UPDATE: Many were outraged at the high scores at this competition.
I love an upset. 
A pre-meet light show wasn’t the only thing that lit up the Huntsman Center in Utah’s final home gymnastics meet of the season. The No. 7-ranked Utes electrified a crowd of 14,930 with the third-highest score in school history and upset No. 2 Florida 198.125-197.875.
The Utes scored season highs on three of four events, making their move on the favored Gators in the second rotation on the uneven bars, where Georgia Dabritz brought down the house with a perfect 10.0. …
Asked if the big bar score surprised him since bars has been an inconsistent event for the Utes this season, coach Greg Marsden responded,
“That’s the bar team I see in the gym all the time. I feel like this is the first time this year they really relaxed and performed how they do in practice.”
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Both Florida and Oklahoma lost this weekend.
I’ll bet the coaches are (secretly) happy. It will sharpen focus going into the BIG meets coming up.
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Wow! I don’t think I remember a season where there is so much parity between the big teams. It’s going to be really tough to pick six in the super six. Utah, Oklahoma, Georgia, LSU, Alabama, Florida, Michigan, UCLA and maybe Stanford are all legitimate threats to win if they hit.
This wasn’t an upset, it was plain overscoring. (more so on UT than FL, but on both sides)
People were getting 10s from a judge, and weren’t sticking…
This was the worst display of NCAA judging/home team favoritism I’ve seen in… well, basically forever.
Wow. That’s saying something.
At some point they’ll have to “reform” NCAA judging.
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