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Opinion: Florida's win over Auburn just first challenge in unforgiving SEC gauntlet

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SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports' Paul Myerberg provides his opinion of the top three programs in the history of college football. USA TODAY

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Consider what it must have been like for Lamical Perine and his Florida running back friends Saturday. All game long, they kept slamming into a wall. No room to run. Sometimes, it probably seemed against those monstrous Auburn defenders, nowhere to hide.

And then, suddenly opportunity opened wide. It was getting late and Florida was clinging to a slim lead when Perine bounded through a rare hole.