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Just for fun, as I am sure the players do not mind the comparisons...
I picked similar players in similar roles.

Jeff Driskel vs. Ingle Martin
Mike Gillislee vs. Ciatrick Fason
Carl Johnson vs. Max Starks
Mike Pouncey vs. Mike DeGory
Bobby McCray vs. Derrick Harvey
Jarvis Moss vs. Carlos Dunlap
Omar Hunter vs. Marcus Thomas
Sharif Floyd vs. Ray McDonald
Keiwan Ratliff vs. Reggie Nelson
Channing Crowder vs. Brandon Spikes
Jon Bostic vs. Brandon Siler
Matt Leach vs. Caleb Sturgis
Chaz Henry vs. Kyle Christy

How about Rex Grossman instead of Ingle Martin? Mike Pouncey was in the NFL in 2012. Jarvis Moss nor Carlos Dunlap played on the 2012 team. Ratliff vs Nelson? WTF? Neither of those guys were on the team anywhere near 2012 as well as Crowder and Spikes. Dude. WTF?

Rock be trolling us all.

Now that I just stumbled on this thread again...

What I had intended was for us to compare teams from the early 2000s to the early 2010s...

(I first came to UF in the early 2000s.) The early 2010s players on a team would probably destroy the early 2000s teams in any match; that's why most of the latter is in the NFL, while few of the former is. Still, I think the early 2000s teams were better college players than NFL players, and had advantages at some positions.

Ben Troupe was a great college TE. WRs during 2002-2004 would get destroyed; the slow group of Carlos Perez, Kelvin Kight, and OJ Small. Would be interesting to see if which team would perform better on defense; namely, how much Sharif Floyd and Omar Hunter would be facing the OL of the early 2000s, or Marcus Thomas and Ray McDonald facing the OL of now.

All the years had great punters (Wilbur, Henry, Christy).