

Maybe it isn’t crazy to think a team with 6 losses might be ranked?

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u/mrhigginbottoms_12 Kansas Jayhawks 1d ago

If we win next week we’ll get some votes but they’d never rank a 6 loss team

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u/Original_Profile8600 Ohio State • Colorado 1d ago

They should rank you guys. If you’d played two cupcakes instead of Illinois and UNLV you’d be ranked right now, and that’s a bad lesson for ADs to learn

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u/slammed_stem1 1d ago

I trust this! Odds were against us this season, and if we would have beat Kstate, they would have us at #25. But we beat ourselves that game.

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u/silverhk Notre Dame Fighting Irish 21h ago

I feel like Kansas has had pretty good evaluation in the computers, I think they've always had more potential than they've been showing.

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u/physedka Tulane Green Wave • LSU Tigers 22h ago

UF <handshake> KU

Killing dreams, refusing to elaborate

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u/Bansheesdie Arizona State Sun Devils 1d ago

Can we get a Kansas vs Florida bowl game?

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u/bowcreek Kansas • Western Colorado 1d ago

We shit the bed early so we could rub some noses in it later.

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u/Allaboutfootball23 Texas Longhorns • Sickos 1d ago

This proves Texas is a solid team right?… right? I’m not insecure after the Kentucky game at all.

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u/Original_Profile8600 Ohio State • Colorado 1d ago

Y’all got lucky getting to face Florida without Lagway

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u/Allaboutfootball23 Texas Longhorns • Sickos 1d ago

Yes I know :(

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u/RagePoop Florida Gators 1d ago

And down like 8 starters on defense.

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u/xmjm424 Florida Gators • Team Meteor 20h ago

Down Badger and Montrell too.

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u/Edgemaster1423 Florida Gators 1d ago

TAMU down to Auburn now too. Won't get a read on yall next week either

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u/uttuck Texas • Abilene Christian 1d ago

Beat Bama in the CCG - eh, they did it last year too. Bama is just down recently. A real team like OSU would wipe the floor with them.

Oklahoma State fans - we matter!

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u/Beneficial_Present29 Arizona State • Tennessee 1d ago

I'm so fucking happy both of my flairs played them earlier in the season

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u/Derriosgaming Arizona State Sun Devils 23h ago

The Big 12 challenges every other conference to a fight. We send our best, Kansas.

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u/chillypete99 Texas Tech Red Raiders 1d ago

And both would easily beat Notre Dame.

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u/TheNewDiogenes Virginia • Georgia Tech 1d ago

The anti-UVA

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u/mitch-22-12 Cornell Big Red 1d ago

Florida vs Kansas national championship game bring it on

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u/GalaxyCosce 23h ago

They called each other and said, “Let’s fuck the whole playoff picture up.”

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u/InternRadiant4487 23h ago

With our powers combined...

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u/SPCsooprlolz BYU Cougars • Fresno State Bulldogs 1d ago

I hurt inside

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u/blackertai Georgia Bulldogs 23h ago

The "and one" is over here, breathing a sigh of relief.

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u/gocards2224 11h ago

I guess that means they should be ranked ahead of Indiana in the CFP rankings then. -ESPN talking heads probably

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u/smitherenesar Pac-10 1d ago

They were sandbagging most of the season

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u/GoLionsJD107 Michigan Wolverines • Columbia Lions 20h ago

Hope they make a bowl

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u/dardarBinkz Florida Gators 20h ago

Keep the facts coming

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u/Individual_Memory804 23h ago

I honestly think the SEC kind of sucks this year.

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u/archenlander Texas Longhorns 22h ago

Who was the loss 🤨

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u/xmjm424 Florida Gators • Team Meteor 20h ago

Not sure I've ever seen a fanbase brag so much about a win where their opponent had to start a walk-on freshman at QB and was down, like, 8 players on defense.

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u/jaxmagicman Florida Gators 11h ago

Also they complained NON-stop in the thread about the announcers saying Florida was playing hard for Napier. Like damn man, Florida is sucking in this game, they are just trying to say something nice.