I saw them play down the stretch and they played very well. They finished 10 - 2 with only losses being to Kentucky. I think the NCAA puts alot of weight into how you finish the year? I thought they were kind of high and Texas was a little low but what do I know?
Absolute joke. The only top end non-conference team they played, Ohio St., pounded them in Gainesville. They lost to Jacksonville and UCF and the SEC is way down this year.
By "we" I mean UCSB. Of course, we have to play them in Tampa and I'm sure since we're traveling from the West Cost, the committee will give us the noon (9am biological time) game. But the mighty Gauchos will roll!
More emphasis on play down the stretch is a horrible way to judge a team's season and merits? We played hard teams to begin, in middle, and end. What if your conference, such as SEC, has weak *** competition and you beat the weak ones down the stretch but your earler games aren't that great. Does that make you more worthy than a team with a hard schedule all the way through and hard games to end. And Florida got rolled by a weaker ranked Kentucky team. The judging criteria was just plain screwed.