Missouri’s loss to Florida last year was the most infuriating game - for me, anyway - because the Gators were not good. Barely better than Missouri, to be exact. Having a starting NFL-caliber quarterback helped paper over a lot of offensive deficiencies and the defense was, essentially, less than than mediocre at everything.
In the preview I did this summer one of the things that stood out was the massive number of transfers out and the accompanying transfers in that occurred during the offseason. At the time I said that the move made total sense and, as we saw in Columbia, could absolutely work to have a quick, one year improvement.