Funny stuff from David Hale this morning:
In the aftermath, there's an obvious question: Who could possibly stop Georgia now?
It certainly isn't
Florida, which fell to short-handed
LSU 49-42 in a game that is best explained as Dan Mullen trying to spite Tigers boosters who had hoped to fire Ed Orgeron this week.
Mullen likes to play Darth Vader, but this recent stretch of Florida football has exposed him as little more than a Wile E. Coyote. Orgeron painted a tunnel on the side of a mountain, and Mullen ran right into it. He's become the hapless villain more likely to have an anvil fall on his head than to chase down the roadrunner. (Of note,
UTSA remains undefeated, too. Meep, meep.)
LSU lost its star receiver, its top two corners, and Orgeron's crawfish delivery guy wrecked his Honda. The Tigers had no chance to win, but Florida found a way.
Emory Jones and
Anthony Richardson combined for four interceptions. Todd Grantham, a fan favorite in every SEC town but Gainesville, coached a defense that surrendered 321 yards on the ground.
Tyrion Davis-Price ran for 287 and three touchdowns by himself, the most ever against a Florida defense, breaking a record held by Herschel Walker. It takes a special kind of awfulness to let someone break a Herschel Walker record by 50 yards. Richardson did look terrific on the bulk of his offensive drives, but even that story comes with a twist: The Gators' backup QB said after the game he couldn't write off the possibility he'd transfer.
On the plus side, no one threw a shoe.
