Former longtime Gainesville Sun sportswriter Pat Dooley contributes on a weekly basis to Gators Wire with “Pat Dooley’s Book of Lists,” chronicling his thoughts on the past, present and future of Gators sports. Look for more frequent contributions during football season.
As we know, 2020 was a historically bad Florida defense. I could bore you with stats like Florida giving up the most points per game since the last pandemic (1917) or the Gators dropping 67 spots in the team defense category, but you probably want to tell those stats to shut up. I’ll just tell you the 10 reasons why it will be better in 2021. I promise.