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Florida's search for a QB, 10 years after Tebow's 'Promise'

Ten years ago today, the Florida Gators were trapped in a nightmare.

Ranked fourth in the country, a team loaded with NFL talent and led by a Heisman Trophy winner and a national championship-winning coaching staff tried to figure out how an unranked Ole Miss team that already lost to Wake Forest and Vanderbilt came into the Swamp and won.

Three lost fumbles. A blocked extra point. One-for-11 on third down.

"Everything stupid that could happen, happened to us," co-offensive coordinator/offensive line coach John Hevesy, who was Florida's tight ends coach at the time, recently said of the game.