There’s something especially depressing about looking at the college football landscape in the Sunshine State this season and realizing that USF — yes, that USF — is carrying the torch for our once-proud pigskin peninsula.

Those words don’t even look right on the page. Yet here we are, staring at a world where the Bulls have the state’s strongest College Football Playoff hopes while the three traditional giants of Florida football stumble around like they’ve misplaced the map to relevance.

It’s the kind of revelation that hits you hard — like stepping outside earlier this week on one of those surprising early-winter Florida mornings when a biting breeze catches you off guard. Except this breeze doesn’t invigorate. It doesn’t make me reach for my favorite sweatshirt or remind me tha

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