I thought Phillips played fine other than leaving his feet to deflect a fake pass from AR after he was 5 yards past the LOS. Fillinger on the other hand… Wow. Between biting on every fake handoff, and dropping an INT that hit him in the hands, I’m going to go ahead and say that was his worst game as a Ute.
Sure, but it wasn’t the time for moral victories. In the rose bowl that was good enough, against a really goot Ohio state that was good enough. Against a Middling new-coach florida, no. That won’t cut it.
I think this loss hurts a lot more because I unintentionally bought into the preseason hype. If I had really thought that the preseason rankings were worthless, like I told myself over and over they were, I think this would just feel like a regular loss.