For 30 minutes of football last Saturday at Texas A&M, it looked like the Gators were headed to a bad place — worse than College Station itself, I mean. The offense was playing well early, but the defense was struggling. The game seemed to be following a similar script to the loss against LSU.
Unlike the LSU game, Florida was able to regroup at halftime — and the defense pitched a somewhat surprising shutout in the second half.
Defensively, the Gators were able to clamp down because they made some adjustments. One of their key change-ups was taking away some of Texas A&M’s in-breaking routes.