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No. Florida is easily one of the top five teams in the country, and recruits at a top-ten level every single year.

Furthermore, if Alabama can be favored by up to ten points over Notre Dame...

Ultimately, the only reason we can hire a Charlie Strong or a Mike Gundy is that we are in the SEC and we simply have better opportunities to win better games. If the SEC weren't that much better than all the other conferences, we wouldn't be having these sorts of conversations about a new coach at all. We'd still have Dooley, because there wouldn't be anyone else who'd be willing to jump into a situation where he'd have to coach against Saban, Muschamp, Spurrier, and Richt every single year.