There is nothing fortunate about Feleipe Franks’s season-ending injury, but the timing certainly could’ve been worse. Florida got to break in Kyle Trask, Starting Quarterback in about the perfect situation.
Tennessee is an SEC opponent and one of the Gators’ biggest rivals of the last 30 years, so it was a game that the team would not take lightly. And yet, UT is a team with serious talent deficits in many places under questionable management. It was a chance for UF to give Trask a look in a serious but not pressure-packed situation.
Florida and Trask passed the test, but as the advanced stats show, they didn’t pass it in every respect.