Of course it had to end in the most painful way imaginable.
Of course Florida would trail again — early and often and by a lot — against Texas A&M, the long-limbed Aggies’ defense giving the Gators fits. Of course these Gators — the Never Anything Easy Gators, I’ve called them, but maybe the Lazarus Gators, a tag applied to a few of Mike White’s teams, or the Heart and Hustle Gators, to borrow a phrase from a local NBA squad from decades ago, would have worked — would still make a game of it, still fight into overtime from a steep deficit with a stunning comeback.