KNOXVILLE – Florida coach Urban Meyer – he of the six straight wins in this series – probably best summed up the Gators’ 31-17 victory over Tennessee at Neyland Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
Said Meyer: “I think you saw two young football teams trying to figure it out out there.”
Of course, his No. 10 Gators are now 3-0 overall and 1-0 in the Southeastern Conference as they seek to find themselves. The Volunteers haven’t been quite so fortunate and are 1-2 and 0-1.
But almost everybody in pale orange from UT coach Derek Dooley on down seemed to find a silver lining in this one after last week’s 48-13 debacle against visiting Oregon.
“We kept swinging,” Dooley said. “We were sitting there in the fourth quarter and it was a seven-point game.”