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With the game less than two minutes old, the end zone in front of him and Tennessee Volunteer would-be tacklers beginning to fade into the background, Brandon James had just one thought.


Please don't let there be a flag.

He got his wish, and on Florida's first touch of the game James had returned a punt 83 yards for a score. That began an avalanche of points that didn't subside until the final second ticked off of the Gators' 59-20 victory Saturday.

Coach Urban Meyer and quarterback Tim Tebow later praised the talent and skills of the 5-foot-7, 180-pound sophomore. But James, who had an 89-yard punt called back because of a penalty in last year's Tennessee game, didn't want to talk much about himself.

"Once I caught the ball, I knew if the 10 guys in front of me did their usual good job of blocking, I could just follow them and something might happen," said James, who finished with a combined 193 return yards on three punts and four kickoffs. "They did that."

Never a braggadocious sort, James nonetheless said he has gained a lot personally from his summer arrest for purchasing marijuana from an undercover police officer.

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