​Jadan Baugh during the Gators’ game against the Ole Miss Rebels on Saturday, September 26, 2026 at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla. / UAA Communications photo by Victoria RiccobonoVictoria Riccobono/University of Florida AthleticsCoaches and players said all of the right things. Running back Jadan Baugh, whose stock is soaring nationally, provided the familiar cliches during a postgame radio interview about one week at a time and the like. Jon Sumrall? The first-year coach in Gainesville rattled off “Still have a lot to clean up” and “We have so much room to grow and get better” during his presser.Sure, there was ample praise dished out as well. There should have been. After all, the Florida Gators toppled Ole Miss in the Swamp (52-28) to close out a September in which they went unblemished (4-0) and enter Saturday’s matchup at No. 25 Mizzou having ascended to No. 8 in the AP poll. Frankly, this has been a long time coming in Gainesville. The Gators were last in the top 10 in 2021 when they checked in at No. 10 following a win over Tennessee in the Swamp. After that? Well, Dan Mullen did not finish the season as the Gators won only one more conference game the rest of the way and finished 6-7. It was the first of three straight losing seasons and four out five with Billy Napier’s tenure (22-23) coming to an end at last season’s midpoint. (The buyouts have piled up at UF.)In other words, settle down and allow things to play out on a week-to-week basis. That is especially the case with the Gators traveling to play a Mizzou team coming off a frustrating loss at Mississippi State. “Oftentimes in life, whether things have gone good or bad, when you live in the past or you think about what just happened, one of two things is going to happen,” said Sumrall during his weekly presser. “If things have been going good, you will get complacent. Or of things have gone bad, you will have regret.”Hence, the message to his team following the win over Ole Miss was rather simple.“We get one opportunity this week,” he said. “We had one opportunity last week. It’s gone forever. Move on.” Jadan Baugh joins UF greatsThrough four games, Baugh has run for a nation’s-best 11 touchdowns while piling up 600 yards (No. 2) at an average of 7.2 yards per tote. The junior is spearheading an offense averaging 533 yards per game, good for fifth nationally. As for Baugh’s place in UF history, his effort against Ole Miss was his fifth straight 100-yard game dating to last season’s regular season finale against Florida State. Only Fred Taylor (1997) and Emmitt Smith (1987, 1988) had such streaks in program annals.“Just having my name up there with those guys, they did so much when they were here,” he said, following the win over the Rebels. “Being able to follow in their footsteps and excel means so much to me.”Baugh ran for 266 yards in that game against the Seminoles at the end of last season, the second-most in school hi