On Friday, I talked about Florida finding a way to reduce this game down to a handful of match-ups. Lowering the margins. And ultimately, the Gators made the handful of plays that they needed to to come away with the win. Florida was one for eight on third down through three quarters of football. They converted three of five in the fourth quarter, scored thirteen points and put the game squarely on Joe Burrow’s hands to win it. And he wasn’t up to the task.
This game wasn’t so much about many big things so much as it was a big collection of little things that added up.