Trask leads UF to comeback win at Kentucky
By Sam Campisano | Sep. 14, 2019LEXINGTON, Ky. — It all came down to one kick.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — It all came down to one kick.
Florida has its chance for revenge a year after Kentucky marched into Gainesville and ended its 31-year losing streak to UF with a resounding 27-16 victory.
Florida opens conference play against Kentucky in just three days, and a lot has happened since the Gators kicked off the season two and a half weeks ago. Injuries have already piled up for both teams, and young or inexperienced players will need to fill in.
Florida’s football team will likely be without two of its biggest playmakers on both sides of the ball when it takes the field Saturday in Lexington, Kentucky.
After I got home from covering Florida football’s 45-0 throttling Tennessee-Martin, something much more entertaining popped up on my Twitter timeline.
Early season contests against FCS teams can be tough to evaluate. Game plans are dumbed down, young players are constantly rotating in and, above all, the weak competition presents little opportunity for an honest appraisal of the team.
Florida’s victory over Miami two weeks ago wasn’t pretty.
One pass changed everything.
It took Florida more than a quarter of football to find the end zone against Tennessee-Martin.
The stakes for Florida’s home opener against Tennesse-Martin are drastically different from those surrounding its season opener two weeks ago. But the importance of what is essentially a tuneup game against an FCS opponent cannot be understated after the Gators’ blunders in their win over Miami.
Week 1 is officially in the books, and it was a doozy.
There’s a lot we still don’t know about Florida’s football team.
It’s been 293 days since Florida football hosted an opponent in the Swamp.
A bye week is long and tedious for college football fans. While Florida’s Week 0 battle with Miami on Aug. 24 was entertaining, it left a hole for the UF faithful this week while the rest of the country gets to watch their team play.
The dust has settled after Florida’s uninspiring 24-20 season-opening win over Miami. With the team back in Gainesville, the media had the chance to speak with players and coaches after Tuesday’s practice. Here are five of the most interesting quotes:
You don’t have to look far to find critics of Florida football’s Week 0 performance.
Coach Dan Mullen went into Saturday’s matchup against the Miami Hurricanes hoping to win with a conservative mindset. He expected short passes and outside run plays to compensate for an inexperienced offensive line that was sure to have trouble with a Miami defensive line that started four upperclassmen.
Florida’s football team may have had a slightly shorter offseason than the majority of Division I football teams, but it still had 238 days since its last snap of meaningful football to prepare for Miami.