11/02 Florida 20 Dawgs 13
| Hey Dawgs, who is your daddy
baby??? The Dawgs continue to be our bitch by not capitalizing on what I believe is a lucky win for the Gators. While Florida should have been up 24 7 in the first half, the second half was full of mistakes and the Gators survive a good game 20-13. There was no party for Georgia on this night. That privilege belonged once again to Florida, the team that befuddles the Bulldogs like no other. Our tight ends and WRs stepped up the level of play when Taylor Jacobs went down in the first quarter. On a night when the fifth-ranked Bulldogs could have clinched a title, Rex Grossman ruined those plans. The Florida quarterback threw for 339 yards Saturday to help the Gators breathe life back into their on-and-off season with a 20-13 victory. This was a huge win for the program and it positions UF for the SEC east IF UGA loses one more game (of course, we have to win out and have Vandy and the COCKS next). Florida won the game known as the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party for the 12th time in 13 years, this time with Ron Zook as coach. Trailing 13-12 early in the fourth quarter, Grossman led Florida on an 89-yard touchdown drive he called the best Florida has produced this year. He capped it with a perfect 10-yard touchdown lob to Ben Troupe -- a massive junior tight end from -- where else? -- Georgia. Troupe's pretty touchdown catch was a welcome reprieve from a night filled with mistakes and missed opportunities for the Gators. They missed a 27-yard field goal, an extra point, turned the ball over four times and came up empty on three first-half trips inside Georgia's 20. Florida escapes from the former Gator-bowl as with 2:23 left, when receiver Terrence Edwards was wide open at the Florida 30 but dropped a long pass from David Greene that landed right in his hands. Three plays after the drop, on fourth-and-1 from the Florida 42 with 1:50 left, Greene threw high to Tony Milton, who couldn't hang on. Florida regained possession, ran about a minute off the clock, and Georgia's last possession was a desperate scramble that came up well short. With the loss, the Bulldogs need to win their remaining SEC games -- against Ole Miss and Auburn -- to ensure the SEC East title. But after a loss like that, they might be forced to at least confront the possibility that Gators offensive lineman Shannon Snell was right when he predicted Georgia would lose to Florida, and again somewhere down the road. It was great bulletin-board material, and the Gators took care of the part they could control. Grossman surpassed the 300-yard mark for the 15th time as a Gator, tying Shane Matthews for the school record. Kight, who entered only when Jacobs and his backup, Matt Jackson, got injured, finished with nine catches for 115 yards. Perez caught 12 passes for 76 yards. |
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