Our first two possessions, had they not stalled, would have buried them and they wouldn't have been in the game at all.
The flip-side of that is that Florida got all the way inside our 30 before we got a stop on 4th & 2 on the first possession, then they missed a field goal on their second possession. We could've very easily been up 14-0 and it would've been lights out, but it could just as easily have been 14-10 or even 14-14.
Florida was very aggressive on both sides of the ball. They were playing like an 11-point underdog has to play to get a win on the road. I thought at times we were playing not to lose; too conservative, particularly on defense. We nearly got ourselves beat in the end when we went ultra-conservative. I'm not saying you just keep the pedal to the metal when you're up 38-27 and it's late in the game, but what I am saying is that Florida didn't have a prayer of stopping our offense...and we were struggling mightily to stop their defense. When Heupel went for it on 4th down rather than kick the field goal, he was saying either he was confident that our defense could stop them, or they didn't have time to complete the comeback if we didn't give them the opportunity to block a FG attempt and return it for a touchdown. I'm not sure why he'd think the former to be true, and we almost proved the latter to be untrue.
I love what Heupel is doing with this program. But IMO he has to develop a killer instinct that so far he just hasn't demonstrated. It has nearly cost us a game we won more than once.
