The blitz that saddled Florida safety Donovan Stiner with a new nickname—possibly for life—wasn’t as extreme on the page as it wound up being on the field.
“It wasn’t supposed to be eight,” Gators defensive coordinator Todd Grantham says with a chuckle.
But eight Gators did rush Mississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald on fourth-and-10 in Saturday’s fourth quarter as Florida tried to protect a 13–6 lead.

