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Leaving the Auburn football program for the Sunshine State was a popular path this past offseason following the historic 2020 season played under unfathomable pandemic circumstances.
The most prominent name to leave the Plains was the head coach and leading locker-room voice for the past eight seasons, Gus Malzahn. Things didn’t work out for him in his final few years, bottoming out in 2020 with a loss in Columbia to South Carolina and non-competitive efforts against Alabama and Georgia.
With him came Big Kat Bryant, Mark-Anthony Richards, and Nate Craig-Myers to Orlando on the recruiting side.