Sunday Hash: A sunny-side up serving from Florida’s win over Tennessee

This week’s Sunday Hash comes at you after a crazy Saturday of college football, which is to say that it was a typical day of college football. And night. I feel like I watched more overtime than a full season of Bill Maher.

Meanwhile, Florida football stood strong on its home turf on Saturday night, defeating the visiting Tennessee Volunteers, 38-14. Here are my Sunday morning thoughts on the events of the previous evening in the Swamp.

Watching the first half of that Florida-Tennessee game made me think

… what I thought I would think when Josh Heupel got the job, but not what I thought after the first three games of Tennessee football. Josh Heupel teams are going to take their shots, any you have to minimize them. And I don’t think that is a strength of this defense, especially with Todd Grantham’s aggressive approach.

That first drive of the first half was big boy coordinating.

Go take them by the throat, which is what all teams want to do but all offensive minds are capable of doing. That was a surgical drive that kind of made you feel like the game was safe. Look, I thought UT was a bit of a threat. “That was a different looking team than I saw last year,” Dan Mullen said. I agree. The Vols are good enough to beat a team like Florida, but they still need some help.

The big questions after the game were about the health of Anthony Richardson and Kaiir Elam.

Mullen was very positive and it was clear he held Anthony Richardson out because he wasn’t perfect (physically). Good. I want to see Richardson in the Bluegrass against a team that wants him to fail. That should be great theatre.

It is only slightly amazing that Florida has two five-star running backs who rarely see the field.

And I say that knowing that they are very talented. But this is a perfect example of having veteran running backs who know what they are supposed to do is so huge. These three guys may never be in the Fred-Eli-Terry mold, but they are certainly putting up the numbers.

In closing, I feel this season is going to come down to next weekend

… and then a few weekends after that. Kentucky is what Kentucky is. It’s a game Florida could lose. But four games in, I have no doubt Florida is the better team. It’s up to this team to show that. But I do like the idea of playing in Lexington with a healthy Richardson.

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