Florida’s wins this year are over Charleston Southern, Colorado State, and Tennessee.
Those teams are bad, bad, and bad.
Florida’s wins this year are by 47, 38, and 26 points.
And that, friends, is the sort of good thing that we have not seen from the Gators recently.
If Jim McElwain’s Florida program excelled at any one thing consistently, it was beating teams it was supposed to beat — but not by nearly as much as many would have liked.
Florida’s big win over Ole Miss in 2015 is remembered fondly by all Gators who saw (or attended) it, but it was the exception, not the rule: The Gators came into that game having prevailed in one-possession contests against East Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee — that Tennessee game requiring a massive comeback for Florida to win it — and would win just two games by more than 10 points for the rest of the year, rolling up a bad Missouri team in Will Grier’s final start and then smacking Georgia 27-3 thanks to Mark Richt starting Faton Bauta and whatever voodoo Treon Harris had over the Bulldogs.