In a turn of events that sounds ridiculous on the surface, it appears Florida's first-half timeout issues during last weekend's loss to Georgia has been explained.

Blame the wristbands.

Longtime Gators inside Pat Dooley reported Tuesday on his Dooley Noted podcast that there was miscommunication across the board in the first quarter, leading to a pair of pre-snap timeouts that seemed to infuriate Florida coach Dan Mullen on Florida's first possession.

"We had a guy call in the other day and say he knew that (Florida) had the wrong wristbands, the wristbands did not mesh,” Dooley said. “In other words, they’re signaling in — and I’m just picking these out the air — we’re going to signal in X Blue. X Blue means three wide receivers left and one right and that’s the formation. Well, it was coming in X Blue on one wristband and X Yellow on the other.

“(Kyle) Trask was getting one play, the receivers were getting one play, it was a disaster. When we asked coach Mullen about it on Monday, he said there was an administrative problem. Since then, I’ve talked other people who said, yeah, that’s what was going on. That’s a bad mistake. That’s a mistake that shouldn’t be happening in Week 9 and at a program like this that are running around with jobs.”

Mullen was noticeably frustrated after the game, upset the his team no longer controlled its own destiny in the SEC East after Georgia converted 12 times in 18 tries on third down.

"There’s a lot of football left to be played,” Mullen said. “The division hasn’t been clinched by anybody. It wasn’t going to be clinched today.”

Florida trailed by double digit for most of the game before trimming the deficit to seven points late and deciding to kick off instead of onside kick. Mullen was perturbed by a question related to talent discrepancy after the game and was asked a similar question on Monday.

"How's it more… talent?” Mullen first responded before offering up some responses that seemed a little defensive, per Swamp247's Bob Redman. “So what makes the difference? Just coaching? Or... Personality? How is it closer than seven points or further than seven points?"