Why wasn't Tennessee playing prevent Defense?

There is no way you let a receiver get behind you on that play. No way

Botch said he didn't have and more DBs available to go to the dime, so they stayed in the nickel package.

Shoop has been a really terrible DC for them. Sal Sunseri level bad.

Botch said that his team had too many injuries to run a dime package.

No seriously, that was his explanation.

And Shaq Wiggins was on the sidelines lol

They shouldn't have gone with the full "defend the goal line" prevent, but they should not have been playing tight coverage. The CB at the top of the screen when the play starts is playing tight, almost press, coverage. The safeties also only like 15 yards from the LOS, give or take. They should have been deeper, at least have their heels on the limit of UF's FG range then drop from there.

A 25-30 yard pass gets you in FG range. They couldn't play the pervert D, but there should be no way you let any WR get behind you.

Don't think they expected a 66yd pass in the air. I know the safety didn't.

Hell, you didn't even need to run dime. A) Don't let the corner bite on an underneath out route that wouldn't have been in field goal range with only 9 seconds on the clock at the start of the play... B) Who is 22? He looked out of position and took bad angles almost every time I saw him in the frame... caught napping in a critical moment is a bad look. Probably shouldn't have had him covering half the field from the safety position considering poor play throughout the game.

Yeah I don't know what Abernathy was doing. He's normally solid. Martin is the cornerback on the bottom but he's always fricking up so that didn't surprise me.