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Florida on UPSET ALERT at Vandy after truly bonkers first half

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The 9-point-favorite Gators trailed by 8 after a bonkers first half, but they took the lead in the second.

Vanderbilt has Florida on a bona-fide UPSET ALERT on Saturday in Nashville. The Gators trailed 21-13 at halftime against an SEC East opponent they’ve usually used as a doormat.

The Gators stormed back to take a 27-21 lead just after the start of the fourth quarter.

Florida entered Saturday on a four-game winning streak against Vandy, but that doesn’t nearly tell the story of how dominant UF’s been in the series. The Gators have won 26 of their last 27 against the Commodores going back to the start of that run in 1989.

You can watch on ESPN, and we’ll update this post as the game comes toward a finish.

Just the first half of this game included enough weirdness to tide over the entire SEC for the rest of 2018 and maybe into 2019.

The rundown, in chronological order:

  • Vanderbilt’s Joejuan Williams intercepted a Feleipe Franks pass at the Vanderbilt 2-yard line, where the Vandy DB was clearly down. That didn’t stop him from getting up and running 98 yards for an apparent touchdown, before a video review overturned the TD call on the field:

Williams’ commitment to the bit was laudable anyway.

  • This completely absurd fumble sequence happened:

The end result of that: Florida losing possession after a Franks fumble and a miniature game of soccer involving both teams, a momentary ruling by the refs that the Dores didn’t recover the loose ball in bounds, and a whole lot of confusion.

  • The teams had a big dustup on the field, which included Dan Mullen and Derek Mason screaming at each other, while UF defensive coordinator Todd Grantham piled on ...

... and the two teams’ sidelines got progressively closer to each other:

Both entire benches got unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, and a second unsportsmanlike foul on Florida linebacker Vosean Joseph led to his ejection.

The Gators also lost linebacker James Houston IV to a targeting penalty after he laid a crack-back block that started the whole thing. Mullen was furious on his way to the locker room and blamed the game’s officials for letting things spiral out of control:

Again: that was all in the first half. It even broke ESPN:

Understandable, given the circumstances.

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