SEC football: 15 instances where it just meant more

7. LSU beats Florida in Gainesville after Marco Wilson threw a shoe like he was Random Task in Austin Powers. Eaux neaux, baby!

I don’t know if this was the beginning of the end for Dan Mullen in Gainesville, but who throws a shoe, honestly? Marco Wilson sure will! In one of the craziest moments I have ever seen decide a game, Wilson threw an LSU player’s shoe to give the Bayou Bengals a first down. The Tigers would go on to win this one in The Swamp on a 57-yard field goal off the foot of Cade York in heavy fog.

This play in particular, not recruiting well at all and going Darth Gator vs. Mizzou ruined Mullen.

Florida won the SEC East that COVID season, as Georgia was still trying to figure out what it was all about under center in a post-Jake Fromm world. This defeat to a reeling LSU team pretty much ended their hopes of making the College Football Playoff. Ed Orgeron was already on his way out of Baton Rouge even before cleats were chucked at Ben Hill Griffin. Mullen wasn’t that far behind.

There have been other dumb things I have seen watching and covering SEC football throughout my 20s and 30s, but I still struggle to comprehend the hilarity that ensued in the final minutes of a huge cross-divisional rivalry game. The stakes are always higher in games of this magnitude, but I still can’t believe Florida blew this game in this manner. You have to be more locked in than … this…

Florida had a great season that year, but this is one of the plays from it we will always talk about.