You don’t have to look far to find critics of Florida football’s Week 0 performance.
Twitter mentions and message boards are filled with vitriol toward the Gators. My colleagues and I at alligatorSports have focused on some of the negatives rather than the positives, so I’m here to change up my tone a little bit.
UF beat in-state rival Miami on a neutral site, and it should be treated as exactly what it was: a win.
The Hurricanes were the Gators’ first test, and UF passed. The same can’t be said for last season when Florida dropped its contest against Kentucky at home, marking the first time in 31 years the Gators lost to the Wildcats.