The Gators should have won this game, but perhaps this time, we simply did not have the championship swagger that the Hurricanes displayed.  Brock Berlin made the Gators pay, and Florida simply did not do well down the stretch, where we could not pick up a first down to put the game away, and we had poor clock management under one minute.  We threw to the same guy in the same play, with the same pattern 3 TIMES!!  Can Zook be a little more creative?!

Nevertheless, the Gators did well and proved they will be in contention the rest of the way.  I don't usually do the update on www.fsusucks.com on lost games, but this one for the ages.  I will never forget this one and it helps that I was there in that horrible stadium that should be knocked down.

And the game had many "if we could only get that one back" moments.  We'll never know what might have happened if Florida hadn't given up those two long kickoff returns in the first quarter. We'll never know whether Florida would have extended the lead - if not for all of those penalties - so that it wouldn't have mattered.
We'll never know if Florida might have been able to hold on if Ingle Martin hadn't been sidelined with a concussion.

So in the end, how does the Gator Nation feel?  There are no such things as moral victories with a team like ours and there is no way anyone in the Gator Nation can be happy with its team blowing a 23-point lead in the last 21 minutes.  Frankly, I was angry when I left the stadium.

The one thing we do know ...These Gators are real and they will compete!