OTHER PICKSFlorida 31, Toledo 14Texas A&M 52, Rice 13Okla. State 41, Miss. State 22Arkansas 27, UL-Lafayette 14Kentucky 26, W. Kentucky 23Missouri 43, Murray State 15Georgia Tech 49, Elon 28Miami 48, Florida Atlantic 13Penn State 30, Syracuse 20Florida State 35, Pittsburgh 16N.C. State 30, La. Tech 23BYU 24, Virginia 20Ohio State 45, Buffalo 14Stanford 46, San Jose St. 7Notre Dame 38, Temple 3Southern Cal 35, Hawaii 21MTSU 42, W. Carolina 9
It’s a good thing football season has arrived for the Florida Gators.
Perhaps they’ll get healthy now.
August was a cruel month for Will Muschamp’s Gators, who are looking to build on last year’s impressive 11-1 regular season that warranted a Sugar Bowl bid. Starting quarterback Jeff Driskel underwent an appendectomy that sidelined him for several preseason practices, and starting tailback Matt Jones developed a viral infection and did not put on pads until earlier this week.
Those were two of the more fortunate.