I don\u2019t know what I just saw, but boy, did I like it. For the first time in decades, the Tennessee Volunteers both won in Gainesville and put it in the Florida Gators, charging out to a 31-0 halftime lead and winning 31-11.<\/p>\n
Joey Aguilar was 17\/22 passing for 204 yards and a score, extending his 200+ yard career passing streak to 35 games. DeSean Bishop led Tennessee\u2019s punishing ground game with 24 carries for 116 yards and 2 touchdowns. TE Ethan Davis led all pass catchers with 5 catches for 72 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n
It was a physical domination by Tennessee\u2019s offense. The Vols ran 51 times for 248 yards as a team (4.9 ypc) while throwing just 22 times.<\/p>\n
The Vols set the tone immediately, taking the opening kickoff and methodically driving down the field for a touchdown. Aguilar found Davis in the flat, who cut outside and tiptoed up the sideline for a 23-yard score to open the scoring.<\/p>\n
The Vols\u2019 defense was amazing in the half, and they started with a bang, forcing a three-and-out after Florida\u2019s left tackle was called for a hold that wiped out a 42-yard gain.<\/p>\n
Tennessee would go on to score touchdowns on each of their next two possessions sandwiched around another Florida punt, and Tennessee was in business quickly, up 21-0 early in the second quarter in front of a dead-silent 90,000 fans at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.<\/p>\n
Florida rolled the dice in the second quarter near midfield, with DJ Lagway going for a sneak on fourth-and-one, but Jeremiah Telander stuffed him, and the Vols took over. Three plays later, Star Thomas looked dead to rights, but he broke through and away from defenders for a 52-yard gain to the 1. He punched it in one play later, and at 28-0, the writing was already on the wall in the second quarter. Tennessee tacked on a field goal on the half\u2019s final play, and they took a 31-0 lead into the locker room in what was undoubtedly the best half of Tennessee football I\u2019ve seen in decades.<\/p>\n
The second half slowed considerably. Both teams punted, then Florida went on a long field goal drive before Tennessee went 13 plays to get in field goal range while bleeding a big chunk of the clock. Max Gilbert missed from 50 yards, and Florida would go on their only touchdown drive in the fourth quarter, with Jadan Baugh catching a 33-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s the last time Florida would touch the ball, as the Vols would go on a 13-play, 8+ minute drive to run out the clock inside the Gator red zone.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s an unforgettable night for Tennessee football, with Tennessee winning at the Swamp for the first time since 2003 and beating Florida by 3+ scores for the first time since 1992.<\/p>\n
Up next: a huge game with Vanderbilt next Saturday in Knoxville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t know what I just saw, but boy, did I like it. For the first time in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[143,28,30,29,31749],"class_list":{"0":"post-57704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-tennessee-volunteer-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}