Dan Mullen
Samantha Harrison / Alligator StaffOne of the first things I did as a UF student was buy season tickets for football.
It was the summer of 2017, a couple months before the start of my freshman year. The Gators, led by third-year coach Jim McElwain, were coming off back-to-back SEC East titles and looked poised to take the next step. The prospect of big-time college football down the street from my new home was tantalizing.
Of course, UF’s hopes of taking that next step died quicker than my own hopes of maintaining a 4.