A year ago, a Florida team under the weather due to one of those always-bothersome flu bug went up to Columbia, South Carolina and got its ass kicked by the Gamecocks.
Consider the favor repaid — and then some.
Florida rolled up 374 rushing yards and got its best defensive performance in some time in its 38-6 destruction of South Carolina on Saturday, securing bowl eligibility in a game that had plenty of time for Senior Day sentimentality.
The Gators nearly had three 100-yard rushers for just the second time in school history, with Montrell Johnson (161 yards, one touchdown), Trevor Etienne (100 yards, most of them on an 85-yard bolt to paydirt), and Anthony Richardson all over the century mark at one juncture, but a late sack left Richardson with “just” 96 to go with a score of his own.