The scene on Saturday night in the visitor’s locker room at Neyland Stadium might have been what you would expect, maybe more than you would.
“It just wasn’t a loss. It looked like we lost the national championship,” Austin Appleby said. “That’s what it felt like. It hurt.”
Jim McElwain has lost five games at Florida, including last Saturday to Tennessee, but he’s never seen a locker room like that at Florida.
“The mood in the locker room, there were a lot, a lot, of hurt guys. I’m not sure a couple of the losses last year I could feel that sense of hurt,” he said.