One thing that is not mentioned about our late season turnaround is the fact that by that stage we were playing with our third options in the secondary because of injuries.
I always thought it was more likely Smart using Beck to try to blow up the UF-AR relationship by pretending interest in UF.
We were down to our 3rd or 4th string options at cb, so that is the kind of prevent defense you play in those circumstances. We locked down inside the 30 because we had the DL to do that. I wouldn't call it epic as much as they chose foolishly to keep pressing the 4th down button.