I mean, really, who actually cares in any substantive way that the depleted, disrupted, distracted seventh-ranked Florida Gators got blown out 55-20 by the sixth-ranked Oklahoma Sooners in the Cotton Bowl Wednesday night?
If you ask me, Gator Nation didn’t much care. Dan Mullen and his assistant coaches — undeniably relieved that this pandemic-plagued season is finally over — probably didn’t much care, either. And UF’s players, at least the many of them who opted out and chose not to play in the game, obviously didn’t care at all.
It used to be a New Year’s Six bowl game of this magnitude between two marquee teams actually meant something to the programs involved, but when you combine this COVID-cursed season with the growing trend of star players opting out of bowls, these games have become as pointless as screen doors on a submarine.