According to Pro Football Focus, Florida's OL 5th in the State; #92 nationally;

[Jeff from Jax]

According to Pro Football Focus, the Florida front line ranked No. 92 in the nation out of 130 total teams in 2019.

Among the Big Three schools in the state, Florida finished the highest, while intrastate rivals Florida State finished second-to-last on the list and the Miami Hurricanes earned an even-numbered rank sitting right at No. 100.

Both Central Florida and South Florida finished ahead of all three, with UCF landing in the No. 70 slot and USF at No. 90.

However, it was the two afterthought programs that ranked the highest, with Florida Atlantic ranked at No. 50 and Florida International earning the distinction of fielding the best offensive line in the state, ranked at No. 34.

My inquiring mind wanted to know just how that ranking was computed; I went to the referenced article
https://www.pff.com/news/college-football-ranking-all-130-college-football-offensive-line-situation
& found this -
"...Taking into account the PFF grade for each player to play the majority of snaps at each position, along with each team’s positional rotation, strength of schedule and percentage of positively graded plays against negatively graded plays, here are the offensive line rankings for all 130 FBS teams from the 2019 season.

Not sure how to interpret this article; is it saying that FIU's offensive line is strong enough to open holes in Auburn's front seven ?

Or does the strength of schedule clause compare FIU's OL only to similar quality schools ?

 

[Gator Fever]

Yep it would be relative to the defenses you are playing looking at it.

The metrics may say the pass blocking was no better than the poor run blocking but that is misleading as a lot of that was Trask holding the ball too long getting pressures especially in the middle of the season.

It may have not been great but it wasn't in the 90s all else being equal in pass protection.

 

[hardliner]

Weird, Paco said that the 30 game starter FIU tackle that transferred to FSU sucked because he played at FIU.

 

[instaGATOR]

UF's OL went 11-2 with a Top 10 Team Ranking,,, how-bout the others?

 

[Countygator1]

Only 8 spots ahead of the team that gave up 10 sacks to us? Uhhh, I am going to call this list suspect.....very very suspect.

 

[Gator Fever]

Only 8 spots ahead of the team that gave up 10 sacks to us? Uhhh, I am going to call this list suspect.....very very suspect.

It's definitely misleading but games like Tenn and Auburn where Trask held the ball so long was what was generating all those pressure stats they use.

If Franks remained QB their pass protection number would be much higher even though the passing offense would be worse