Georgia pinch hitter Kaylee Puailoa shows bunt, but pulls it back and takes the 0-2 pitch over the center field wall to send Georgia to the College World Series, defeating Florida 3-2. (0:44)

We knew the Gainesville super regional would be about an SEC team trying to do what only one college softball team had ever done. A lot of us just had the wrong team and the wrong feat.

UCLA's three consecutive national championships are safe for at least three more years.

Hawaii, on the other hand, has some company when it comes to all-time tournament upsets.

Down a run in the game and down to its final strike to prevent a winner-take-all finale that would have favored the host, No. 16 Georgia stunned two-time defending national champion and No. 1 seed Florida 3-2 on Kaylee Puailoa's pinch-hit walk-off two-run home run to center field.

Six years after Hawaii's Jenna Rodriguez eliminated top-seeded Alabama on a walk-off home run, the first time the top seed was eliminated in a super regional, Puailoa matched the feat.

If what transpired in Gainesville, Florida, wasn't the greatest upset in tournament history -- Georgia was a national seed, after all -- it was surely the most significant in the tournament's 64-team format. Georgia didn't just beat the No. 1 seed. It beat the team that won the past two national championships, held down the No. 1 ranking for all but one week this season and entered the super regional with a 56-5 record built on one of the most balanced and dominant pitching staffs in the modern era.

This wasn't quite what it would have been had the Connecticut women's basketball team lost in the Sweet 16 this spring. But it wasn't that far from it, either.

That the hit came from a senior who might have seen her career end without an opportunity to do anything about it had Georgia coach Lu Harris-Champer not elected to send her to plate in the seventh inning was further proof that the story leading up to the super regional was right.

It was just being told about the wrong characters.

This was a softball series about a senior class cementing its legacy. It just happened to be the class of Bulldogs who spent the past three seasons in the shadow of the Gators and the five other SEC rivals who they watched make the trip to the Women's College World Series.

So after stunning Florida in the series opener, the second game was the opportunity for six Georgia seniors who began the day with 177 wins but no trips to Oklahoma City.

"When we were at the hotel today, they just kept talking about how much trust they have for each other, how much love they have for each other and how much genuine belief and caring about each other [they have]," Harris-Champer said. "That goes so far."

Had the series gone to a third game, Florida would have had momentum, two rested pitchers with All-American credentials and the home crowd on its side. It had to be this game.

The lone senior not in the starting lineup, Puailoa said she listened to left-handed-hitting teammates tell her to stay on top of a rise ball from Florida starter Aleshia Ocasio that they felt wasn't jumping in the final few feet of its journey to the plate. She did that. But she wasn't alone. After Florida gave up just 18 home runs in its first 62 games this season, Georgia senior Katie Browne hit a solo shot in the second inning that grabbed the lead and erased any suggestion Thursday was a fluke.