For the last nine seasons — essentially since Dan Mullen left for Mississippi State following a championship campaign in 2008 — the Florida Gators have struggled, to one extent or another, on offense.
In 2009, with Tim Tebow at the helm and a slew of other top-shelf players arrayed around him, Florida fell off slightly from its terrifying 2008 form — and also scuffled for the month of October, thanks to Tebow suffering a concussion that led to him missing part of one game and playing uncharacteristically poorly over his next two.
In 2010, without Tebow, Florida scored more than 100 fewer points than it had the year prior, and scored 14 or fewer points in games against Alabama, Mullen’s Mississippi State, South Carolina, and Florida State.