New coach but same result for Florida football in its Week 10 matchup with No. 5 Georgia. The Gators played well enough to pull off an upset but couldn’t close the deal. They fell, 24–20, to their archrivals before 76,131 fans at EverBank Stadium. In their first game under interim head coach Billy Gonzales, the Gators looked poised to finally flip the script. They took a 20–17 lead with 14:52 left in the fourth quarter on a 54-yard Trey Smack field goal. Georgia, though, answered with a seven-play, 82-yard touchdown drive capped by a 36-yard scoring run from Chauncey Bowens, seizing the lead for good.

Familiar heartbreak

From there, Florida football’s offense failed to score. The Bulldogs’ defense suffocated any hope of a comeback. Despite leading for most of the contest, the Gators co

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