“I don’t like losing,” said wide receiver Isaiah Jones, who was visibly torn up. “Our team doesn’t like losing. We don’t like to say ‘oh, we barely just lost to Florida’. That’s not our mentality. We expect to win. It just hurts. It just hurts that we didn’t win.”
After the defense forced a three-and-out with 1:55 remaining in the fourth quarter, junior quarterback Blake Kemp and the Pirates’ offense got the ball on their own 30-yard line. Kemp began to methodically pick apart the Florida defense that was expected to be too strong and too fast for his arm.