Pardon me, as I steal a line from one of my favorite rappers, but "Will the real Gators please stand up?"
UF is midway through its season, and we're still not sure who this team is. Are they the team that didn't turn the ball over in any of its first three games, or the squad that played hot potato with the football against Mississippi?
Are they the crew that served LSU a 51-21 beatdown a week and a half ago, or the guys that limped their way to 17 points through three quarters at Arkansas?
The way the Gators won against the Tigers is the way everyone expected them to play the whole season, so I'm leaning toward giving them the benefit of the doubt and saying this is probably how they will play the rest of the season.
It's just hard to find a reason as to why their offense was showing only flashes of the brilliance that was expected of them the first five games.
My colleagues and I played the guessing game for weeks about whether Tim Tebow had a back injury, whether or not he was having fun and if Dan Mullen was a fool.
I don't think Tebow was hurt, and I think he wasn't having fun because the offense wasn't playing well, not the other way around. I wholeheartedly disagree that Mullen doesn't know what he's doing. The play calling comes off a bit stubborn at times, but he's still the same offensive coordinator whose offense averaged over 42.5 points per game and called the 2006 National Championship game.
A lack of timing on offense appeared to be one of the biggest issues in the first five games-anything else seems to be just guesswork.
When an offense that talented struggles so mightily, that's really all you can do. On paper, the Gators are arguably the most talented team in America -with Southern Cal providing a rather stiff argument - and if the Gators play like it, they can certainly work their way back into the BCS mix.
But the key will be if they continue to play to their players' strengths. For much of the first five games, Chris Rainey and Jeff Demps were made to run up the middle, but when they finally started getting the ball outside, the offense took off.
It's that type of adaptability that has made coach Urban Meyer and his staff a success at UF.
"I have a really good staff, a staff of unselfish people and also a staff of a lot of diversity," Meyer said. "We have guys that have coached the spread offense, wishbone, west coast offense. We don't fit our personnel to the scheme, we fit the scheme to our personnel."
It's that malleability that can make a great coach. Mullen and Meyer did the same thing in 2005 to salvage a 9-3 record with the season on the brink of despair when Chris Leak, Deshawn Wynn, Dallas Baker and Co. couldn't adapt to the nuances of the spread offense.
And now that you've got the speedsters and the quarterback born to play in the offense, it's time for some consistency. Time for them to stand up.
