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Chaos Around the Country Makes Style Points Critical for Florida's Playoff Push

Florida survived a scare on Saturday afternoon in "The Swamp," and not the ironic and humorous kind like in the Scary Movie films.

The Gators survived a 20-14 overtime scare from two-win Florida Atlantic and looked lost in the process. They managed just 253 total yards against the seventh-best defense in Conference USA, quarterback Treon Harris completed just eight of his 17 passes and allowed five sacks to a defense that hadn't managed a single one over its previous two games.

Florida head coach Jim McElwain

"When something bad happens they mope around,'' he said, according to Scott Carter of GatorZone.