Florida football: 5 takeaways from the Gators win at South Carolina

4. The offense seemed to click better too

You would think that, in the middle of a tropical storm, Florida football would just pound the ball on the ground.

Nope.

Not even close.

The Gators managed just 154 yards on the ground — 87 of that coming from Dameon Pierce (we’ll get to him in a sec).

So, that meant it was back to the bread and butter of the passing game.

Trask and Co. didn’t disappoint. The redshirt junior hit eight different receivers — including running backs Lamical Perine and Malik Davis — and four different receivers scored touchdowns.

While Jacob Copeland led the way with 89 yards and a touchdown, Trask’s ability to spread the field and use different receivers at any given time helped throw off a South Carolina secondary that had made life a little more difficult in the first half.

Florida had just 162 yards of total offense in the first half and gave up a sack while going just 3-for-8 on third-down conversions.

“It was a sloppy first half for us,” Mullen said, in his postgame news conference. “It wasn’t just ‘oh, okay we did block or this or that,’ it was guys going the wrong direction and giving the wrong signals.”

The Florida football offense ended the game with 354 yards of total offense — so that means they had more than doubled their offensive production in the second half.