Four games into the season, Florida’s offense looked like the reincarnation of The Greatest Show on Turf. It felt like anything Buster Faulkner dialed up worked, and the Gators were scoring points at a rate not seen in years in Gainesville. Early whispers suggested the Gators could match the 2019 LSU Tigers' offense.
Oops.
Four games later, the flaws of this offense have become painfully clear and the once high flying offense has come to a screeching halt.
Florida’s offense has stalled out after a promising start
Florida has managed over 350 yards of offense just once in the last four games after eclipsing at least 400 yards in each of the first four games. Florida’s 252 total yards on Saturday are the fewest of the 2026 campaign and is a total that The Man in the Black Polo failed to reach just five times.
The core of Florida’s issues on Saturday starts with their offensive tackles, Bryce Lovett and Emeka Ugorji, who were outclassed in this game. In turn, even when Florida tried to go deep, there just wasn’t time. And then we saw the familiar pattern where Georgia just loaded the box and shut down anything Florida wanted to do in the run game.
The turnovers were a massive problem, but at the other core of what has been happening is that teams just aren’t fooled by all the eye candy Buster Faulkner is throwing at them. Without the threat of getting beat over the top, teams with speed and power can blow up all the east-west plays that Florida wants to run and are able to beat the Gators to the spot when trying to go outside.
Yes, the loss of Vernell Brown III has been huge, but an offense shouldn’t be hyper-dependent on one wide receiver to work. The Gators still had Dallas Wilson and Eric Singleton Jr. on Saturday, but Wilson was targeted just three times, and Singleton had four catches for a total of 19 yards. Bailey Stockton is doing all that he can, but he isn’t a game-breaker who should be getting the lion's share of the targets.
It’s been quite a flip: Brad White's defense is seemingly improving, while Buster Faulkner's offense is going backward.
These final four games are going to be telling as to whether Faulkner is the real deal or whether we fell for fool’s gold.
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