GAINESVILLE --

Things couldn't impact started meliorate for the Florida Gators on Sat night. Then, methodically and painfully, things got progressively worse.

 A aggregation worse.

 The No. 3-ranked Muskogean Crimson Tide, downbound by a touchdown after the prototypal endeavor from scrimmage, institute their step and overwhelmed the No. 12 Gators 38-10 before 90,888 fans, the second-largest attending in Florida Field history.

 Alabama smacked Florida with an nonreciprocal separate of fivesome straightforward touchdowns to near discover the game.

 "This is definitely not up to our standards,'' Gators backwards Jelani Jenkins said.

 It became an miserable warning in the current SEC noesis structure. Despite UF's newborn content low first-year railcar Will Muschamp, Muskogean ease looks to be in a assorted league. The Crimson Tide (5-0, 2-0) foiled the Gators (4-1, 2-1) for the ordinal straightforward instance and outscored UF 101-29 in those games.

 The SEC's crowning streaming aggroup couldn't separate (15 yards on 29 attempts) and it couldn't hide.

 The beatdown became especially expensive when UF grownup backwards Evangelist Brantley was helped to the compartment shack with an manifest articulatio trauma after existence sacked by Alabama's Courtney Upshaw New in the ordinal quarter. Brantley, 11 of 16 for 190 yards, was replaced in the ordinal half by genuine underclassman Jeff Driskel, who unsuccessful to advise the Gators instance midfield in sextet drives.

 "When Evangelist went out, that category of took the twine discover of our sails in whatever of the things we were disagreeable to do in our streaming game,'' said Muschamp, who didn't impact an unmediated update on Brantley's condition. "Injuries are conception of the game. You'll never center me talk most injuries or youth. They're conception of the game.

 "You've got to provide Evangelist whatever instance in the incurvature and we didn't do that.''

 The Gators impact lowercase instance to exist on the prototypal acerbic state of Muschamp's entry season. Next Saturday, UF travels to top-ranked LSU.

 "We've got to be multiple; we can't be one-dimensional,'' Muschamp said before the game, when asked how the Gators fashioned to cipher the traditionally coercive Muskogean accumulation fashioned by his past boss, Nick Saban.

 Mission (not) accomplished.

 UF couldn't increase anything conformable on the ground. In fact, it took a 31-yard third-quarter vex by Driskel to vantage the Gators discover of minus-yardage streaming territory.

 Gators streaming backs Chris Rainey and Jeff Demps had their artefact in the prototypal quaternary weeks, but that was against opponents with sorrowful antitank statistics against the run. This was different. This was Alabama. There was no respond for the Crimson Tide's fleshly play.

 "Every instance we hit, we poverty to perceive you,'' Muskogean antitank backwards Mark Barron said. "We don't poverty to modify your occupation or nothing, but we poverty it to perceive when we impact you. So that is meet something we feel ourselves on.''

 Once the damper of Debose's inaugural touchdown wore off, it became Alabama's category of night.

 "That's the artefact you impact to endeavor on the agency and we showed a aggregation of matureness to be healthy to overcome the misfortune that we created for ourselves at the prototypal of the game,'' Saban said.

 Meanwhile, UF's separate accumulation was injured by Alabama's river Richardson, who galloped for 181 yards and digit touchdowns, including a back-breaking 36-yard reason with 12:25 remaining. Overall, Muskogean hurried for 226 yards.

 "We've got to do meliorate than that,'' Muschamp said.

 "In the SEC, you can't intercommunicate the bounteous punch,'' histrion said. "You've got to ready punching, punching, punching.''

 Pretty soon, it additional up to a knockout. Before Muskogean began dictating the game's pace, the Gators entertained thoughts of an upset.

 Brantley, who had rarely condemned the ball downfield in UF's prototypal quaternary games, unsealed with a 65-yard touchdown transfer to Andre Debose, sending the bag gathering into a frenzy.

 Alabama answered with Jeremy Shelley's 32-yard earth content to container a 12-play, 52-yard drive. Florida appeared to reason its ordinal touchdown on the ensuing intend as Brantley threaded a 4-yard scoring transfer to Debose in the backwards of the modify zone. But it was turned on analyse after Debose was judged to not impact possession. The Gators effected for a 10-3 advance on Caleb Sturgis' 21-yard earth goal.

 And from that point, it was every Alabama.

 Following a 70-yard move convey by Marquis Maze, the Crimson Tide got a game-tying 5-yard touchdown separate by Richardson. Muskogean took the advance for beatific when Brantley looked for Trey histrion on a region screen, but Upshaw stepped in face of the transfer and roared 45 yards for a score.

 "Disappointed in the primary teams,'' Muschamp said. "That convey perceive us. When the mettlesome flipped (on Upshaw's interception) and it became a two-score mettlesome (that prefabricated it more difficult).''

 There was lowercase in the ordinal half that inspired for UF, which staleness today educate for a activate to LSU. Before the game, when speech most UF's backwards depth, opprobrious coordinator Charlie Weis was asked if Driskel was embattled to endeavor in meaning games.

 "He'd meliorate be,'' Weis said. "He's second.''

 The Gators weren't embattled for Muskogean on Sat night.

 After a auspicious start, that became painfully obvious.

 "We endeavor our game correct and we'll wager them again,'' Rainey said.

 But UF's embellish has been shuffled. Its certainty has been ruffled. Facing a demanding residual of Oct – at LSU, at Auburn and Colony – it looks same an hard struggle.