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OVERTURN OF ROE V. WADE PROVES DIVISIVE
By Heather Bushman
Alligator Staff Writer
The U.S. Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade and tightened abortion restrictions have heightened the importance of reproductive rights in the general election. Students, activists and candidates point to abortion access as a top issue in this election.
Voter registration among women in states like Kansas, Ohio and Pennsylvania surged following the overturn of Roe. Registration among women spiked 16% in Kansas and 6% in Ohio and Pennsylvania, where a Republican majority could enact a total abortion ban if elected, according to a New York Times report.
Florida has seen its own increase, though it’s noticeably smaller at just 2%. Still, Florida Democrats stress reproductive rights in platform points and reasons for voting.
Tika Horigene, a 19-year-old UF economics sophomore, said she’s wary of the implications of the general election, which put access to abortion and reproductive rights at risk. Though she’s routinely engaged in activism, Horigene said it was especially important for her to vote in support of the policy stances she’s taken.
“If I do any type of activism, I always want to make sure I’m doing actions that support it, not just talk,” she said.
Gov. Ron DeSantis hasn’t explicitly outlined plans to tighten abortion restrictions if reelected. Currently, Florida’s abortion ban sits at 15 weeks, which took effect in July. Still, voters like Maria Smarandache, a 21-year-old UF biology junior, worry a stricter abortion landscape is on the horizion.
The overturn of Roe spurred Smarandache to vote with greater urgency — a trend she said she’s seen in other women as well. The gubernatorial pick is especially crucial in this issue, she said.
“I’m already scared of my rights and other women’s rights being taken away,” Smarandache said. “If Ron DeSantis gets reelected, that’s definitely going to happen.”
The gubernatorial election pits two candidates with differing views on abortion access against each other. While DeSantis signed the 15week bill into law and promised to expand anti-abortion provisions following the overturn of Roe, Democratic candidate former Rep. Charlie Crist vowed to sign an executive order securing the right to an abortion if elected.
Direct abortion policy isn’t at stake on the ballot, but candidates will play a key role in shaping future legislation. The partisan makeup of federal and state Congress, which this election could change, may sway the way these bodies propose and vote on future abortion legislation.
The Republican-controlled state House and Senate proposed and passed the 15-week ban, and though the state constitution’s privacy clause safeguards the right to an abortion, Congress can tighten restrictions to it through policy.
The Women’s Health Protection Act, which attempted to secure nationwide abortion access, passed in the Democrat-majority U.S. House but narrowly failed in the U.S. Senate, where 50 Republicans slightly outweigh 48 Democrats and two independents. House Republicans like Rep. Kat Cammack, who represents Florida’s 3rd Congressional District and is up for reelection, voted against the act.
Cammack’s opponent, Democratic candidate Danielle Hawk, has continually cited the right to an abortion as a top issue in her campaign. In a September discussion with Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried, Hawk said securing nationwide abortion access is a matter of personal freedom and healthcare, not a partisan issue.
“We are talking about somebody’s ability to choose without government interference what they are going to do with their own bodies,” Hawk said. “It is not the job of the government to be making those decisions for someone.”
Nelay Govan, a 21-year-old UF economics senior, echoed Hawk’s sentiments regarding individual liberties. Abortion, he said, is a personal decision.
Govan’s voting with immigrant rights and abortion access in mind, he said. The two issues both put personal freedoms and protections at risk — something Govan said he thinks are important to safeguard.
The overturn of Roe v. Wade should’ve never happened, Govan said, and abortion access should be upheld.
“It’s their body, their choice,” he said. “Everybody deserves that basic human right.”
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ers were both shared to FBI agents and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, according to GPD.
That same weekend, Planned Parenthood’s Gainesville office was vandalized, and a note was left behind. GPD can not yet reveal the note’s content because of the active investigation.
Most recently, the National PanHellenic Council Garden, located on the North Lawn near Marston Science Library on UF’s campus, was vandalized for the third time since the garden opened two years ago, with letters removed from four of nine monuments honoring Black fraternities and sororities.
Since the vandalism at the National Pan-Hellenic Council Garden, the council has called upon UF to do more to protect “one of [their] few spaces on campus.”
“The repeated malicious actions towards our Council, a predominantly Black community on campus, and the bare minimum response by the University are unacceptable,” the National Pan-Hellenic Council wrote in a statement posted on its social media Nov. 4.
These incidents are making impacted groups reconsider their idea of Gainesville values, UF Pride Student Union Treasurer Oscar Santiago Perez said.
“There’s this perception that Gainesville is this pretty inclusive, welcoming environment,” they said. “But because of these incidents…we can’t let our guard down.”
Since the Oct. 29 projection of an antisemitic message on the Jacksonville stadium after the FloridaGeorgia game, Rabbi Berl Goldman, director of Lubavitch Chabad UF — a Jewish organization on campus — has received hundreds of texts, emails and phone calls in support of his community.
But a message he received Friday concerned him.
“We’ve received a phone call today and many others from parents and students who are fearful of attending Chabad UF’s Friday night services — something they do each week,” he said.
Goldman insists Gainesville’s Jewish community remains unified and works to teach others about the importance of educating themselves about different cultures.
“The answer to antisemitism hate and bias is education,” he said. “Antisemitism is nurtured. It’s taught, it’s sheared, and the root of it needs to be eradicated from our midst.”
The antisemitic flyers are being investigated as a hate crime, GPD spokesperson Lisa Scott said. As of Sunday afternoon, FDLE hasn’t responded as to whether the antisemitic message at the FloridaGeorgia game or the attack toward the National Pan-Hellenic Council Garden are being investigated by the agency as hate crimes.
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Presidential candidate diversity provides stark contrast to UF’s own student demographics
By Makiya Seminera
Alligator Staff Writer
Nearly two-thirds of more than 700 UF presidential candidates were white or men, according to presidential demographics data obtained by The Alligator.
The demographics data broke down the candidate pool by two factors: whether they were female or an underrepresented minority. However, the data doesn’t provide insight into the group of presidential finalists’ demographics or validate search committee chair Rahul Patel’s claim that more than half of the final group were women or people of color.
Of the 739 presidential candidates listed in UF’s demographic report, 484 were men — making up around 65% of the candidate pool. 62 of those men were people of color.
Thirty two of the male candidates were reported to be Black, according to the data. 10 were Asian, and 20 were Hispanic.
The female candidates — 255 of them, according to the report — were about 85% white. Twenty three of the female candidates were Black, six were Asian and eight were Hispanic, according to the data.
In total, around 13% of candidates were people of color.
The data sheds light on the diversity of candidates just days after the UF Board of Trustees unanimously approved Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, as the 13th UF president.
More than 700 candidates were included in outreach during the recruitment process of the presidential search, according to
Namari Lock // Alligator Staff
The 739 candidates separated by sex and race/ ethnicity. All percentages are approximate.
UF’s initial press release announcing Sen. Ben Sasse as the sole presidential finalist. The demographics data only includes this pool — not the final group of candidates who search committee narrowed down to before ultimately recommending Sasse.
The only information provided about the demographics of that final group of candidates comes from the UF press release — which listed nine of the 12 candidates as sitting presidents at major research universities — and Patel.
More than half of those final candidates were either women or people of color, Patel said in the Nov. 1 Board of Trustees meeting. Every member of that final pool also wouldn’t agree to be a public finalist unless they were the sole finalist, he said.
“If we have a process that requires more than one finalist to be publicly named, or if names of prospects were publicly disclosed,” Patel said, “simply put, we would not have gotten the most qualified applicants.”
The lack of information on the final group beyond what the press release or Patel said can largely be attributed to Senate Bill 520, which has kept personal identifying information of qualified applicants under wraps.
The presidential demographics data provides a stark contrast to UF’s own Fall 2021 student demographics. Around 56% of UF students are women — compared to the 34% of female candidates in the report.
UF’s Black undergraduate population sits at 10%, whereas Black candidates only made up about 7%.
For Asian and Hispanic candidates, the divide was even further. UF’s undergraduate Asian student population sat around 19% in Fall 2021 — 2% of presidential candidates were Asian. Around 3% of candidates were Hispanic, compared to 48% of undergraduates identifying as Hispanic.
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SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS WERE PARTNERS FOR ITS FARM-TO-TABLE DINNER NOV. 5
By Lauren Brensel
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Meg Boria-Meyer’s not a Gainesville native, but she bears a considerable collection of local partnerships. Opus Coffee and Free Grocery Store are just two she’s worked with at her farm, donating produce to the community.
As the founder of the Gainesville Giving Garden, Boria-Meyer added more partnerships to that list Nov. 5 when she hosted the garden’s first farm-to-table benefit dinner. The banquet was at Frog Song Organics — it was the farm crossover of the millenia, raising $2,000 in ticket sales for the garden.
The menu was seasonal and prepared with homegrown ingredients, Boria-Meyer said, hence the name farm-to-table. 40 guests feasted on salad, vegetarian lasagna and autumn cheesecake — all prepared by the head chef of Paramount Grill, a downtown Gainesville restaurant.
“The biggest motivation was driving donations,” Boria-Meyer said. “And then also just helping our community to more deeply connect with fresh food as an organization that really believes that eating local is the ideal.”
All proceeds were funneled into the garden, a quarter-acre plot of land located at 225 NW 12th Ave. It’s a volunteer operation; Boria-Meyer, 28, has a job at Project YouthBuild, a local leadership program for low-income youth. She, along with a team of three, started the garden in May 2021, pulling pavement and adding soil beds in the formerly abandoned parking lot they leased.
“The land was available,” BoriaMeyer said, “and we were up for the challenge.”
At first, the team partnered with Family Promise of Gainesville to feed households transitioning from homelessness, said Lauren Hyden, the garden’s director of public health nutrition. But the produce overwhelmed the families, she said, because some of their crops like tatsoi and mizuna aren’t normally found in local grocery stores.
Hyden, 30, and the garden’s interns assembled recipe cards so people could learn how to prepare the produce into homecooked meals. But it still didn’t help.
“We no longer partner with that organization,” Hyden said. “Those families weren’t quite ready to receive fresh vegetables — they had so many other things going on in life.”
Now, the garden supplies produce to local organizations Free Grocery Store and Farm to Neighbor for them to distribute to Gainesville families.
“We’re really about wanting to partner with organizations who have already connected with those families,” Hyden said. “We don’t need to duplicate that — we’d rather just support what already exists.”
Since October 2021, the team has produced about 400 pounds of vegetables. But it hasn’t done it alone, Boria-Meyer said.
The garden is serviced by 20 to 50 volunteers every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Volunteers weed, plant and harvest after engaging in an introductory circle where they share their pronouns and the best part of their week.
Volunteer days are busier when there are student groups present, said Claire Layton, a 23-year-old data management analyst at the UF Health Integrated Data Repository.
That’s how she, too, got involved with the garden. She initially volunteered in November 2021 alongside her service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega. Unlike some volunteers, Layton, who was then a UF statistics senior, had no experience in farming, she said.
After graduating from UF, she said, she was hoping to meet new people — preferably, non-college students. So, on her free Sundays, she’d return to the garden.
“The great thing is a lot of the community that comes out there [are] people that live in the area,” Layton said. “People who are likeminded and care about the cause.”
The cause in question, she said, is food accessibility.
In Alachua County, 12.4% of residents experienced food insecurity in 2020, according to data from Feeding America, a nonprofit that partners with U.S. food banks. This figure decreased since 2015, but it was still higher than the rate of all Florida residents — 10.6% — who experienced food insecurity that year.
There are also 11 food deserts — or low-income areas with minimal access to grocery stores — in Gainesville, according to a 2021 report that used data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. People living in food deserts have fewer options for cheap, healthy ingredients, which can lead to obesity, diabetes and chronic illness.
“We hear about the wealth gap,” Boria-Meyer said. “Really, oftentimes, that equates to a health gap.”
President Joe Biden addressed national concern over food and nutri-
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Volunteers tend to the Gainesville Giving Garden.
tion Sept. 28 in a White House conference — the first dedicated to diet in 53 years. A goal he outlined during the conference was to end hunger and reduce diet-related diseases in the nation by 2030.
One way Biden intends to do so, he said, is by calling on Congress to expand monthly child tax credits because of how they flattened poverty rates before expiring in December.
Programs like the child tax credits were long overdue, Nick Blumenthal said, a 20-year-old UF nutritional sciences junior.
Blumenthal was invited to the White House conference because of his experience in the field. He’s witnessed both local and international food systems as an intern at the garden and during his summer trip to Wales on a Fulbright grant, he said.
At the conference, Blumenthal said, he met nonprofit leaders and government officials alike.
“It was a celebration of a starting point to move forward with what the next major wave of transformative policies will be,” he said.
At the garden, he said, it’s the partnerships that promote progress.
Healing House of Alachua, a business that promotes natural medicine, will offer its services Nov. 13 at Opus Coffee-Airstream, where all proceeds will go toward the garden and two organizations Working Food and Grow Hub.
Proceeds and donations from the public allow the farm to continue supporting its mission of delivering fresh food to families in need, BoriaMeyer said.
“We just felt like ‘Well, let’s just do what we can, and that’s something,’” she said. “It’s just a little dent in a really, really big problem.”
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Editorial Dear Ben Sasse,
Hi — we’re The Independent Florida Alligator. You may have seen our continuous coverage of your time as presidential finalist, but we haven’t formally met yet. Not to say we haven’t tried — phone calls, emails, you name it.
But now that you’re wrapping up your presidential selection process, there’s no better time to chat.
A lot of students, faculty and staff have questions about your presidency, Mr. Sasse. How do you plan to put your politics aside, and how do you plan to represent and protect our community’s minority groups?
As our campus’ eyes and ears, it’s on The Alligator to ask those questions. And no, unlike your forums, they can’t be vetted beforehand.
We’re requesting an interview with you, Mr. Sasse. You can name the place and time, and we’ll be there ready to ask the questions — even the difficult ones. We have no allegiance to campus leadership and will continue to cover your presidency and hold you accountable.
You’ve had no media availability since the beginning of your public candidacy. We hope you see speaking with us as an obligation rather than a nuisance.
Because the reality is: Students deserve to hear from you. Not in a controlled, manicured environment alongside Mori Hosseini. That wasn’t a true interview — what your newfound UF community deserves is a sit-down with their trusted news outlet.
President Kent Fuchs has granted us this courtesy on numerous occasions. But most recently, he agreed to answer any and all questions in an on-camera interview he had no editorial control over.
The interview was more than an hour long, where he navigated questions on academic freedom, COVID-19, Richard Spencer and even your potential presidency. We didn’t enter the interview with the goal of writing a puff piece, but Fuchs and The Alligator both knew how important the interview would be to the UF community.
Today, we’re asking for you to give us the same courtesy.
Help our students, faculty and staff understand where you fall on the important issues.
We know you understand the power of the media. The Alligator has succeeded in sparking conversation across the country about your candidacy thanks to our hardworking student-run staff.
When you came to campus, the country’s eyes were watching as protesters made it clear they felt you weren’t welcome.
If you’re truly committed to climbing the “hill of trust” Student Body President Lauren Lemasters thinks you will, take this important step.
We’ll be waiting.
Regards, The Alligator
Alan Halaly // Alligator Staff
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, claps for President Kent Fuchs at the start of his interview with the Board of Trustees, where trustees approved Sasse as the 13th president.
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Column Where’s the Outrage?
Iam a UF alumnus. When I was a freshman, every university across the country was embroiled in protests of the Vietnam War. Students were demonstrating and marching almost daily. They had a powerful voice and used their collecStuart Floyd opinions@alligator.org tive power to affect change. Today, I only see alarming apathy. I don’t see the spirited rebellion for truth, justice and humanity on UF’s campus or any other. While I truly believe democracy is in peril — and I will do my part to defend it — this is really not my fight any longer. It’s yours!
It’s put up or shut up time. The outcome of the upcoming midterm elections is critical. Your vote might be the most important of your lifetime.
What’s at stake? For starters, student loan forgiveness, promoted by President Joe Biden but being challenged in court and on the chopping block if Republicans regain control of Congress. Reproductive rights — not just reasonable limitations on abortions but even contraceptives — could be at risk as suggested by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Forcing a 10-year-old rape victim to give birth or preventing a pregnant woman with complications from obtaining needed treatment to save her life because the government set arbitrary time frames on abortion isn’t pro-life; it’s Republican governmental overreach.
Who you can love, marry and even the essence of your gender identity are at stake; so, yes, civil rights and LGBTQ rights are on the ballot. What you can read and what’s taught in schools and universities is at risk. DACA rights for students born here but not yet citizens will vanish. Climate change legislation will likely be revoked, along with funding for infrastructure — which is designed to create millions of new jobs for college graduates in the areas of architecture and construction, as well as incentives for domestic manufacturing, technology, computer science, broadband and renewable energy expansion.
Even the actual integrity of our elections would change. Legislative measures specifically designed to fight inflation and keep healthcare premiums and medications affordable would be eliminated. Under Republican control, the wealthy will get wealthier and corporations will continue to evade taxation. Gun proliferation, especially in public, will expand exponentially. Your apathy could result in the legitimization of hate, bigotry, fear and discrimination. Worst of all, Republicans will feel energized to continue to deny fair election results with corrupt measures to influence state legislatures and the Electoral College with unsupported lies.
The rights and benefits most important to your generation are just a vote away. If you don’t vote, don’t complain about the outcome.
Stuart Floyd is a UF alumnus.
The views expressed here are not necessarily those of The Alligator.
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ATHLETICS Sasse’s influence drew varied response from former members of Midland athletics
AT MIDLAND, SASSE EMPHASIZED SPORTS
By Kyle Bumpers
Sports Writer
Ben Sasse drew mixed opinions in his handling of sports programs at Midland University.
Sasse added sports programs, made a controversial hire and invested in Midland athletics. While outside eyes recognized his effort, reactions were divisive among those at Midland regarding their support of his decisions.
When Sasse first took over in December 2010, Midland was struggling to stay afloat, then-women’s basketball coach Joanne Bracker said. With Sasse’s arrival, Bracker said coaches hoped he would be the one to resurrect Midland.
By Fall 2014, Midland tallied its highest enrollment at the time with 1,362 students, consisting of about 700 student athletes. After adding 11 varsity sports since 2009, Midland currently has 33 varsity programs.
Bracker was an academic advisor and physical education professor at Midland until her retirement in 2017. She was the head women’s basketball coach from the program’s inception until she retired from coaching in 2012.
It was nice for athletes to have opportunities to compete because they might not have been able to play elsewhere, she said. However, Bracker felt there were many drawbacks, like problems with scholarship money, attendance and team size. She called the scholarships some athletes received limited.
Because student-athletes drove to road matches instead of flying like some Division I schools, she said they would miss class for extended periods of time. Bracker felt forced to accept the fact students would have to miss as many classes as needed due to their transportation, she added.
She was told she needed to have 35 players on the women’s basketball team, which she said she felt was an unrealistic requirement. UF’s current women's basketball roster sits at 15 athletes.
Some coaches fought to offer a quality program despite these hurdles, Bracker said. She tried to go out of her way to improve the experience for her players and give them opportunities not commonplace for schools as small as Midland.
“I've always been about quality,” Bracker said. “And I want to give that student the best opportunity.”
Sasse grew Midland’s athletics by offering scholarships to student athletes at Dana College, which was closed and absorbed into Midland.
Midland approved a plan to invest $1.6 million in Memorial Field, its multi-sport venue, ahead of the 2014 football season.
Matt Fritsche took over for Bracker as the head women’s basketball coach following her retirement. His one, and only, year in the position came during the 2012-2013 season. While he had communicated with the athletic director at the time, Jason Dannelly, Fritsche said his own hire was mostly decided by Sasse.
Fritsche only spent a year at Midland because the university couldn’t afford to pay him as much as he would have liked, he said. He
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took a $20,000 pay cut, he said, in order to coach collegiately.
The former basketball coach said he enjoyed his time working with Sasse and agreed with Sasse’s decision to add more sports to the university.
“He understands, weirdly enough, that activities and athletics are like the other half of education,” Fritsche said.
As a coach at a school with a large student-athlete population, Fritsche agreed with Bracker that class attendance was a hurdle instructors had to work around. At Creighton University — where he previously coached in Nebraska — Fritsche had private jets for team transportation. But Midland could only offer a van and team members’ cars.
“[National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics schools] sports is not super glamorous,” Fritsche said. “It's for kids that love to play and coaches that love to coach.”
Sasse saw three athletic directors during his time as president, but his first hire at the position was the most controversial one he would make.
Jason Dannelly, who served for slightly more than a year, was hired by Sasse in August 2011. Dannelly resigned in November 2012 due to personal reasons. Less than eight months later, he was arrested and later charged with solicitation, pandering and terroristic threats, Dannelly offered a student $300 in exchange for sex and said he would help advise another student through legal trouble for sex. He pleaded no-contest.
Fritsche was hired while Dannelly was still at the school and said he felt “remorseful” for the student-athletes who were affected. Dave Gillespie, Midland’s next athletic director, was the perfect hire to make sure everyone in the department was treated fairly, Fristche said.
He thought Sasse addressed the situation regarding Dannelly immediately and appropriately. The Alligator was unable to find a public comment by Sasse regarding Dannelly’s charges.
As Sasse now turns his attention to UF as the school’s 13th president, he’ll inherit a much larger school and sports program.
Fritsche doesn’t know what Sasse’s plan will be for UF sports upon arrival, but he believes Sasse will try to help both academics and athletics flourish.
“Dr. Sasse is going to look at things more globally than what he probably did at Midland where things were so small,” Fritsche said. @BumpersKyle kbumpers@alligator.org
FOOTBALL Richardson rolls, Gators defense commands second half in win
Florida claims second conference victory against depleted Aggies
By Joseph Henry
Sports Writer
Anthony Richardson looked confident against Texas A&M. His 279 yards accounted for roughly 57% of Florida’s 492 total yards — the third most prolific offensive showing by the Gators this season.
The redshirt sophomore was poised in College Station, Texas, ending the game with his second highest completion percentage of the season — 60.7% — when throwing 20 or more passes. Richardson also totaled four touchdowns on the day, tying his season-high mark.
Two of his best performances of this year have come when UF entered enemy territory; Richardson had career numbers when Florida traveled to Knoxville, Tennessee, in September. The Gators have only played two true road games this season, the difference against Texas A&M being they actually closed out a victory.
Postgame, Richardson said any Southeastern Conference win is a blessing.
“A road win against a tough opponent, it just allows us to come out here and play football and see where we are at,” Richardson said. “We are feeling good, and we are excited.”
Florida now sits one win away from bowl eligibility after its 41-24 win over the Aggies Nov. 5. The getright outing was exactly what the Gators needed following two losses and before hosting South Carolina Saturday. UF’s defense improved on a rocky first half, where it allowed 307 yards and 16 first downs by shutting out the Aggies in the second half.
UF head coach Billy Napier credited the turnaround to the connectivity between his players and their leadership qualities.
“I think we could’ve easily got frustrated with our defensive performance in the first half, but man, in that locker room, you would never know,” Napier said. “It’s really a group that stuck together. They knew exactly what the issues were.”
Redshirt senior linebacker Ventrell Miller addressed how the defense came out “flat-footed” in the first 30 minutes of the game. After halftime, Florida forced five punts and two turnovers while applying constant pressure on Texas A&M quarterback Haynes King.
“Everyone came out and did their job, and we showed them how the Florida Gators defense could play,” Miller said.
One of the biggest question marks prior to the Gators’ trip to the Lone Star State was how they would replace the production of outside linebacker Brenton Cox Jr., who was dismissed from the team Oct. 31. The answer came in the performances of Antwaun Powell-Ryland Jr., who had two tackles for loss, a sack and forced a fumble, and Lloyd Summerall III.
“They knew what was on the line, and I’m proud of how they stepped up,” Miller said.
Early on, Florida struggled to contain Aggies running back Devon Achane. The junior racked up 104 total yards and a career-high three touchdowns in the first half alone.
Achane made plays all over the field, but many of his teammates missed the game against Florida as some Texas A&M players had the flu. ESPN college football senior writer Pete Thamel reported just 27 minutes before the scheduled kickoff time that six Aggies would miss the game due to the illness, and he added four more unavailable due to other injuries.
“Besides the sickness and the guys coming up out, that's neither here nor there,” Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher said after the game. “You got to play with the guys you got and we have plenty [of] good players and we had plenty of opportunities today to do what we needed to do.”
Attention in Gainesville now shifts toward Florida’s final home game of the season against South Carolina. The Gamecocks have won five of their last six games and toppled the SEC’s lowest-ranked team, Vanderbilt, Nov. 5.
South Carolina quarterback Spencer Rattler is in his first year since transfering from Oklahoma, and he’s had a far from perfect season. Rattler has thrown more interceptions (9) than touchdowns (8). The Gamecocks’ offense could provide an opportunity for Florida’s defense to build off its strong second half against Texas A&M.
The Gators, who are given a 70.8% chance to win according to ESPN’s Football Power Index as of Sunday evening, and South Carolina will meet in the Swamp Saturday at 4 p.m. The game from Ben Hill Griffin Stadium will be broadcasted on the SEC Network.
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