As long as Florida keeps making sure its opponents don’t have enough DBs on the field during game-winning TD attempts, the Gators will never lose again

Surprising few onlookers, the Florida Gators rank No. 101 in scoring through four weekends.

They’re 2-1, with the only loss coming to a Michigan team that’s otherwise beaten the rest of its schedule at least as badly. But the post-Tebow Gators tend to have decent records despite all the punting, so this isn’t a surprise either.

What is a surprise: Florida’s two SEC wins have come via clutch offensive plays. A week after that 63-yard game-winner from Feleipe Franks to Tyrie Cleveland against Tennessee, Luke Del Rio hit Freddie Swain in Kentucky’s end zone for the late go-ahead.

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But, as anticipated when the subject is Florida’s offense, there’s a funny part. Both of those game-winning touchdown passes came against defenses that didn’t have enough defensive backs on the field.

Butch Jones said, due to injuries, Tennessee didn’t have enough game-ready DBs to play a dime package, which would’ve given the Vols more speed. The Vols were still sufficiently schemed to stop the play Florida wanted to run (which was definitely not a traditional Hail Mary), but got beat deep.

And Swain was wide open against Kentucky because he was literally not being covered. Due to miscommunication, a Wildcat DB was running off the field at the snap as Mark Stoops flailed to try and call a timeout.

Jokes about Florida’s offense have flourished for almost a decade now, so let’s still take a moment and appreciate the Gators pulling off back-to-back clutch touchdowns, no matter the stipulations. And the fact that the offense did enough to put itself in position to attempt game-winning plays is more than we can say about some Gator attacks in recent memory.