This has been the most bizarre game week in recent Florida football history. Between Dan Mullen’s decision to not allow defensive coordinator Todd Grantham or his players to speak with the media this week, his heavily criticized remark about recruiting, his terse Monday press conference that only lasted 12 minutes and the slew of critical articles that have been written by national media, very little has actually been said about the Gators’ game at South Carolina this week.
But this is a big game for the program’s trajectory under Mullen. The Gamecocks (4-4, 1-4 SEC) struggled to beat East Carolina, Troy and Vanderbilt.