The task does not get any easier as the Gators travel to Oxford, Mississippi to play an Ole Miss team that seems destined for the college football playoffs and wants revenge for last season’s loss in the Swamp that cost them a chance at the playoffs.

Maybe it’s too much to ask for young men to stay in the fight without their coach. Maybe it was just an anomaly. 

It was a grim night reminiscent of those bad dreams when Florida football was free-falling against Nebraska or Georgia.

Like Sen Everett Dirksen once said about about wretched excess in Washington DC, “A billion here, a billion there — pretty soon you’re talking about real money.”

For the second time in three weeks, the Florida Gators are favored in an SEC matchup as they travel to Lexington to face the Kentucky Wildcats (3-5, 1-5 SEC) on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

This time it went down to the final minutes and they actually led Georgia in the fourth quarter for the first time since Amos Alonzo Stagg was a ball boy.

As If Written By STEVE SPURRIER You give this game a few decades, and it grows its own legends, its own villains, and a few ghosts that never quite leave the grass. I ought to know — I’ve played both the hero and the haunted in this one.

Gonzales, now in his third stint as a Gators coach, has been a part of multiple national championship teams in Gainesville.

Ole Miss took a crucial step forward in the SEC race with last Saturday’s 34-26 win at Oklahoma, powered by Kewan Lacy’s late touchdowns and

Simply saying I don’t like Georgia would be one of the all-time understatements. Saying I hate Georgia is far closer to reality but lacks in

Jimmy Sexton, the ultimate dealmaker, is the puppet-master, orchestrating nearly every move on the board.

LSU has fired head football coach Brian Kelly less than four years after making one of the boldest hires in program …