If you are up there, football gods, please don’t ever again make us endure another Florida-Florida State game like this one.
If you are benevolent gods, you will restore the glory and return us to a time when college football in the State of Florida was in the national spotlight and not a national afterthought.
If you are merciful gods, you will spare us the pain and suffering of having to watch these two once-proud programs going mano-a-mano with nothing on the line except a bid to the Gasparilla Bowl. (Hey, Gators, the UCF Knights will be waiting for you and don’t you dare try to duck them this time.