Gators Left With Big Chance to Upset 'Noles

The University of Florida and Florida State University football games have had very different football seasons this year.  The Gators, having suffered through a miserable 4-8 season last year, were looking forward to a reasonably successful year this time around, even with many expecting them to win their SEC East Division.  Instead, they stumbled and fumbled around to the point where they are now left with a 6-4 mark and out of the running in their division, but already qualified for a minor post-season bowl game in late December or early January.  They have only one game left before then: next Saturday in Tallahassee against FSU. The Seminoles, on the other hand, are coming off a perfect, undefeated national championship season in 2013 and are still unbeaten so far this year.  They are thick in the running for the national championship playoffs, but because their strength of schedule in the Atlantic Coast Conference is relatively low, they probably need to win both of their next two games to stay in the hunt.  The first of these is the aforementioned matchup against Florida and the second is the ACC Championship game.  Florida has nothing to lose against FSU; even Will Muschamp, their head coach, is leaving after the game regardless of the outcome.  But Florida State has everything to lose in this game..and they already have come excruciatingly close to losing earlier games against Clemson, Louisville, and Miami. They are very clearly, despite having won all of their games so far in 2014, not anywhere near as impressive as last year's team.  Florida has what it takes to beat their cross-state rival, which may be looking ahead to their conference championship game the following week.  I give the Gators a good chance to pull out all the stops and pull off the upset...