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For an entire month Jon Sumrall had been warning that the Florida Gators would be exposed somewhere down the road if they didn’t change their ways. Somewhere down the road was Columbia, Missouri, where Saturday afternoon the 8th-ranked Gators (4-1, 2-1 SEC) took one of those leave no place on their body without a bruise beatings at the hands of the 25th-ranked Missouri Tigers (4-1, 1-1 SEC). Just a couple of days prior to this 45-17 mauling at Memorial Stadium one revised
Florida's first loss left a to-do list: block the run, stop the run, talk in the secondary. Homecoming brings a South Carolina team that is reeling even worse.
But make no mistake: What happened in Columbia was worse than a speed bump. It was a public mugging. It was a betrayal of sorts.
The question is: Who betrayed whom?
Eli Drinkwitz spent all week saying tough teams stop the run. Missouri did it Saturday. Now Florida has six days to make sure South Carolina can't do it again.