The Gators’ meetings with the Gamecocks this season and last have both come at precarious times in Florida’s grueling schedule. For the second year in a row, the Gators will head into the game following a loss, which is quite the coincidence considering UF has lost just four games in the past season and a half.
The South Carolina State Fair is in Columbia this week across the street from Williams-Brice Stadium.
Adversity is nothing new to the Gators football team. The rash of injuries to key players on both sides of the ball has been well documented, but a loss is something Florida hasn’t swallowed in quite some time.
BATON ROUGE, La. — The Florida defense went into Saturday night’s top-10 showdown with LSU leading the SEC in scoring defense (9.5 points per game), sacks (26) and interceptions (12).
BATON ROUGE, La. — The game was close. Shocker. LSU won. Not too surprising. Florida’s offense kept it in the game, and the defense was the reason it lost it. Wait, what?
BATON ROUGE, La. — Kyle Trask picked an inopportune time for his biggest mistake of the season.
You know that paradoxical question: “What happens when an unstoppable force meets meets an immovable object?”
The Gators haven’t faced LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in nearly three years. The rivals played their last two games in Gainesville thanks to an arrangement stemming from Hurricane Matthew in 2016.
Kyree Campbell was right: The Gators indeed played “big boy ball” Saturday night.
There’s usually a pretty surefire way to lose a game against a good team: Just give the ball away.
A morning of festivities led into an afternoon of football in Gainesville, surrounded by a raucous Florida crowd. College GameDay, a top-10 matchup and an SEC rivalry incited more than 90,000 fans into a frenzy, and every tackle produced a near-earthquake cheer.
Another week of the college football season is in the books, and it still feels like we don’t know anything about any of these teams.
It has been a long time since there was this much anticipation for a game in Gainesville.
For the second time this year, Florida dropped in the AP Top 25 Poll after a win.
Florida’s defense looked like a completely different unit when it came out of the locker room for the second half against Towson on Saturday.
It's hard enough for a defense to stop a quarterback from beating it through the air. The defense needs to cover the receivers downfield, pressure the quarterback consistently and make the plays when the ball is in the air.
Any lingering doubts about Florida redshirt junior quarterback Kyle Trask were put to rest on Saturday.
Towson should have known better.
Four games in and the No. 9 Gators remain an enigma. Close calls and injuries have hampered the team through the season thus far, but it remains in playoff contention, though the schedule gets no easier.
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