Goodyear Cotton Bowl: #7 Florida Gators vs #6 Oklahoma Sooners

[Escambia94]

The #7 Florida Gators (8-3) return to the Lonestar State to take on the #6 Oklahoma Sooners (8-2) on Wednesday, December 30th at 8:00 PM Eastern Time/ 7:00 Central Time. The Gators and Sooners have only played each other once before, which was a 24-14 victory for the Gators on their way to a BCS National Championship. The Gators are favored by 3 and the O/U is at 71.5.

The Gators will be without All-American and All-SEC tight end Kyle Pitts, 1st team All-SEC all-purpose player Kadarius Toney, and senior wideout Tre Grimes. With most fans focusing on offense, it can be hard to imagine that this Oklahoma team is entering this game with a top-15 defense while Florida has a bottom-50 defense.

Offense:

• Florida
  • #9 total offense/ #5 offensive efficiency (184.43) / #11 scoring (41.6 PPG) (756 plays, 5597 YD, 7.4 YPP, 56 TD, 508.8 YPG)
  • #110 rushing 4.04 YPC, 120.5 YPG, 11 TD
  • #1 passing 4272 YD, 9.98 YPA, 14.43 YPC, 45 TD, 7 INT, 388.4 YPG
• Oklahoma
  • #18 total offense/ #32 offensive efficiency (171.29) / #9 scoring (41.8 PPG) (716 plays, 4758 YD, 6.65 YPP, 51 TD, 475.8 YPG)
  • #75 rushing 4.07 YPC, 154.2 YPG, 24 TD
  • #11 passing 3216 YD, 9.54 YPA, 13.74 YPC, 27 TD, 8 INT, 321.6 YPG

Defense:

• Florida
  • #63 total defense (782 plays, 4452 YD, 5.69 YPP, 41 TD, 404.7 YPG)
  • #46 rushing defense (409 plays, 1611 YD, 3.94 YPR, 13 TD, 146.4 YPG)
  • #93 passing defense (373 pass, 2841 YD, 25 TD, 7.62 YPP, 9 INT, 145.62 RAT)
  • #63 scoring defense (28.64 PPG)
• Oklahoma
  • #19 total defense (659 plays, 3336 YD, 5.06 YPP, 28 TD, 333.6 YPG
  • #2 rushing defense (296 rush, 906 YD, 3.06 YPR, 17 TD, 90.6 YPG)
  • #10 passing defense (363 pass, 2430 YD, 6.69 YPP, 11 TD, 13 INT, 114.44 RAT
  • #31 scoring defense (21.9 PPG)

Although the defensive stats look weighted towards Oklahoma, consider the fact that Florida has faced similar rushing defenses and performed adequately: #1 Georgia #3 Texas A&M, and #12 Alabama. Florida did pass well against similar passing defense, with Alabama's #27 pass defense only being 10 passer efficiency points behind Oklahoma's #10 pass defense. It is alarming that the Gator defense is allowing all opposing QBs to put up an efficiency rating of 145.62, so that will be something to watch for with the still dangerous Sooner offense. Note that Oklahoma runs a full-time 4-2-5 defense designed to stop the pass with an emphasis on pass rush over run defense.

Key players to watch (1st team all conference noted with "**", 2nd team all conference noted with "*", national award winners noted with "***"):

• Florida
  • QB 11 Kyle Trask GRSR *
  • TE 84 Kyle Pitts JR ***/** [OPT OUT] --> 9 Keon Zipperer SO/ 88 Kemore Gamble RJR
    
  • WR-Z 1 Kadarius Toney SR ** [OPT OUT] --> 3 Xzavier Henderson FR/ 6 Nay'Quan Wright RFR
    
  • WR-Y 8 Tre Grimes TRSR [OPT OUT] --> 89 Justin Shorter TRSO
    
  • WR-X 15 Jacob Copeland RSO [COVID] --> 80 Trent Whittemore RFR
    
  • RB 27 Dameon Pierce JR
    
  • RCB 5 Kaiir Elam SO **
  • MIKE 51 Ventrell Miller RJR
    
  • BUCK/ WILL 11 Mahamoud Diabate SO
  • ST 1 Kadarius Toney SR ** [OPT OUT] --> 9 Keon Zipperer SO
• Oklahoma
  • QB 7 Spencer Rattler RFR
    
  • WR-Z/ PR 17 Marvin Mims FR *
    
  • RB 29 Rhamondre Stevenson TRSR
  • RB 1 Seth McGowan FR
  • FB/HB Jeremiah Hall JR *
    
  • OL Creed Humphrey JR **
    
  • PK Gabe Brkic RSO *
    
  • DE 7 Ronnie Perkins JR *
    
  • DT 95 Isaiah Thomas RJR *
    
  • NT 8 Perrion Winfrey JR *
    
  • DB 6 Tre Brown SR * [OPT OUT] --> Jaden Davis SO/ Woodi Washington FR

Florida's season to this point:

• at Ole Miss 51-35 (Trask 416, Toney 55)
• South Carolina 38-24 (Trask 268, Pierce 51)
• at 21 Texas A&M 38-41 (Trask 312, Wright 31)
• Missouri 41-17 (Trask 345, Trask 47)
• 5 Georgia 44-28 (Trask 474, Pierce 52)
• Arkansas 63-35 (Trask 356, Pierce 69)
• at Vandy 38-17 (Trask 383, Pierce 55)
• Kentucky 34-10 (Trask 256, Pierce 67)
• at Tennessee 31-19 (Trask 433, Copeland 17)
• LSU 34-37 (Trask 474, Davis 81)
• 1 Alabama 46-52 (Trask 408, Jones 24)

Oklahoma's season to this point:

• Miss St, 48-0 (Rattler 290 YD, McGowan 61)
• Kansas St, 35-38 (Rattler 387, McGowan 73)
• at Iowa St, 30-37 (Rattler 300, Pledger 47)
• 22 Texas 53-45 4OT (Rattler 209, Pledger 131)
• at TCU 33-14 (Rattler 332, Pledger 122)
• at Texas Tech 62-28 (Rattler 288, Stevenson 87)
• Kansas 62-9 (Rattler 212, Stevenson 104)
• 14 Oklahoma St 41-13 (Rattler 301, Stevenson 141)
• Baylor 27-14 (Rattler 193, Stevenson 50)
• 6 Iowa St 27-21 (Rattler 272, Stevenson 97)

Based on conference-only performance these teams are hard to predict, but the model predicts the following output:

• Florida:
  • Passing: FLA 7.4 YPPF/ OKL 6.69 YPPA = 0.91 EPS = 0.91 * 388.4 = 353.1 YDE
  • Rushing: FLA 4.04 YPCF/ OKL 3.06 YPRA = 0.76 ERS = 0.76 * 120.5 = 91.6 YDE
  • Scoring: FLA 41.6 PPGF/ OKL 21.9 PPGA = 0.53 ESS = 0.53 * 41.6 = 21.9 PE
• Oklahoma
  • Passing: OKL 6.65 YPPF/ FLA 7.62 YPPA = 1.15 EPS = 1.15 * 475.8 = 545.2 YDE
  • Rushing: OKL 4.07 YPC/ FLA 3.94 YPR = 0.97 ERS = 149.3 YDE
  • Scoring: OKL 41.8 PPGF/ FLA 28.64 PPGA = 0.69 ESS = 28.64 PE

The model expects a victory for Oklahoma, 29-22. Taking into consideration how the rest of their respective conferences perform we scale the SEC scores by 0.94 and the Big 12 scores by 0.71 resulting in an expected score of 20.6 Florida, 20.3 Oklahoma, or 21-20 in favor of Florida if you believe that the SEC statistics are 1.33 times underrepresented in the statistical rankings. Irrespective of conference, the Gator defense allows 92% of an opponent's expected rushing output, or 97% of the opponent's passing output. The Sooner defense allows 71% of an opponent's expected rushing output, or 98% of an opponent's passing output. Looking at the respective teams against their own conferences, both teams' defenses are within a percentage point of limiting opposing passing output. Oklahoma's rush defense is far superior to Florida's rushing attack, but the Gators have thrived off a heavily imbalanced offense, which puts them at an advantage. The only additional factors to consider are opt-outs. The Gators are missing their top two weapons, despite the Gators winning games this season without those weapons at full capacity. Final prediction: Gators 21, Sooners 20.

 

[Leakfan12]

Copeland is out as well.

 

[DRU2012]

I don’t know for sure why all these guys won’t be playing (I admit I haven’t been following the latest “background details” of our Team or this game of late)...
I suspect it has to do more with “don’t wanna risk anything before the draft” than any current injury...Can’t say that gives me any sense of mutual loyalty or honor—but it is the way things mainly ARE nowadays (if you’re not Kyle Trask, at any rate—one more way his prior and CONTINUED behavior as a teammate and honorable person SHOULD be more taken into account in the Heisman consideration, IMHO)...
Anyway, though it may damage our draft prospects (hopefully to a mostly minor degree), all in all I doubt we’ll show that well in the Cotten Bowl, unless Grantham’s defense somehow manages ITS best game of the year BY FAR!
Like I say, far as I can see, “NEXT season” has already STARTED.

 

[Leakfan12]

Pitts, Toney, and Grimes are out because of the Draft. Copeland is out because he got the Covid. The next leading receiver is RB Malik Davis with 29 catches. Shorter (a Receiver) has 23. After that only the two other running backs only have double-digit catches. Not liking their odds, not to mention isn't one of the linebacker suspended? However, OU Defense isn't that good either so.

 

[DRU2012]

Pitts, Toney, and Grimes are out because of the Draft. Copeland is out because he got the Covid. The next leading receiver is RB Malik Davis with 29 catches. Shorter (a Receiver) has 23. After that only the two other running backs only have double-digit catches. Not liking their odds, not to mention isn't one of the linebacker suspended? However, OU Defense isn't that good either so.

Talk about a down beat, let down ending to a once-exciting and PROMISING season:
Kyle Trask is about to get totally dissed by the Heisman folks, then go out and bang his head against the wall on our behalf in a bit of an end-of-season debacle I fear in the Cotton Bowl.
As for 2021, we’ll know pretty early (possibly before even STARTING PLAY by what happens at QB in spring and summer), for sure how things go in the early going, either Emory Jones will turn out to be everything Dan Mullen recruited him to become here and 2021 indeed can be the dawn of the Next Great Gator Era, or merely a “transition year” to “what we can and WILL BE” as we find ourselves and develop under a new leader and collection of new stars.
However: ALL of that, either one depends of course on a dramatic upgrade on defense. Nary a sign of anything really developing THERE yet though.

 

[Escambia94]

The complete list of Gators who have opted out in order to prepare for the NFL Draft (as of December 29th):

• TE 88 Kyle Pitts JR
• WR-Z 1 Kadarius Toney SR
• WR-Y 8 Tre Grimes TRSR
• LCB 3 Marco Wilson RJR

So far there is one Gator out for COVID:

• WR-X 15 Jacob Copeland RSO

Oklahoma has one confirmed opt out for the NFL Draft and one rumored:

• DB 6 Tre Brown SR
• RB 29 Rhamondre Stevenson TRSR (rumored)

 

[Escambia94]

After looking through all my analysis I am tempted to modify my prediction. Pitts, Toney, Grimes, and Copeland represent 31 out of the 43 TD receptions. The leading scorers for the Gators are below. I will keep my score prediction, but I am perfectly fine with being wrong on this one. It would not surprise me to see this turn into a shootout with Oklahoma winning 62-42 or something like that. The Gators still have talent and size on their side to possibly keep this game closer to a 21-20 game.

1. McPherson 96 (51 PATs, 15 FGs)
   
2. Toney 72 (1 rush, 10 rec, 1 punt return)
3. Pitts 72 (12 rec)
4. Grimes 54 (9 rec)
5. Pierce 30 (4 rush, 1 rec)
6. Copeland 18 (3 rec)
7. Shorter 18 (3 rec)
8. Gamble 18 (3 rec)
9. Trask 18 (3 rush)
10. Howard 12 (6 PATs, 2 FGs)
11. Zipperer 12 (2 rec)
12. Wright 12 (2 rec)
13. Jones 6 (1 rush)
14. Whittemore 6 (1 rec)
15. Henderson 6 (1 rec)
16. Carter 6 (1 fumble rec)

 

[Leakfan12]

Wilson is gone, GOOD.

 

[DRU2012]

Wilson is gone, GOOD.

LOL
KNEW you’d be happy bout that LF.
I wonder how much his “being in the doghouse” with coaches AND teamates after the LSU-end-of-game fiasco (as I have heard he WAS, at least in the days right AFTER that loss, I heard)...but there was I am told a kind of “subsequent healing” in following days with the realization/insight/shared responsibility that “there was plenty of blame to go AROUND” before, during and AFTER that particular boneheaded let-down, too.
Anyway, HE’S not a loss that I count among the particularly damaging.
But we are NOT the team that showed so MUCH on offense as they hit their stride mid-season. Not even CLOSE.
And it ISN’T just that we probably LOSE this matchup in the Cotten Bowl, giving us 4 losses and almost certainly knocking us from the Top Ten (which, like it or not, damages our apparent standing in the eyes of prospective recruits); like it or not, these kids see and note all that, allow it to affect their ultimate decisions at a gut level.
No, there is another, more SELFISH PERSONAL reason I HATE not seeing these guys play:
We don’t get to see Kyle Trask and this offense “Do Their Thing” ONE MORE TIME! And THAT SUCKS!

 

[DRU2012]

After looking through all my analysis I am tempted to modify my prediction. Pitts, Toney, Grimes, and Copeland represent 31 out of the 43 TD receptions. The leading scorers for the Gators are below. I will keep my score prediction, but I am perfectly fine with being wrong on this one. It would not surprise me to see this turn into a shootout with Oklahoma winning 62-42 or something like that. The Gators still have talent and size on their side to possibly keep this game closer to a 21-20 game.

1. McPherson 96 (51 PATs, 15 FGs)
   
2. Toney 72 (1 rush, 10 rec, 1 punt return)
3. Pitts 72 (12 rec)
4. Grimes 54 (9 rec)
5. Pierce 30 (4 rush, 1 rec)
6. Copeland 18 (3 rec)
7. Shorter 18 (3 rec)
8. Gamble 18 (3 rec)
9. Trask 18 (3 rush)
10. Howard 12 (6 PATs, 2 FGs)
11. Zipperer 12 (2 rec)
12. Wright 12 (2 rec)
13. Jones 6 (1 rush)
14. Whittemore 6 (1 rec)
15. Henderson 6 (1 rec)
16. Carter 6 (1 fumble rec)

Thanks again for laying it all out, E-.
Now, here’s a more “emotion-based” question for you:
How do you FEEL about this “Brave New World” where “the line” between “student athlete”/“Teammate” and “Pro” floats backward and its placement actually picked and PLACED by the young man himself—more and more now earlier and earlier still: At THIS point it is getting to be all but de rigeur to “declare oneself eligible” almost immediately after the final gun of your team’s last REGULAR SEASON’S game.
Again: One might argue the possible “differences” between his and the situations of others—but it is ALSO arguably a matter of personality, commitment and “honor” that KYLE TRASK IS PLAYINGin the Cotton Bowl, whereas the senior stars whom he arguably enabled INTO their “draft potential” in the first place, are not.
I understand the latters’ reasons for not wishing to “risk themselves” when they and their family’s “lifetime meal ticket” is about to be punched—but one could also ask, “Where will all this likely END?”, and “Risk is PART OF THE GAME; ‘IT’ could happen anytime ANYWAY...Isn’t honor and loyalty, depth-of-personality worth something TOO??!”
I don’t know; easy for me to talk, criticize...I can’t be sure that I’m not just being selfishly biased—or that I might not have felt EXACTLY the same way if I were in their positions when I was that age. In fact, very likely I would have...But once again:
You gotta love Kyle Trask. (And PRAY he comes through it all healthy AND a decent draft-placement that PAYS OFF for him come The Day!

 

[Escambia94]

Thanks again for laying it all out, E-.
Now, here’s a more “emotion-based” question for you:
How do you FEEL about this “Brave New World” where “the line” between “student athlete”/“Teammate” and “Pro” floats backward and its placement actually picked and PLACED by the young man himself—more and more now earlier and earlier still: At THIS point it is getting to be all but de rigeur to “declare oneself eligible” almost immediately after the final gun of your team’s last REGULAR SEASON’S game.
Again: One might argue the possible “differences” between his and the situations of others—but it is ALSO arguably a matter of personality, commitment and “honor” that KYLE TRASK IS PLAYINGin the Cotton Bowl, whereas the senior stars whom he arguably enabled INTO their “draft potential” in the first place, are not.
I understand the latters’ reasons for not wishing to “risk themselves” when they and their family’s “lifetime meal ticket” is about to be punched—but one could also ask, “Where will all this likely END?”, and “Risk is PART OF THE GAME; ‘IT’ could happen anytime ANYWAY...Isn’t honor and loyalty, depth-of-personality worth something TOO??!”
I don’t know; easy for me to talk, criticize...I can’t be sure that I’m not just being selfishly biased—or that I might not have felt EXACTLY the same way if I were in their positions when I was that age. In fact, very likely I would have...But once again:
You gotta love Kyle Trask. (And PRAY he comes through it all healthy AND a decent draft-placement that PAYS OFF for him come The Day!

I hate that college athletes are being treated more and more like professionals, but this was inevitable. I will say that if college sports starts looking like professional sports with political activism then I am done watching American sports. I will only watch Canadian football, Australian football, and rugby.

Kyle Trask may be the last of his kind: a consummate college athlete playing for the love of the game.

 

[DRU2012]

@Escambia94, :
I couldn’t possibly agree with you more.
I’m NOT being self-righteous about it either: I do understand that young people, the smart ones, have opinions about things—I know and remember that I sure as hell did. I look back now and know I was FULL OF SH*T about at LEAST half the stuff I felt strongly and voiced opinion about...but right or wrong, I stood up for what I believed in, and even when I disagreed with them, neither condemned nor belittled those who seemed to be honestly trying to do the same, as best as they saw fit.
But here’s HOPING that albeit “inevitable drift” of rationalization that seems to be inexorably moving today’s game in general and its young players here in America in particular (tempted as they are by the enormous sums of money being thrown about now) back towards the “enlightened self-interest” (a modern rationalizing of “I want MY piece!”) of the “creeping professionalism” you refer to is NOT something with an “inevitable certainty of momentum all its own”—or l’ll have NO SPORTS (once my one close-to-pure emotional outlet) left to watch and/or follow. As it is, I have kept my “ESPN+” service contract at a few bucks-per-month (NOT merely because it is a pain-in-the-BUTT to drop, then get back, through FireTV and PRIME, but) because among things like Australian Rules, Irish hurling and other similarly obscure but entertainingly and heartfeltedly PLAYED leagues out there, the CFL, even suspended (for Covid) this year, remains one of the last I too am counting on RETURNING come late Spring.

 

[Leakfan12]

It sucks though most of the leading receivers are missing out but I understand. Case in point, Jake Butt (yes, that's his name). He was a Michigan Tight End who got hurt in the Orange Bowl and he was graded at first a second-rounder but with an injury. He dropped in fifth round though he's still on the Denver Broncos. I prefer they play but I get it. Those guys would have played if the team went to the playoffs.

 

[DRU2012]

It sucks though most of the leading receivers are missing out but I understand. Case in point, Jake Butt (yes, that's his name). He was a Michigan Tight End who got hurt in the Orange Bowl and he was graded at first a second-rounder but with an injury. He dropped in fifth round though he's still on the Denver Broncos. I prefer they play but I get it. Those guys would have played if the team went to the playoffs.

I remember that! And going back, there have of course been even more extreme examples of potential fortunes lost. In Butts’ case, he lost out on some substantial bonus dollars on the “front end” of his first NFL contract—but at least he did catch on, eventually earn decent annual money and something of a career...In this way, he ultimately somewhat “beat the odds”!
In the long run, part of the whole college athlete pay-for-play argument in this way goes BEYOND just things like the enormous stadium and television profits, payment-for-name-and-likeness discussion and on and on: It has long been argued that at the very LEAST there be SOME kind of insurance coverage for these young men in event of injury as their college careers and onfield exposure expands and gains intrinsic value—to the team AND their own FUTURES!
Of course, sometimes such arrangements are privately arranged in certain stars’ senior seasons, but this is an argument with deeper, wider implications. Leaving it an open, uneven and inconsistent “hit or miss” affair is fraught with danger and inequities. The whole question of what to do about this AND all the money that undeniably IS OUT THERE (“Commerce is being DONE!”) only intentionally IGNORES THE OBVIOUS. If we DON’T consciously and fairly approach and address these questions, the agents, attorneys and worse (film-flammers like Cam Newton’s dad) will get involved and eventually FORCE courts and/or various “outside bodies” to get involved—and that very scenario we all dread will come to pass: Over THAT horizon lies the END of CollegeFootball at least as we have known and loved it.

 

[Escambia94]

It will be interesting to see which receivers step up.

• WR 89 TRSO Justin Shorter 23 REC 243 YD 3 TD
• TE 89 RJR Kemore Gamble 9 REC 147 YD 3 TD
• WR 3 FR Xzavier Henderson 8 REC 136 YD 1 TD
• WR 80 RFR Trent Whittemore 8 REC 81 YD 1 TD
• TE 9 SO Keon Zipperer 7 REC 107 YD 2 TD
  
• WR 12 SR Rick Wells 6 REC 77 YD
• WR/ST 82 RFR Ja'Markis Weston
• WR/ST 0 FR Ja'Quavion Fraziars

I assume Rick Wells is not playing. I have no idea if Ja’Quavion Fraziars or Ja’Markis Weston traveled today, but they would need to step up in order to make this offense more dynamic.

 

[DRU2012]

It will be interesting to see which receivers step up.

• WR 89 TRSO Justin Shorter 23 REC 243 YD 3 TD
• TE 89 RJR Kemore Gamble 9 REC 147 YD 3 TD
• WR 3 FR Xzavier Henderson 8 REC 136 YD 1 TD
• WR 80 RFR Trent Whittemore 8 REC 81 YD 1 TD
• TE 9 SO Keon Zipperer 7 REC 107 YD 2 TD
  
• WR 12 SR Rick Wells 6 REC 77 YD
• WR/ST 82 RFR Ja'Markis Weston
• WR/ST 0 FR Ja'Quavion Fraziars

I assume Rick Wells is not playing. I have no idea if Ja’Quavion Fraziars or Ja’Markis Weston traveled today, but they would need to step up in order to make this offense more dynamic.

At this point, just more reasons why this game is more a peak at the 2021 Season (its potential “look” and partipants on OUR squad, anyway) than any kind of climax or proper finish to this 2020 one.
I first proposed this idea as an abstract based on many factors...The current outlook with our frontline receivers (and top playmakers) definitely not participating only makes it more LITERALLY so...
HELL!—If Trask weren’t playing it would be pretty well COMPLETELY THE CASE! We’d get to see what our Head Coach would try to do with Emory Jones and “the next layer” of “new guys”
...AND having to outscore an opponent whose strength is on defense, in a situation where WE have yet to address our proven great deficiencies on that side of the ball ourselves!
It is hard to be optimistic heading into tonight’s match-up. Somewhat handicapped on offense, still near-quadriplegic on defense (as we have been much of this YEAR!), I believe our HEAD Coach-the-scheme-and-adapt, “QB-Whisperer” Offensive Genius will find ways to make a game of it as long and as far as his players will believe, commit and PLAY ALONG—but I’m nowhere NEAR as hopeful when it comes to our DC and/or HIS talents, insights or adaptability.
Mullen has said he would wait until AFTER the season to “fully evaluate” and “make a decision” concerning what changes and adjustments will have to be made in the various areas and phases of the game. Clearly, for him, “AFTER” meant “after” our Bowl Game “officially” ends this “ongoing 2020 season”.
So be it then.
No matter what, I for one will look forward somewhat with both excitement and wonder at what exactly Dan Mullen, an active and preemptive “CAN-DO GUY”, will in fact DO to see that wholesale changes come to this program AFTER tonight—what it will mean and how it will manifest ON THE FIELD with the COMING of the ACTUAL “2021 SEASON”!
For now, it is about a half hour or so until kickoff in this one, the 2020 Season’s Cotton Bowl.
I look forward to THIS SEASON being GONE—OVER AND DONE—and we finally moving on from ALL OF IT, all of 2020 with its demons, pitfalls and bummers, putting it ALL behind us...
Joyfully moving ON!
(And doncha think there’ll be more than ONE “shared social release”, official and/or otherwise VARIOUS WILD PARTIES celebrating just THAT, before we get to this time-of-year once more!

 

[Escambia94]

Ouch.

 

[Escambia94]

All I can say is that I am glad I did not choose to go to this game.

 

[DRU2012]

Worst case scenario happening here.
Kyle having another off-night—though Pitts woulda HAD that last “hard high one”...Still, I can’t watch this—ESPECIALLY as a harbinger of what NEXT SEASON could potentially turn out to be from the START!
Yikes! Do you think this will at LEAST mean a wholesale shakeup, focusing mainly on the Defense? I’m thinking (as we all have been) that Emory will have first crack at QB going INTO 2021–and if he has anything LIKE the talent at receiver that Trask had we might be ok on offense again (EMORY just threw a nice long one to Whitamore, who looks pretty good himself).
But what about this D? “Same Ol’ same ol’ “ so far. Pretty depressing, really.
And ANOTHER Trask interceptionright into the defender’s hands in the endzone. Goodbye Cotton Bowl—and goodbye Heisman, if he was even still IN that conversation).
What a full-on collapse by our most reliable player! OUCH!
Good night, my Gator brothers.
Once the sting of this one wears off, we’ll talk about the future and whatever moves Mullen makes in the days and weeks ahead.
I had a feeling about this one—but DAMN: Not like THIS! NOT a Kyle Trask-based breakdown!
He doesn’t DESERVE to end his collegiate career this way.

 

[DRU2012]

All I can say is that I am glad I did not choose to go to this game.

Me TOO!!!