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Struggling Eagles visit reeling Gators at Swamp
FLORIDA
With three weeks left in the season, Georgia Southern had a disappointing 4-4 record and was riding a two-game losing streak as it prepared to play Western Carolina. It would have been easy for the Eagles to go through the motions, but quarterback Jerick McKinnon said the team’s goals for its final three games were pretty simple “We’re taking the approach that if we beat Western Carolina and Elon we’ve won a championship,” McKinnon said, “and our game against Florida will be our bowl game.” The Eagles took care of business against the Catamounts and Phoenix, winning both games handily, to insure themselves of a winning season Georgia Southern (6-4) and McKinnon will now play their mythical bowl game at 2 p.m., today at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla., when they meet a struggling Florida (4-6) team which is attempting to avoid its first losing season since 1979.That appears to be an impossible assignment.