19-17 Gators A sluggish start from both sides. *Edit With the OL back on board and EW3 getting the all clear I’m amending the score. 31-14 Gators Both teams still start sluggish but KY still hasn’t been tested yet, while we have. Still worried about our youth on the road but I believe Nape has enough data points at this stage on who we can trust on the field.
Gators 31 Pussycats 13 Bottom line: Their O-Line just isn't going to hold up. Gator's win time of possession 2 to 1. 17-10 at halftime, special teams gives up a boneheaded play that puts Kentucky back in the game, game thread is overrun with calls for a ST coordinator. Kentucky students are led by the math majors to storm the field and pull down the goal posts, thinking 13 > 31 and mistaking the final score as a win.
Gators- 23 UK- 21 Kentucky surges a late comeback as the Gators hang on to win a turnover filled defensive slugfest. Jason Marshall gets the game clinching interception in the waning seconds. Go Gators!
It is hard to believe that we went from leading the all-time series 53-18 to losing back to back games for the first time since 1976-1977. The last time the Gators lost three in a row was 1948-1951 (Bear Bryant). If you count series where we skip non-sequential years the Gator lost three in a row 1935-1936 and 1931. All that to say Napier’s attention to detail needs to pay off unless he wants to make history in a bad way. Boys from old Florida 21 Inbred cousin brothers from the hollers of Kentucky 17
