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Yet they scored 42 points in the first half, a record for a Florida opponent. The Bulldogs came to Gainesville with a 4-5 record and ranked fifth in the Southern Conference. Yet somehow last weekend, the Gators found themselves in a rope-a-dope situation against FCS Samford. Misery cloaked in two very different shades of orange, from the Day-Glo draping of Florida's Swamp to the burnt, nay burned out, hues of Texas' DKR Memorial Stadium.įlorida and Texas have combined for seven national championships, 40 conference titles, five Heisman trophies and nearly 1,700 wins, producing nearly 100 consensus All-Americans and earning 103 bowl appearances.Īnd yet this fall, with two weeks remaining in the regular season, they are a combined 9-11, and both will spend their remaining two regular-season games scrambling to achieve the eligibility that would earn them their 104th and 105th bowl berths. We are weary and have no rest." Lamenting indeed. In case you were wondering, the Bible verse referred to earlier is from the Book of Lamentations, chapter 5, verse 5: "Our pursuers are upon our necks. We were gazing through the Bottom 10 looking glass, watching Dan Mullen and Steve Sarkisian crash through that glass like Eddie Murphy in "Beverly Hills Cop." That historically awful road slump suddenly ended in OT, a one-point win celebrated on the turf of the once-proudest of all Big 12 foes, the University of Texas. Then we saw the Kansas game, but we weren't looking at Kansas.

Texas needs answers, the better OSU and more college football takeaways.

First a Florida team that one year ago came within a quarter of winning the SEC championship suddenly became one of those types of teams we are so familiar with, the kind who can't stop a run-of-the-mill FCS offense. Instead, our eyes were drawn elsewhere as last Saturday unfolded like wax paper origami. Or a multi-time Bottom 10 champion such as Kansas, who was ranked at the top/bottom of our standings one week ago, largely because of the Jayhawks' continuing road struggles, a record of 56 consecutive Big 12 losses away from Lawrence. Those mid-major teams who struggle to hold off smaller, weaker FCS opponents. And these days, as the 2021 college football season trudges toward the oasis that is December (or more likely a mirage), there is SO much weary, and thus so little rest to be found.īut for once we aren't focused on the usual Bottom 10 suspects.

Because, as it says in the Good Book, there is no rest for dreary. It is a busy time here at Bottom 10 headquarters.