Patrick Durkin

Obviously, the kicks came up clutch.

Um, you know, they don't, they don't win this game without those two field goals by Patrick Durkin.

But yeah, man, like, um, you know, tough outing for Kanye Clark with the blunder on the, on the trying to down the punt inside the one.

Then he's the guy that misses the tackle on the punt return.

That was the winning play, that and the run.

So, you know, Patrick Durkin made two field goals today, and that was the difference, too.

So...

The little things, just continuing to refine the little things, but Florida has officially surpassed its win total from last season.

Talking to Graham Hall of Swamp247.com, the Florida Gators site on the preeminent 24-7 sports network.

Graham, what about special teams? I see Patrick Durkin, 9 of 10 on field goals.

He's booted a lot of 40 and even a 50-yarder.

This season, Texas's special teams will try to help you win the game.

They are allowing touchdowns to the opponent in each of the last two games.

Size up the Gators special teams for us.

Yeah, Florida brought over a pair of specialists from Tulane with John Summerall and special teams coordinator Jonathan Galante in Patrick Durkin and Alec Clark.

Alec Clark had started his career at Marshall with Galante and then came over to Tulane and now is in Gainesville.

So apologies.

Uh, now the, uh, uh, Florida's got a very good kicker in Patrick Durkin.

He's nine of 10 field goals, long of 53, 31 of 31 on extra points.

Uh, Gianni Spetic had his first miss last week.

so there's so much for Florida that went wrong in this contest, and that's before even getting into the special teams where they weren't able to generate explosives without Burnell Brown and then missed their first field goal of the season.

I'm not saying that was a reason that they lost, but you have a chance to cut it to four points going into halftime, and what's an extended break where you can recalibrate, feel a little bit good, and Patrick Durkin misses his first field goal.

I mean, it was an abject failure in all three phases of the game here, and defensively, John Summerall was quite blunt, which we phrased him for in the aftermath of the game, but he said that they've experimented and used every single cornerback on this roster that can play.

And the guys who are playing right now in Javari Flowers and Ben Hanks and Laganza Hayward and obviously Bryce Thornton and DJ Coleman and Kermani McLean.