Crowzilla

The ABSOLUTE best reason not to deal with him.

Thanks and Yes, I have a 9.6 #1.

Just got these back from CGC today, both highest graded.

Every year can't be a winner, but it looks like they will give FSU a go in 2017 (and played them in 2007), they played a top 10 VT team in 2009, Penn State in 2010 and 11, Michigan in 2012, etc. To put them in the same dodgy class as the Gators would be wrong.

It's pure chance when schedules are made 4-6-8+ years in advance to have VT for example, say thank goodness we scheduled OSU in 2014, they'll win the National Championship that year. The point is to schedule quality opponents (at the time of scheduling) and whatever happens in that year happens. You know like when FSU said sure they would go to Michigan in 1991 years ahead of time, not knowing that both would be top 3 teams at the time. Or when OSU and Texas played home and homes a few years ago, or LSU and Oregon recently. It's hard to schedule a NC the year they win the championship, it's not hard to schedule a quality opponent consistently. The Gators have a 70 year history of dodging such games, while your SEC flag-bearer, Alabama, embraces them (as does LSU and Tennessee). And we won't mention your flawed logic that because the Gators lose they are helping teams go on to win the NC, while Miami and FSU might be playing teams and winning to stop them from being champions (say a 1980 Pitt team that was probably the best team in the country, or the 1986 Oklahoma team)

While also scheduling home and homes with Oklahoma, BYU, Notre Dame, Colorado, and Syracuse (plus single games vs. Oklahoma State, and Alabama, while also keeping Miami on the schedule). We'll just go back to 65+ years since since the Gators have won an OOC game outside the state.

Tell that to Alabama, who has more National Championships in the last 80 years than any school in the country. . One school does not a conference make (though the SEC certainly loves to ride Bama's coattails). Guess we all bow down to the Ivy League and Yale's 17 NCs (and 39 total for the Yale-Harvard-Princeton Triumvirate). PS - Alabama also schedules road games against OOC foes. What's Florida's excuse?

8 different teams from Florida or the SEC have won 20 National Championships in the last 35 years, and of the 17 of those that Florida didn't win, they played the National Champion 12 times. So it's rather laughable to criticize Florida for only playing teams from Florida or the SEC during that time, and therefore, I laugh! 1/4 of those 20 NCs were won by Miami - who the Gators dropped as soon as they could. But your math doesn't add up, "of the 17 that Florida didn't win" - do you mean the State of, or the University of? Florida doesn't/hasn't played Clemson, BYU, Penn State, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, Washington, Michigan, etc. All of whom have been vigorously scheduled by the other two major Universities in the state. So yes, I agree with the statement that Miami and FSU are always up to the challenge of playing tough OOC opponents. From 1987 to 2000, FSU had more top 5 finishes than the entire SEC combined. SEC dominance is a relatively new thing.

Ole Miss, Miss State, and Arkansas have played those teams a minimum of 30 times and more if they happened to play against the Gators any of those years. And LSU has a minimum of 30 games also since they are the Gators cross-division rival, PLUS they are willing to schedule tough OOC games. I'd say no team in the country has played a similar schedule to LSU. It's easy to point to recent SEC schedules as "proof" of how tough your schedule is, but I am talking on an historic level. Florida has 0 wins outside the state against winning non-conference schools in over 60 years. Sorry, but you can't use that excuse for the last 60 years of dodging games. That's like saying Michigan has played last year's NC 50x in the last 50 years. Nobody would dare schedule like that.

This. I guess there's nothing inherently wrong with scheduling homecoming against Georgia Southern (unless you are the Gators of course) because you've got those bills to pay, but don't be afraid to schedule home and homes with quality opponents (thank you Tennessee). You get 3-4 non-conference games a year, play someone. Of course the SEC threatens exposure if they start scheduling more non-FCS teams, they were just .500 against the power 5 last year, including 3-5 against the lowly ACC. Kudos to the Big Ten for banning FCS games. 70 years between out-of-state road wins over a winning team is a long time Florida (assuming they even beat Michigan).

I agree that in the past few years that is enough, but found it interesting that when they play Michigan to start the 2017 season it could be their first such win in 70 years. Really? 70 years?!?! (Of course when they are just 13-20-1 on the road against FSU and Miami in the last 25 years, I can see why they would be hesitant to go out of state to get beaten also.)

Close, but Rutgers was 5-5-1 in 1986. But keep looking back a few more decades, you will get it eventually.

Fun trivia question (in two parts): When was the last time the Gator football team left the state and scheduled an out-of-conference road game and won? and When was the last time they left the state and scheduled an out-of-conference road game against a team with a winning record and won?

Who said you're going to win it?

Do you think Jimbo hires Muschamp to be his DC next year?

it's also been pretty well established that you can't really rely on Overstreet value for what a book is actually selling for.

If this is the "Windy City" copy I had a chance to buy this and wanted to but didn't simply because work got in the way and communication with the seller was a little off-putting (I was hearing about it from him as well as from several other people who were telling me of a "better" book which I realized later was actually the same book which they were apparently going to buy from the seller and then resell to me. The prices quoted ranged literally, from 43K to 125K. The guy who actually had it quoted me a price toward the lower side and I was interested but then he sold it without telling me (for a price below what I was prepared to pay). When I asked him why he said that he hadn't paid for the book in full and was worried because he was told by others that "nobody wanted it." Can't tell you how many times I have heard that the "word" on this book or that was "nobody wants it" only to hear later that "everybody wants it". Why would there be a Windy City copy of Tec 27? That collection contained only #1 issues. But it does sound like a story about the "other" high grade Detective 27. And the fact is that it kind of wasn't paid for twice. Jerry originally purchased the book from Geppi and only gave him a 5K deposit. Shortly after this sale the first Sotheby's copy comes to auction and sells for $55K. Of course now Geppi wants to get paid for his much nicer copy (and why shouldn't he?) Jerry initially didn't have all the money to complete the purchase, so I agreed to buy half of the book for 20K which he could give to Geppi and finish paying for the book. Only Jerry never gives Geppi the money. So now I own half a book that is unpaid for and the original owner is getting upset and I think telling other dealers/collectors not to buy it from us as it's not paid for. I tell Geppi I can't pay him for what's owed on the book when I've already given Jerry 20K, and tell Jerry he needs to get this settled immediately and get Geppi and I both paid. He sells the book for an incredible discount to Oklahoma Dave, pays Geppi and I off and Oklahoma Dave turns around and flips the 27 back to Geppi for $81K and sets a new record price for a book at the same time. A pretty sour experience all around.

That was my first thought also Rob. Jerry Jacobs had some photos of him and me with the book and the book by itself from when we owned it, but he passed away last year and his wife hasn't been able to find them. Maybe I will still recognize it if it's the same copy. My other question is when was this copy graded and was it held out of the census until after the Action #1 sale?

I think a lot of people would like to buy large amounts of key GA titles at cheaper than ebay prices...

I guess that really isn't a question, is it? Ummm, did you get any Jell-O? Time to stock up for football season.

I keep watching Sportscenter to see if they have any updates...

id take fsu and lay the points. Do you happen to know the record for points scored by a visiting team at Florida Field/Ben Hill Griffin Stadium?

So the real question for Gator is will the other Gators have their 35-year streak of non-losing seasons end at the hands of their bitter rivals?

Even more surprising since he lives where the greatest egg nog in the lower 48 is produced and sold - Farm Stores! (Ask any Floridian, except Gator apparently, about how awesome it is)

You hope the Canes jump out to a 10-0 lead? Or you hope the Gators can pull off a come-from-behind victory over an unranked team?