GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida coach Jim McElwain feels like his teams been too up and down in two seasons.Significant victory one week, pedestrian performance the next.It hasnt happened too often, but McElwain has seen it enough to know he doesnt want it to become a trend. So he challenged his players this week to show theyve grown, ready to better handle success.The 13th-ranked Gators (8-2), coming off a 16-10 upset at LSU that clinched a second straight Eastern Division title for Florida, play at No. 15 Florida State (8-3) on Saturday night.Its a rivalry game with a revenge subplot -- the Seminoles have won three in a row, including a 27-2 drubbing in Gainesville last year -- but its also a chance for the Gators to prove theyve changed their inconsistent ways.Lets call it the way it is, McElwain said. Im not sure weve had a decent win like this was and actually followed it up, you know what I mean? But whether you go win the game or not, its about the effort and the emotion and the way you attack the week of preparation. But thats part of the growth of an organization and a program.So heres another opportunity for us to learn, and weve got a lot of good, young players thatre playing their tails off. Now, can they keep putting it back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back? The sign of consistency is what helps you be successful in whatever youre doing.McElwain didnt offer any examples of his teams past shortcomings. He didnt have to. Theyre obvious.Florida beat Georgia in a rivalry game late last month and then got shellacked the following week at Arkansas, a 31-10 loss that had outsiders wondering if the Gators would win again this season.Last season, the Gators hammered the Bulldogs and then kicked a late field goal the following week to edge Vanderbilt 9-7 and clinch the East. They rebounded the next week at South Carolina, then needed overtime to put away Florida Atlantic at home.So its easy to see why McElwain would be leery with the Seminoles up next .We got to stay hungry, quarterback Austin Appleby said. You cant exhale at all. We got an unbelievable opponent in front of us. We got everything, our goals that we set in the beginning of the season are right there for us. Our destiny is in our hands. We win and we can accomplish anything we want. We know that.We found a win, but we still have a lot of things that we need to build on. As long as we keep bringing that attitude, keep bringing that great focus, we will be OK.The Gators still have an outside shot at making the College Football Playoff. Of course, they need to beat FSU on Saturday and top-ranked Alabama in the SEC title game just to make it a possibility.Thats no easy task. But if they find some consistency week to week, and continue playing great defense and turnover-free football, McElwain believes anything is possible for this team.You learn from failure, all of us do, he said. We learned that youve got to come to play. We arent that good to be able to just show up, and I think weve done that the last couple weeks. I think weve showed up. Youve ... If you dwell on it, its going to be there forever instead of, `What did I learn from it?I thought our guys learned some things from it. And its no different than probably when you were growing up and your mom had a kettle on the stove and you wondered what that red burner was and you probably went over there and touched it and realized, `You know what, that didnt feel very good. So lets not do that again. Those are the lessons we learn in whatever we do.---More AP college football: www.collegefootball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25 Wholesale Air Max 200 . 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For all the tweets, emails and texts I receive each day about trade proposals and waiver-wire pickups -- yes, you should pick up Jrue Holiday if hes available in your league -- all of it pales in comparison to the most important path to success in fantasy hoops, and that is this:Optimize your roster each week based on the NBA schedule and the amount of games each team plays.For many of you, this may not seem like big news. In fact, you might already know it, like I mentioned above. And if youre already a pro at this, well, then keep being a pro. But this is something that far too often goes overlooked, and it shouldnt.The thing is, fantasy basketball is unlike baseball and football in that the schedule has a different amount of games for each team every week. There can be two, three, four or even one or five games in a given week. This differs from football, where there is only one, and baseball, where theres a game basically every night, or at worst, six games in a seven-day span.Some might look at this as a flaw of fantasy hoops, but the best fantasy owners view it as a giant opportunity. If you pay attention to the schedule each week and adjust your roster to maximize the amount of games played, you can out-game your opponent and be more successful on a consistent basis.Now, this doesnt work for every style of play. Leagues that use averages instead of totals and roto leagues that limit the amount of games played in the course of the season do not apply to this principle as much, for example. In those leagues, quality matters more than quantity, and itss more important to make every game count with the best players you have.ddddddddddddFor most head-to-head leagues, though, particularly those where you can only set your roster once per week, optimizing your roster with players who are scheduled to play a lot of games is the most important thing you can do to win.I like to create a roster with two to three spots that can continually be streamed each week, so if my roster size is 15, that means having 12-13 players I intend to keep for as long as possible. The remaining spots are used to add players that are scheduled to play on whatever days I need to fill on a given week.So if you have DeMarcus Cousins and Sacramento is only playing two games this week, maybe youd pick up Bostons Amir Johnson on a four-game week to help fill that center spot on the days Cousins is out.Keep in mind, thats only half of the task; you need to know which days to fill. If Cousins only plays on Tuesday and Thursday, then you want to make sure that anyone you pick up to help out at the center spot plays on the days when Cousins doesnt. For example, if Johnson plays four games and two of them are on the same days Cousins plays, youre only gaining two games by picking up Johnson. But if Johnson plays on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, youre filling four days that would otherwise be unoccupied at the center spot.Go out there and be proactive each week. Look at the NBA schedule, see how many games each team plays and use that information to determine which players to stream into your lineup.Theres no better trick to winning in fantasy basketball than this one, and as easy as it might sound, few people take advantage of it as much as they should.To help you on your way, weve laid out the weekly NBA schedule grid for the 2016-17 season, available here as a downloadable PDF cheat sheet. 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