This is getting ridiculous.
UF made opponents look like they had just gotten out of bed and barely combed their hair - again
Percy Harvin made scoring touchdowns look easier than cooking Ramen - again.
The Gators read the opponent's quarterback like a nursery rhyme and kept adding to their interception totals - again.
The run this UF football team is on after drubbing South Carolina 56-6 Saturday is one the 1996 Gators title-winning team would be willing to give a standing ovation. That '96 teams scored an absurd 376 points in conference team, this year's team scored 359. And that's with the majority of their second-string offense playing in the second half of many of those games.
In the stadium that Steve Spurrier made famous, the biggest loss he had ever suffered-as a player or coach - was a 12-point defeat when he was manning the sidelines in 1993 against Florida State.
That's until he and his now-dirt filled visors ambled into Gainesville with an offense that appeared to be color blind as to which team to throw to.
"We got royally beat," Spurrier said.
Beat. Throttled. Embarrassed. Pummeled. However you want to put it, this was a bad day for South Carolina.
For the Gators (9-1, 7-1 Southeastern Conference), on the other hand, this was just another blowout in what's become a common theme. UF's players sprint out of the tunnel hyped, and they stay hyped. The Gators have outscored their last six opponents - all SEC teams - 101-0 in the first quarter.
"In the locker room before the game, we get so much balled up energy," sophomore cornerback Joe Haden said. "It doesn't matter who we play. We've got a plan."
Percy Harvin must've been a big part of that plan. The junior do-it-all speedster finished with 173 total yards, 167 of which were rushing, and two touchdowns.
Junior middle linebacker Brandon Spikes and sophomore strong safety Ahmad Black said it is "impossible" to cover Harvin, and Haden said it's "almost impossible."
In what was a near video-game like play, Harvin took the ball twice on the same play and had two touchdown runs of 26 and 80 yards. He needed just nine touches to get those 173 yards.
"The last little stiff arm, I knew I was going to have to make him miss," Harvin said of the 80-yard run. "The little stiff arm gave me those extra two steps I needed. Once I cleared that, I knew I was gone."
Spurrier went even further with Harvin.
"If he was a tailback on somebody else's team, he'd be a 200-yards-a-game guy," Spurrier said
The scary part for opponents is that it's not just Harvin. The Gators finished with 367 yards on the ground and had six different receivers catch passes. The last time they rushed for 300 yards against an SEC Team was Oct. 12 1996 against LSU.
"Our numbers have been outrageous," Harvin said.
That's for sure. Offensively and defensively. The Gators picked off the Gamecocks quarterbacks three times and held them to just 173 yards of offense. It was South Carolina's worst loss since they lost to UF 63-7 in 1995 with, you guessed it, Spurrier as the coach.
Since their 31-30 loss against Mississippi on Sept. 27, the Gators haven't lost a game by less than 28.
"I probably didn't envision winning by this much," said quarterback Tim Tebow, who had three total touchdowns. "But the effort and enthusiasm, absolutely ( I expected)."
The Gators are now potentially a four-game winning streak away from their second national championship in three years, which is something Spurrier told UF coach Urban Meyer when they met at midfield for the postgame handshake.
"That was the best defense I have ever played against," South Carolina quarterback Chris Smelley said.
That's not something Gators fans have heard in a long time. It's not something Alabama wants to hear, either.
