Here’s the downside of the Gators’ 2009 schedule: because their out-of-conference schedule is so darn weak (Charleston Southern?!), if they lose any one game, by any margin, they will be out of the running for the MNC, with absolutely no chance to climb back into contention. The Gators will start the season at number one and as the preseason favorites, but anything less than a perfect season will not get them back to the BCS title game.

Atlanta Jackets—-Thanks for playing, but for a predominantly engineering school, there seem to be damn few engineering majors among the Tech football team’s scholarship athletes, and an awfully high number of liberal arts and so-called “business” majors. And anyway you slice it, your football team’s graduation rate is an embarrassment to an otherwise outstanding academic institution. Furthermore, if Tech does not improve its APR soon, it is likely to begin feeling the pain of NCAA scholarship reductions soon, and suffer the ridicule of your fellow ACC schools. Get informed, son, before you hurt someone with your ignorance.

For the record, the Gators also have the second highest graduation rate for football players in the SEC, and the second highest NCAA academic progress rate (APR) in the SEC, with more all-academic SEC athletes than any other conference school.

BTW, while anthropology, sociology, and political science are not under a single department”—-they are all under the College of Liberal Arts, but that is hardly evidence of a conspiracy. So, are the departments of mathematics, chemistry, statistics, physics and astronomy. And this is true for every other major university in America—-if you had actually set foot on a university campus on any day other than a Saturday, you would know this.

But, feel free to keep banging your drum.