The term “vibes” got trendy on the Internet a year or two ago and is almost inescapable at this point. It’s to the point that even some of the most staid newspapers in the country are quoting the term “vibecession” in their normally stuffy economic reporting. It can be cloying in its ubiquity, but I suppose it’s one of those things that comes around every so often.
The vibes of the Florida football program have rarely balanced so much on a single game as they do this weekend. The gulf between defeating and losing to Florida State is bigger than the one off of the state’s west coast.