Good thing Florida coach Will Muschamp doesn't need batteries.

He'd go through them like a 30-handicapper goes through golf balls on the No. 17 Island Green at TPC Sawgrass.

Florida's success this season has followed Will Muschamp's blueprint for the Gators. Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images

Muschamp is always on, 24/7 and full blast.

It shouldn't come as any surprise, then, that his Florida football team was the biggest mover this season in the SEC. The Gators went from a team that didn't beat anybody and barely finished the season a year ago with a winning record to a team that carved out the best résumé in college football this season.

It wasn't always pretty, and at times it was difficult to watch on offense, but Florida bullied its way to four wins over teams that finished in the top 12 of the final BCS standings.

And the Gators did it the old-fashioned way in going from a 6-6 regular season in Muschamp's first year (7-6 overall) to 11-1 this season, marking the biggest one-year leap for the program in 32 years.

They played championship-caliber defense, committed to running the football, excelled in the kicking game and owned the fourth quarter.

It was the exact blueprint Muschamp laid out for his coaches and players upon taking over for Urban Meyer after the 2010 season, but the results were anything but immediate.

"There were too many games last year where we weren't the most physical team and too many games that we didn't finish," Florida defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd said. "We weren't going to let that happen again."

There's no question that Muschamp inherited some talent, particularly in the defensive line, but he also inherited a program that was, even in Meyer's words, broken in a lot of areas.

It took Muschamp a year to get everybody on the same page and weed out those players who weren't interested in buying into his vision.