COLUMBIA — A look at South Carolina’s 2016 football opponents continues with Florida, which proved defense can indeed win championships, given that’s all the Gators had working for them in their run to the SEC East title a year ago.
That was enough for Jim McElwain to make a splash in his first season in Gainesville, leaning on a defense built by former coach Will Muschamp which proved the difference in a number of close, low-scoring victories that sent the Gators to Atlanta. Now Coach Mac ramps up the effort to build the kind of offense that became his trademark at Colorado State.