This piece is not about Billy Napier, Urban Meyer, Steve Spurrier, or any other single person. It’s about college football in general and how to contextualize where Florida’s been of late and what the future may hold.
I’ve been thinking of the big picture across decades after working my way through the Split Zone Duo podcast’s Dead Letters episode about Nebraska. Dead Letters is a recurring offseason miniseries they started doing for their paying members about programs that either were once great or could’ve been great but ended up far from the mountaintop. They recently ran 2022’s episode about the Huskers in their public feed to promote the new season of it, so the link above is the whole NU episode for free.