Florida Football: Confidence meter for all 12 Gator games in 2023
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Florida Football Confidence Meter Week Three: Tennessee
- Last season: Tennessee won 38-33
- HFH Confidence Meter: 45%
Last season, on the road, Florida was less than 40 yards away from outright winning the game. What has also been lost in the shuffle is that Florida football was in control in the first half and had Tennessee backed up to a 3rd and 10 on their own 12, with 1:33 left in the half and a lead in hand, before letting them off the hook.
Tennessee went on to a euphoric season that came crashing down at the hands of South Carolina, the same Gamecocks team the Gators smashed the week before.
Also lost in the praise of the Volunteers last season is that they also had to go to overtime against Pitt early in the season.
So fast forward a year later, and the squads are meeting up in the third game of the season in Gainesville.
At the helm for Tennessee is quarterback Joe Milton. The national media is high on Milton and has put him on the Maxwell Award Watch List, Davey O’Brien Watch List, and the Walter Camp Player of the Year Watch List.
This is redshirt senior Joe Milton we are talking about, who lost his job at Michigan and has already lost his job once at Tennessee.
He is a redshirt senior with 144 career passing attempts.
in 2021, Milton entered the game against Florida, after losing his job in the first place, and went 2 for 8 passing.
Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel is going to conjure things up to make Milton look good, and the Vols will be favored in this game, but we would like to think Florida is going to have a better than a puncher’s chance at pulling the upset.