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Rapid Reaction to Florida's 29-21 win over Texas

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Florida Gators wide receiver Dallas Wilson (6) makes a catch for a touchdown against the Texas Longhorns during the second half at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. (Matt Pendleton-Imagn Images)

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Gators snapped a three-game losing streak Saturday with their 29-21 over No. 9 Texas. Dating back to last season, UF has now defeated top 25 teams in its last three SEC games at home.

After the upset, I was joined by Gators Online’s Keith Niebuhr to break it all down. In the video above, we share our rapid reaction to the Florida Gators’ victory over the Longhorns.

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Listen to Rapid Reaction from Florida vs. Texas

Billy Napier on the Gators’ 29-21 win

“I’m going to tell you what, our fans showed up tonight, or today I should say. They showed up and showed out. They were a huge factor in the game. We’re thankful for that. Good SEC football game out there today. I think it came down to the things it typically does. We rushed the ball for 159 yards to their 53. The turnover margin was 2-2. DJ was 180 quarterback rating, played really clean for the most part.

We got off the field three out of 11, and we stayed on the field 7 out of 14 and blocked a punt. Taylor Spierto, who was a walk-on in year one here who’s earned a scholarship was a spark tonight and made a huge play. How about that freshman receiver Dallas Wilson going off and setting about every record that there is for a rookie?

In general, we had four sacks. I thought we limited the run game. Thought we affected the quarterback, covered him pretty good. That’s a good team. They’ve got a lot of resources at Texas, and they’ve put together one heck of a football team.

I would say for me, that’s the football team I thought we had in the very beginning, and we finally kind of put it together there and played all three phases very complementary, all parts of the team really good. We started fast. That was a huge emphasis in the game. Got the crowd into it.

Man, you’ve got to give these kids some credit. I think nowadays in college athletics, maybe there’s a little bit of a black eye about the sport, what it can teach, what locker rooms are like, and I can only speak for ours. I’m not giving up on team. That’s a football team.

I’m humbled to be a part of it. For them to do what they’ve done over the last couple weeks, I think, is to be commended in today’s world. They didn’t blame anybody else. They took ownership, and they went back to work.

It’s been a challenge. You guys know because you write about it every day. But we handled some adversity. This is just the beginning here. We’ve got a lot more games just like that when it gets to really good teams in the future.

We’ve handled adversity, now can we handle a little bit of success. I think that’ll be really important. In general, I’m extremely proud of the staff and the players for the way they held together and the work that was done in the open date.

DJ battled through the injury today. He had a little bit of a leg injury that we’ll know more about, but in general, I thought he was kind of back in that mode that he was in at the end of the year last year where he was playing immobile and for the most part was a great leader, great teammate, and very effective today.

Go Gators.”

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