Jeremy Foley even went out of his way to congratulate kicker Jonathan Phillips.
If UF's athletics director wants to praise every UF player who played well Saturday night, he better clear his calendar.
LSU, on the other hand, has an agenda that is now packed full of rebuilding plans, because the Gators certainly made them reconsider everything about their season in a 51-21 dismantling Saturday night.
Gainesville finally got to witness its Heisman Trophy winner play like a Heisman Trophy winner. They saw Percy Harvin play like the next potential Heisman Trophy winner and got to observe Brandon Spikes and Jeff Demps reign like they were in high school again.
When Tim Tebow said two weeks ago he was going to push his teammates and himself harder than anybody else in the nation, the Tigers were the ones standing on the edge of the cliff.
"We wanted to dominate," said Tebow, who finished with 232 total yards and three scores. "We wanted to go out there and play physical. We heard the talk all week and everything like that. We wanted to come out there and play physical, and we did that."
No kidding.
Let's put it this way: Spikes had more rushing yards than the Tigers' Charles Scott, the seventh-leading runner in the nation going into Saturday.
On Spikes' 52-yard touchdown interception return, he outgained Scott's total for the day by 15 yards. Scott finished with just 35 yards on 12 carries, and 18 of those yards came on one carry. Other than that, it was 11 carries for 17 yards.
Demps had more than that on one of his runs when he scampered 42 yards for his fourth touchdown of the year. He's averaging 13.3 yards per run. When some teams were recruiting Demps, they were afraid he was more of a track runner than a football player. With 307 yards and four touchdowns so far this season, it's safe to say those thoughts were wrong.
"If we get through the line, it's game over," Demps said.
Chris Rainey also had 66 rushing yards on 11 carries.
"We spread them out and used the pass to set up the run," Tebow said. "They were kind of on their heels a little bit. … We were really able to gash them. Those guys are so fast, if you can spread a defense out, four or five receivers and bring somebody in, when they hit, they can make some big yardage."
Sometimes, however, the Gators only needed a short amount of yards. After the Tigers trimmed the lead to 20-14, UF was on the verge of giving the ball right back to LSU on third-and-three. Two weeks ago, Tebow couldn't get a first down on fourth-and-one, sealing the Gators' loss. This time, the Heisman winner got the first down and continued to lead the Gators down the field for a touchdown.
After that, the Tigers were left running with their tails between their legs.
"That drive shows the maturity and composure we have now," Tebow said.
And that's not even to mention what Harvin did in the first quarter. The junior receiver finished with 112 receiving yards and two touchdowns, but if Tebow had kept feeding him the ball, an even bigger game would've been possible.
"To me, it's not about our start. It's about how we finish," Harvin said. "Last year, we let them come back in the game, so getting up was big, but we were focused on finishing."
Now, the Gators can officially erase the memories of Jacob Hester bulldozing his way for first down after first down.
This is a new UF team. And a team that most shouldn't look forward to playing against.
"Those kids played their rear ends off," UF coach Urban Meyer said. "They got a little chip on their shoulder, and they went as hard as they could."
