Well we’ve seen this movie before. Noon start, lightly regarded SEC bottom feeder, coming off an emotional and physically draining win or loss the week before (and losses are worse), on the road…historically speaking, under all coaching staffs, Florida Gators teams don’t usually answer the bell with much energy or focus. Enough to win? Almost every time. Enough to please the fans (or coaches) or keep the fans from having a long day of dyspepsia? No way.
A lot of fans and pundits played that familiar prognostication tune of “poor Vandy” because more often than not, when a power team suffers a painful defeat and faces a much lesser opponent the week after, they take out their frustrations against the unlucky team in the form of a behind-the-woodshed beating.