Florida didn't choke. Their luck ran out and UGA completely smothered their offense. Without big plays and turnovers, Florida has a tough time scoring.
How can being in the SECCG against arguably the best team in the country till the last sequence with a chance to win be considered choking in any way?
If UGA had made it to the title game, I was having a hard time of thinking of a team that made a quieter run in to the NC game.
And it really wasn't even their fault. They can't control the schedule or the fact that Tennessee, Missouri, Auburn, Kentucky and Ga Tech were no good. One reason I never could buy into their momentum at the end of the year and their "improved defense" though was that after they faced us at the end of September, they never really played another decent offense.
This is great. Chuck Oliver asks a passive aggressive question in the postgame presser and Mark Richt calls him on it. You'd think somebody proclaiming themselves the King of College Football would at least be gutsy enough to not have to use a straw man question when he's being "controversial". What on earth did he expect to get out of a coach a few minutes after a defeat like that?
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