Forde-Yard Dash: How Florida Became the SEC Epicenter of Dysfunction

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where the pink slips keep flying every Sunday:

FIRST QUARTER: THE DEATH STAR IMPLOSION AT FLORIDA

Florida (1) didn’t used to reside in the upper echelon of the Southeastern Conference dysfunction rankings—when you share a league with Auburn, LSU and Tennessee, the chaos cream rises to the top and stays there. But with the firing of Dan Mullen (2) Sunday, the school now has had consecutive football coaches who went from good to gone in the space of just weeks.

In 2017, the Gators were coming off consecutive SEC East titles and had a 3–1 start on the season. Then they lost to LSU and Texas A&M by a combined three points, and…