Bring On The Vols!

The Gators left Florida Field Saturday with a 56-6 victory over the Troy Trojans. It would have been easy to reflect on how the Gators went all Brad Pitt on Troy's Eric Bana ass. Instead, everyone is focused on next Saturday. There's a certain obnoxious coach leading his creamsicle crusaders into the Swamp.

I'll have plenty on that game later in the week. For now, let's reflect on Saturday's victory.

The Gators started out rather slowly. Fumble and miscues had the Gators locked into a 7-3 battle for a quarter and a half. It wouldn't be long, however, until Tebow was raining touchdowns on the hapless Troy defense almost as unmercifully as mother nature unleashed her own fury on the crowd in the literal "Swamp."

Tebow tied his career high of 4 touchdown passes and ran for another before being relieved by John Brantley late in the third quarter. Perhaps the two most impressive Gators on the field outside of Tebow, were Chris Rainey and Mike Pouncey.

Rainey looked more like Earl Campbell on Saturday. He simply did not go down on first contact. Rainey literally constituted the whole Gator offense on one drive early in the third. The drive was capped off by a 3 yard touchdown run.

Mike Pouncey was a beast in his own right on the field. I thought I was sitting a table at the local IHOP on Saturday. I think in the future, Mike should carry some whip cream and jelly dispenser to heap on the defenders after one of his trademark "pancakes." The highlight of the game for Pouncey was probably his mid-air recovery of a Brandon James fumble during the Gators' first drive of the third quarter. I would bet Pouncey has better hands than Deonte Thompson.

The Gators D looked significantly better this week. Troy looked absolutely over matched against the stout Gators defense. The defensive front bounced back nicely from last week's game, in which there were 0 sacks. Three times the Gators knocked Levi Brown on his anoos.

However you want to spin this game, it was still a tune-up for Tennessee. It's a shame the Vols couldn't take care of business against UCLA last week. Now there's no shot of Kiffin making any kind of absurd statements in he days to come.

Here's the stats:

Passing

Tim Tebow 15-24 237 yards 4 tds
John Brantley 10-12 135 yards 1 td


Rushing

Jeff Demps 7 rushes 87 yards 1 td
Chris Rainey 12 rushes 85 yards 1 td
Tim Tebow 13 rushes 71 yards 1 td


Receiving

Riley Cooper 5 recs 82 yards 1 td
Omarius Hines 4 recs 67 yards
Aaron Hernandez 4 recs 39 yards
Cade Holliday 3 recs 66 yards
Brandon James 2 recs 49 yards 1 td
Deonte Thompson 2 recs 39 yards 2 tds
Justin Williams 2 recs 15 yards
David Nelson 2 recs 9 yards
Mike Gillislee 1 rec 6 yards 1 td


Defense


Tackles

Ryan Stamper 5
Ahmad Black 5
Joe Haden 4
Jermaine Cunningham 4


Interceptions

Janoris Jenkins 1


Sacks

Markihe Anderson 1
A.J. Jones 1
Carlos Dunlap 1


Player of the Game


Tim Tebow - G.O.A.T.

Tebow had another god-like performance on Saturday. Tebow's 1 rushing touchdown tied him for third all-time on the SEC rushing touchdown list. His 5 tds total moved him into second place all-time on the SEC list. The 4 passing touchdowns tied his personal career high. Finally, his all around awesomeness ranks him as the greatest thing to hit the college campus since sorority all-white parties.