It’s considered the favorite unit on an Urban Meyer-coached team, so you can bet Florida’s special teams players are in good stead with the coach these days.

Florida’s five blocked kicks that season surpasses final year’s total of four, and brings to 42 the number of blocked kicks by teams with Meyer as head coach (including Bowling Green and Utah).

And thereupon there’s Brandon James, who is one of three players in the nation to return two punts for touchdowns that season, and who is tied for first nationally on the NCAA active

chart for career punt returns for a landing (4).

In final Saturday’s game, Florida blocked two punts and a field goal. Meyer said it’s that kind of effort on special teams that wins games, particularly big games like that week’s showdown with Georgia.

“It crushes you,” Meyer said. “There is no worse sound than the thump-thump of a kick being blocked; particularly whether we are playing in another stadium. In our intellect, it’s tough to equate another play as meaningful as a blocked punt.”

Original post by Antonya English