Miami gave Florida something to think about for the next five years, when this bitter rivalry is resumed.
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Yup, two safeties. Poor Willis Pegeuse.
I watched a good part of this game on YT this morning. If you think our recent OLs were bad, you should go back and watch this game. Our OL last year was much better than the one I saw in this game.
Everybody thinks our OLs were so great in the '80's. They were not. They were mediocre. They did enough to protect the QB and we made up for it with a superior passing attack.
I was at the game.
We never should have a position player doing the snapping. Now we recruit specialist snappers, we no longer have a position player do double duty.
The same OL mediocrity was true of our OL on the great '86 team. It was high-average, not dominating. I remember the announcers for the '86 Pitt game saying that for a team ranked number one or whatever it was, but it was very high) UM did not run the ball very well. That was right after Warren Williams was stuffed. We got stuffed a lot that day.
And one Pitt RB had almost three hundred yards on us. Ironhead Heyward.
As best as I could tell from watching part of the '87 UF game, our OL included Mike Sullivan, Rod Holder, Scott Provin, Matt Patchan, Gary Mahon.
The '86 team also had Gregg Rakoczy at center instead of Holder.
We were not overpowering dominating OLs. Recent OLs have probably run better. We should have had a 1000 yard rusher last year. And I admit last year's line left a lot to be desired.