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Ole Miss 31, Florida 30. I wrote Friday this was going to happen again, and I wrote this morning that Florida would be dissatisfied after its game with Ole Miss. Granted I didn't think another top-ranked championship contender would lose as a 20-plus-point favorite so soon, or that the Gators would be this dissatisfied. But when both of your projections for the mythical championship game go down to huge underdogs in a span of less than 48 hours, you take what you can get.

Florida was burned both by its well-chronicled weaknesses -- the secondary egregiously missed tackles on Dexter McCluster's tying touchdown run in the third quarter, and missed coverage completely on the 86-yard, Jevan Snead-to-Mike Wallace bomb to go ahead in the fourth -- and by its apparent strengths: everyone in the stadium knew the Tebow Smash was in order on the decisive 4th-and-1 with the game on the line, but that had never stopped Tebow from picking up a crucial yard before. And who misses the tying extra point? Such are the margins between championships and Capital One bowls.

Let's not dance around the insta-zeitgeist here: does a home loss -- only the second under the Urban Meyer administration -- to one of the lesser outfits in the league knock the Gators from mythical championship contention? No more than LSU or Ohio State's losses last year, or Florida's loss to Auburn the year before that, especially with so much time to play. At this rate, there literally won't be enough undefeated teams left if Florida wins out to shut the gates on them (do the math: even if the Big 12 champion emerges unscathed, only Wake Forest or Penn State/Wisconsin is still capable of running the table; a one-loss SEC champion is in it till the bitter end). The key there is "if Florida runs the table," which its defensive effort today renders implausible, to say the least.

So one game at a time, then. This one will make the Gators pariahs, briefly, until another big name goes down (it shouldn't take long, maybe not even until the end of the day), and raise Ole Miss' profile immensely (and, by association, Rebel-conquering Wake Forest's as well, if there's any justice or perspective ... uh, don't hold your breath). Maybe someone will remember the Rebels' 3-21 SEC record under Ed Orgeron and actually write that Houston Nutt is a good coach, worthy of admiration and respect in a conference fllled with highly-paid sideline superstars, and not just kind of crazy. Again, though, don't hold your breath.

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Photo of victorious Jevan Snead via the Associated Press.