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UF coach Dan Mullen pushes right buttons to get Gators to the Peach Bowl

The minute the Florida Gators’ four-win season ended in November 2017, Chauncey Gardner-Johnson was finished with football for awhile.

Not once did he even bother to tune into one of 38 bowls or three playoff games — an exercise in restraint for a 20-year-old male in possession of a remote control.

“We ain’t in it, so what am I watching it for ... to get mad?” Gardner-Johnson said this week.

This season under new head coach Dan Mullen, Gardner-Johnson and the Gators got even.

Following an impressive and improbable five-win turnaround, No.