In 2019, Florida went toe-to-toe with an LSU squad that has since been hailed as one of the greatest in college football history, earning a hard-fought loss in Tiger Stadium that felt like a rising program giving a juggernaut all it could handle.
In 2022’s edition of Florida-LSU, the score on the scoreboard once again showed LSU 42, Florida 28 — but the Gators’ defense strumming all the wrong chords on Tom Petty Day in The Swamp made the feeling a lot more like free-fall for Billy Napier’s first season, even if the final margin shrank to 45-35 in favor of Brian Kelly’s Tigers.