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I’ve been reading posts on this site for years, but finally decided to chime in. Who predicts the scores most accurately on a weekly basis? With the Green and Gold glasses off, I’m curious to know what they think. 

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1 minute ago, StPeteBull91 said:

I’ve been reading posts on this site for years, but finally decided to chime in. Who’s predicts the scores most accurately on a weekly basis? With the Green and Gold glasses off, I’m curious to know what they think. 

I don't know if Brad keeps a list of the prediction contest winners

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1 hour ago, GaUSFBull said:

Scare tactics!  Interesting motivational direction.

At this point I am desperate. Hell, I am for taking a voodoo doll of George O’Leary and Skip Holtz and burning them in a fire. 

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28 minutes ago, Gatorbull325 said:

I feel Tice will have 200yds,/2 td, Flowers 126yds 2 touchdowns, DJ - 84yds, 1 td and we total over 500 rushing yards. 

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Thanks to Sports-Reference.com I was able to easily see the breakdown of what our Offensive stats have been on a game to game basis.

Our highest rushing game so far this season was against ECU (390). I don't see us rushing for another 110 yds against a UCF team that is going to want to force us to beat them with Q's arm.

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1 minute ago, bullsmeanbusiness said:

Thanks to Sports-Reference.com I was able to easily see the breakdown of what our Offensive stats have been on a game to game basis.

Our highest rushing game so far this season was against ECU (390). I don't see us rushing for another 110 yds against a UCF team that is going to want to force us to beat them with Q's arm.

Passing Rushing Total Offense First Downs Penalties Turnovers
Rk Date   Opponent Result Cmp Att Pct Yds TD Att Yds Avg TD Plays Yds Avg Pass Rush Pen Tot No. Yds Fum Int Tot
  10 Games       155 288 53.8 2173 17 547 2769 5.1 27 835 4942 5.9 92 145 18 255 91 830 5 5 10
1 2017-08-26 @ San Jose State W (42-22) 13 26 50.0 233 2 74 315 4.3 4 100 548 5.5 10 17 2 29 10 57 0 0 0
2 2017-09-02   Stony Brook W (31-17) 19 32 59.4 186 2 49 153 3.1 2 81 339 4.2 6 13 2 21 5 40 0 1 1
3 2017-09-15   Illinois W (47-23) 17 32 53.1 304 4 66 376 5.7 2 98 680 6.9 14 21 3 38 16 140 0 1 1
4 2017-09-21   Temple W (43-7) 8 20 40.0 96 0 63 312 5.0 4 83 408 4.9 4 15 3 22 9 70 2 0 2
5 2017-09-30 @ East Carolina W (61-31) 13 21 61.9 185 2 50 390 7.8 5 71 575 8.1 8 15 2 25 8 102 1 0 1
6 2017-10-14   Cincinnati W (33-3) 17 30 56.7 190 0 53 212 4.0 2 83 402 4.8 9 14 2 25 14 137 0 0 0
7 2017-10-21 @ Tulane W (34-28) 10 24 41.7 127 2 52 378 7.3 3 76 505 6.6 6 18 1 25 7 89 0 1 1
8 2017-10-28   Houston L (24-28) 23 38 60.5 325 0 55 137 2.5 3 93 462 5.0 14 6 1 21 5 35 0 0 0
9 2017-11-04 @ Connecticut W (37-20) 24 37 64.9 385 3 40 217 5.4 1 77 602 7.8 15 12 1 28 11 100 1 1 2
10 2017-11-16   Tulsa W (27-20) 11 28 39.3 142 2 45 279 6.2 1 73 421 5.8 6 14 1 21 6 60 1 1 2

My prediction still stands, but shall remove 50 yds from Tice, 40yds from Flowers and 10 yds from DJ :)

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Milton is the biggest QB threat that we have faced all season, the key for us is to limit what Milton can do with his arm. If we can keep him under pressure and force him to make some questionable passes (which he has all season) I like our chances. If UCF beats us it is going to be by throwing the ball, which we have done a decent job at all season (highest passing yds allowed was against ECU for 306).

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4 minutes ago, Gatorbull325 said:

My prediction still stands, but shall remove 50 yds from Tice, 40yds from Flowers and 10 yds from DJ :)

I can live with that haha

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5 hours ago, Flowers4Heisman said:

Yes! You are reading this correctly. All the data that I've been gathering about this game says USF WINS.

I know we've played sluggish football all year offensively, and we've gambled too much on defense at times and paid the price at least once -to Houston.

However, everything is lining up perfectly for a nice, solid win over the rusted tin men.

(1) Florida Athletes vs. Florida Athletes: USF wins this matchup because we'll have more rest and we have more seniors.

(2) Flowers and the senior leadership on this team, they've seen it all, including losing their head coach and adjusting to new coaches.

(3) Flowers, his talent, and his elusiveness. ucf hasn't seen a QB like Flowers since last year when they got beat. Nobody has ever stopped Flowers! ---NOBODY!

(4) Our guys have already gotten all the bad voodoo plays out of their system, including that snake-bite play against Houston. The guys will play well.

(5) Strong and Gilbert will make better decisions on play selections: the odds are just staggering against them making the same mistakes after what they've seen this season.

(6) ucf is not that good. Solid but not world beaters. I've watched a lot of their games now. With Flowers and our RBs, I think we will move the ball and score plenty. Not a problem!

(7) All things being equal, I think the intangibles favor USF. Plus, ucf hasn't had to fight for a game this year; they don't know what it's like. Get on top of them and they will start to doubt. And deep down they know their coach is gone after a few more games. That's got to eat at them.

Home field advantage? I don't think so. Our players are just going across I-4 and taking their year-long frustrations out on the rusted tin men!

These gnats are very average (as in not a FSU-like team when we played FSU).

 

USF WINS! I GUARANTEE IT! ---In all the years on this forum, don't think I've ever guaranteed a victory before. :04-rock:

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Houston did. That was their gameplan and it worked.  I just hope UCF wasn't watching that game.

 

Other than that lets beat that team from mousetown down! 

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50 minutes ago, Gatorbull325 said:

USF Offense - #12

UCF Offense - #5

USF rush  defense is ranked #22

UCF Rushing defense ranked #54

USF - Total defense - #21

UCF Total defense - #51

I feel Tice will have 200yds,/2 td, Flowers 126yds 2 touch downs, DJ - 84yds, 1 td and we total  over 500 rushing yards. Please we have a better defense, so we shall shut them down as well. 

 

UCF's defensive rankings here might be affected by garbage time yards given up. They've had two close games...at SMU and at Navy. Nobody else has come within 3 touchdowns. They've also had a tougher schedule. We can't afford another off night by QF, or our defense giving up big plays, or our special teams allowing kicks/punts to be blocked. Everything will have to click to win this. Nothing wrong with thinking positive, but this almost feels like a DJ thread. Almost seems like some of you haven't been watching....

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