Florida Football: Confidence meter for Gators heading into week two

Before the start of the season, we rolled out our confidence meter for all 12 Florida football games. Our confidence for the Utah game was 55%, and it didn’t quite pan out.

So, as the season progresses, we are going to update our meter to reflect the play of the Gators as well as the play of the teams on their schedule.

As we pointed out in our preseason confidence meter, just because we put a percentage over 50% doesn’t mean that we are betting the house on the Gators winning. It just means if Florida stays clean and avoids the dumb penalties like they took against Utah, we like their chances to win.

Florida Football Confidence Meter Week 2: McNeese State

• Last Season: Did not play
• HFH Confidence Meter Preseason: 99%
• HFH Confidence Meter Presently: 100%

Before the season, we put this at 99% with the small caveat that Florida could get super hurt against Utah.

From what we can tell, the Gators stayed healthy and should be and mostly full strength heading into this game.

Despite all the problems Florida had against Utah, McNeese State is not a good team. The Cowboys lost to Tarleton State 52-34 last week and have a paper-thin defense that should allow Florida’s offense to hit some big plays thanks to some super poor tackling from McNeese State.

Likewise, Florida appears to have a much-improved defense where a team like McNeese State shouldn’t cause too many problems, even if they throw in some window dressing to their play calls.

We’ll put it this way: if Florida loses this game, we are hoping off the Billy Napier bandwagon.