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Florida vs. Missouri, Three Takeaways: Dominant defense, dysfunctional offense

There will be other recaps of Florida’s 40-14 win over Missouri, I promise — and this time, there’s no hurricane on the horizon to help break my promise for me.

Florida’s defense is hell on quarterbacks

Here is an insane, absurd, and unfair truth about the 2016 Florida defense: Six quarterbacks have started against Gators, and of them, only one has completed 10 passes or more than 50 percent of his passes.

And those distinctions don’t even belong to the same guy.

Missouri’s Drew Lock didn’t join UMass QB Ross Comis — whose 9-for-17 night is, by one completion, the only night of 50 percent passing by a starting QB against these Gators — or Tennessee’s Joshua Dobbs — who completed 16 passes for 319 yards and four touchdowns against Florida, but needed 32 attempts to do so — in that rarefied air on Saturday.