You have to hand it to the Southeastern Conference member schools in regards to having the wool pulled over the pollsters eyes.

This season is yet to begin and already the Associated Press has released its pre-season poll and have over-whelmingly voted the University of Florida the No. 1 team in the nation by record numbers.  This is not to say that the Gators do not have a quality team and one that needs to be reckoned with this season, but pollsters need to look beyond the obvious when casting their votes.

For one thing, the Gators have scheduled eight home-games and only four road games this season.  Most college football teams schedule a balanced slate or at the very worst...they schedule seven home and five road games.  Additionally, their out-of-conference schedule is a joke.  Let's take it from the first game of the season, which will pit the Gators against something called Charleston- Southern.  Early betting-lines on this game have Florida favored by 73 points.  If this isn't a travesty, I don't know what is.

Their two other ooc games will be against Florida International and Troy, two teams that should not be mentioned in the same sentence with any major college football team, much less the No. 1 team in the nation.  Why don't the pollsters take this into consideration?  This is a travesty and the question is not whether the Gators will win these games, but rather will any poor soul lose his life or be severly injured in this mismatch which is akin to a professional football team playing a community college team.

These teams do not belong on the same field as the Gators and the school should be penalized for scheduling such cream-puffs.  What is Florida afraid of?  Maybe it's afraid of actually playing an ooc game that it may lose.  The pollsters need to wake up and smell the coffee and stop rewarding Florida and other SEC teams for scheduling greatly out-classed competition.