It wouldn’t have been a football game the 2021 Florida Gators played in without a wealth of chances for the team that Dan Mullen built, which fought Alabama to within a failed two-point conversion of a program-defining win.
But it wouldn’t have been a football game the 2021 Florida Gators played in without most of those chances being squandered by a team whose fortunes — much like Mullen’s tenure — will be remembered for missed opportunities because of simple mistakes.
So UCF’s 29-17 win over Florida on Thursday night in Tampa in the 2021 Gasparilla Bowl went just about to whatever script a thousand message board posters pounding on keyboards would have produced, yeah.