Florida Gators or Alabama Crimson Tide: Who Has the Better Football Team in 2009?
The Florida Gators began the season as the number one ranked football team and most people's favorite to win the National Championship. Along the way the Alabama Crimson Tide have gained ground. For one week Alabama moved ahead of Florida at the top of the AP poll. Even though Florida has moved back to number one there is still a lot of support for Alabama. The Alabama Crimson Tide have looked very good in 2009 but the Florida Gators are still the better team.
The past two weeks the Alabama Crimson Tide and Florida Gators have both struggled to win games but the teams are struggling for completely different reasons. The Florida Gators are simply making mistakes. Against Arkansas there were dropped passes, dropped interceptions and the defense gave up one long touchdown. The mistakes have been costly mistakes but the Gators have overcome them and ultimately the Florida Gators are a great team all around. The receiving core could be a little bit better but they're not bad.
The Alabama Crimson Tide have a much bigger problem. Alabama hasn't just made a few mistakes the past two weeks. The Tide have a glaring weakness. For the first few weeks the Alabama quarterback, Greg McElroy, picked up right where John Parker Wilson left off in 2008. McElroy controlled the game, didn't make mistakes and let the defense, Mark Ingram and Julio Jones win the games.
The past two weeks Greg McElroy has just played horrible. Is it possible he just played poorly for two straight weeks and he's going to right the ship? It's possible but two consecutive bad weeks usually means he's not a very good quarterback yet. The quarterback position is not a good position to have a problem. If the quarterback isn't any good then it directly affects the receivers since they aren't getting good passes thrown to them. It also affects the running game because defenses can load up and try and stop Mark Ingram.
The past two weeks the Alabama Crimson Tide and Florida Gators have both struggled to win games but the teams are struggling for completely different reasons. The Florida Gators are simply making mistakes. Against Arkansas there were dropped passes, dropped interceptions and the defense gave up one long touchdown. The mistakes have been costly mistakes but the Gators have overcome them and ultimately the Florida Gators are a great team all around. The receiving core could be a little bit better but they're not bad.
The Alabama Crimson Tide have a much bigger problem. Alabama hasn't just made a few mistakes the past two weeks. The Tide have a glaring weakness. For the first few weeks the Alabama quarterback, Greg McElroy, picked up right where John Parker Wilson left off in 2008. McElroy controlled the game, didn't make mistakes and let the defense, Mark Ingram and Julio Jones win the games.
The past two weeks Greg McElroy has just played horrible. Is it possible he just played poorly for two straight weeks and he's going to right the ship? It's possible but two consecutive bad weeks usually means he's not a very good quarterback yet. The quarterback position is not a good position to have a problem. If the quarterback isn't any good then it directly affects the receivers since they aren't getting good passes thrown to them. It also affects the running game because defenses can load up and try and stop Mark Ingram.
- The Florida Gators have struggled but have just made a few mistakes.
- The Alabama Crimson Tide have a big weakness at the quarterback position.
- The Florida Gators are a better team than the Alabama Crimson Tide.
Comments
A) If you think Alabama has the better defense by a little bit then that's fine, but saying they have the best defense bar-none is moronic since Florida gives up less yards and points than Alabama. B) It doesn't matter if Tebow isn't the same as last year, he's still 100 times better than McElroy so it's still a huge advantage that Alabama doesn't have any other position.
Bama just lacks the explosiveness in a game against Florida because of the QB situation. Can't wait for that potential match-up though.
Gators nuff said.
BAMA4LIFE
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10/29/2009
Dude, Maybe you should stick with playing video games cause you suck at understanding college football. Tebow hasn't been the same since the concusion and Bama has the best defense in the nation, bar none! Defense, my friend, wins championships.
Roll Tide
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10/29/2009
Puh-lease
Voted. Good job
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