The Florida Gators Somehow Gave Up A Touchdown To Vandy’s Long Snapper And Their Fans Have Finally Lost Hope

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Billy Napier’s first year as the head coach of the Florida Gators has been up and down. Gators fans were calling for Napier’s head before he even coached a game in Gainesville. And past comments by the former Louisiana-Lafayette head coach gave Florida fans plenty of reasons for concern.

Those concerns have only magnified since the beginning of the season. Florida began the year with a massive home win over top-10-ranked Utah. But Gators’ star quarterback Anthony Richardson has developed as some fans hoped, while rivals Georgia and Tennessee reign supreme atop the SEC East.

Florida now finds itself at 6-4 entering the final weeks of the regular season. And while the Gators’ recruiting has finally kicked into high gear, fans still aren’t happy with the product on the field.

That dissatisfaction won’t change at all following what’s been a catastrophic showing for Florida against SEC bottom-dwellers Vanderbilt.

Florida Fans Are Melting Down After Gators Allow Touchdown To Vandy Long Snapper

To be fair to the Commodores, they’ve taken a big step forward in the second season under head coach Clark Lea. Lea went 2-10 in his first season and the ‘Dores have already doubled that win total with two games yet to play.

But Vandy is still 1-5 in the SEC and one of the conference’s worst programs. So you can imagine the thoughts running through Florida fans’ heads when this happened…

That’s Vanderbilt LONG SNAPPER Wesley Schelling getting all the way downfield to recover a muffed punt in the end zone for a touchdown. The improbable touchdown put the Commodores ahead of the Gators 14-6. They’d take that same lead into the halftime break and Florida fans had finally seen enough.

Richardson led the Gators on an 11-play, 75-yard touchdown drive out of the break to cut the lead to 14-12. But that likely won’t be much consolation for fans who expectation at national championship caliber program.