The Florida Gators skunked the Michigan Wolverines in last Saturday’s Peach Bowl, stamping their 2018 season as a fully successful one by making their first appearance in a New Year’s Six bowl a dominant performance.
And that was just the best part of a 2018 bowl season that delivered nearly endless joys to Florida fans.
Consider what happened to the Gators’ rivals and opponents.
Florida State, thanks to Florida’s other recent beatdown of a 2016 Orange Bowl participant, did not make a bowl for the first time since 1981, when Florida beat FSU by a 35-3 count to end a four-game winning streak for the Seminoles in the rivalry.