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The Tailgate’s Pat Dooley hands out grades after Florida’s 52-35 loss to LSU in Baton Rouge on Saturday night. OFFENSE B- First half: The offense came out looking great and then got a couple of big penalties against LSU to drive for a second score. Graham Mertz only had two …

The Back Nine comes at you after a bachelor’s weekend with my wife at Bravo-con. So, what did I do? Watched football and ate chicken wings that my in-laws brought up from the Thirsty Turtle in Jupiter. They lived up to the anticipation.  10. I have been thinking about the …

The Tailgates’ Pat Dooley Grades the Gators after their 39-36 OT loss to Arkansas in The Swamp on Saturday: OFFENSE: C- First half: Florida stayed pretty much with short passes and struggled again to get the running game going and protect Graham Mertz. The last drive to get a field …

The Back Nine comes at you after a beautiful weekend unless you care about the Florida football team, in which case you can’t believe the sun bothered to come up.  10. I think one of the biggest problems Florida fans are realizing in their most sober of moments is that …

The Tailgates’ Pat Dooley grades the Gators after their 43-20 loss to Georgia in Jacksonville on Saturday: OFFENSE C- First half: That first drive was something. Really well executed. After that, not much. The fourth-down call was something that will be dissected for a year, but the biggest issue was …

The Back Nine comes at you after an incredible trip to Washington, D.C, where I learned all of the stuff I should have known after minoring in history at Florida. 10. We were there because my wife’s father was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery (he passed 22 months …

The Back Nine comes at you with what brain cells are left after a great weekend that included the rarest of sights – the Gators celebrating a road win.  10. There was a point Saturday with Florida down 10 and nine minutes to go where I was trying to figure …

The Tailgates’ Pat Dooley Grades the Gators after their 41-39 win Saturday against South Carolina in Columbia, S.C.: OFFENSE A+ First half: The Gators came out firing and kept it going throughout the half with 293 total yards. Florida scored on all but one possession and Graham Mertz threw for …

The Back Nine comes at you after waking up to the first hint of fall. Our three-day winter could be right around the corner.  10. The team Florida beat in The Swamp on Saturday was not good. It was not even as good as the team that beat Florida in …

The Tailgate’s Pat Dooley grades the Gators after their 38-14 win Saturday over Vanderbilt in The Swamp: OFFENSE B+ First half: Florida was able to be balanced and had three nice drives to take the halftime lead. There were a few boos when Florida threw a screen pass on third-and-23, …