There is nothing more soul-sucking than a bowl-less football season.
Instead of studying your future opponent, you are forced to watch everyone else play and have those bowl season commercials jammed down your throat like cheese gone bad.
Florida fans may be used to it. This is the third time in the last 11 years it has happened. The only times before that were caused by Florida probation or a lack of bowl game opportunities.
This is the bed that Billy Napier, his staff, his players and everyone else have to sleep in. The sheets aren’t quite as crisp as the luxury hotels that house the bowl teams.
But Florida football fans are looking ahead because that looking back is kind of scary, as if Pennywise, Freddie Krueger and Kirby Smart are all there to scare you.
If we look ahead, we want the truth. OK, maybe we can’t handle the truth, but we would at least like these 12 questions answered between now and the Miami game at the end of next August.