Florida Gators Go Through Looking Glass in Loss to Ole Miss

m Urban Meyer in his postgame press conference basically sum up the game. I am still going to do the analysis pieces, but the whole game can be summed up in that phrase.

It was like a combination of some of the worst parts of 2006 with some of the worst parts of 2007.

They had a third-quarter meltdown, an infamous recurring nightmare of 2006’s run. They also had the offense making mistakes and hoping the defense could bail them out, a storyline taken directly from the script of two seasons ago.

Also, the Gators had critical breakdowns, like Snead’s 86-yard pass, and some bad tackling, like on McCluster’s 40-yard run. The offense basically ended up as the Tebow and Harvin show as well. Those bits are vintage 2007 Gators.

The critical thing from here on out is figuring out this team’s identity. The identity it had tried to forge in the first three games was completely reversed. Bad habits from the past couple seasons reemerged.

All is not lost, since it’s still September and because Georgia was administered a beatdown by Alabama.

Arkansas, Florida’s next opponent, has looked so positively putrid this season that they present a great opportunity to get the house back in order.

Florida came out flat, didn’t do a thing that brought them success in the three games prior, and they only lost by one point (a freak margin at that, considering how few PATs ever get blocked).

It was also to a rapidly improving Ole Miss team, whose new coach, Houston Nutt, always pulls off an upset or two every season.

There are worse ways to take your first loss, and there was enough good in it to build on that the Gators can still accomplish every goal they have for the season.

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