JACKSONVILLE —
It wasn’t that long ago. Seems like it was. That’s the way it is in college football where you are only as good as your last game.
It wasn’t that long ago. Seems like it was. That’s the way it is in college football where you are only as good as your last game.
It was so different then. The press conferences were held in ballrooms, not on the 50-yard line of a transformed soccer field like Ohio State’s was Wednesday. The game was the ultimate, the end of a season instead of thrown into the mix on a day full of games.
Florida and Ohio State played for it all at the end of the 2006 season. And just five years later, they find themselves playing a game with more to lose than to gain.
The loser of Monday’s Gator Bowl will have a losing record. It would be Florida’s first since 1979, Ohio State’s first since 1988. And since there are no ties in college football, someone is going home with history made the wrong way.
Ohio State will try to avoid leaving Jacksonville with a scarlet “L”. Florida will try to take the bus ride home without the numbing knowledge of a 2-7 record in its last 9 games.
Got chills yet?
The truth is, these players wouldn’t even be at a bowl this good if not for their brands.
“We don’t see this as a bad bowl game,” said Ohio State tight end Reid Fragel.
After what they’ve been through, a week at the Sawgrass Marriott must seem like winning the lottery.
Still, it’s not what they expected when the season started.
Six-and-six?
Losing record in the conference?
A bowl game with empty seats?"
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