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Three things we learned from Florida’s first loss

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After being rocked at Rocky Top, the Florida football team left its somber locker room and jumped on the team plane back to Gainesville. Every player re-watched the 38-28 loss to Tennessee on his iPad during the flight, in disbelief that they had let an 18-point halftime lead morph into a 10-point loss. After a day to process what happened, here are three things we learned from coach Jim McElwain’s press conference on Monday.

Luke Del Rio is still the team’s leader:

After Florida experienced its worst collapse in recent memory, it wasn’t quarterback Austin Appleby who spoke to the team in the locker room after the game.