Tim Tebow compiled a 48-7 record in three seasons at Florida. He played in two SEC Championship Games. He was part of two national championship teams and won a Heisman Trophy. So, it is hard to imagine there is any regret from his college days.

Yet, during Netflix’s documentary, “Untold: Swamp Things,” the SEC Network analyst revealed his biggest regret was a single game.

Put simply, “It was the day that the Gators died, and Tebow cried.”

The 2009 SEC Championship Game pit undefeated Florida, in search of three national championships in four years, against undefeated Alabama, which fell to the Gators in the same game the season before.

The documentary, which seems to gloss over the more explosive off-the-field issues plaguing the program to present a Disney-type presentation of all that the Gators overcame to be champions, did dive into the impact the night of Dec. 5, 2009, had on the program.

“When I look back at all of the game I’ve ever played in, that’s the one I have the most regret for,” Tebow said in the documentary. “We were so close to do it. But we were still trying to match the past versus press on for the future.”

To be clear, Tebow was referring to being close to the ultimate gal of an undefeated, national championship season. The game was anything but.

Mark Ingram rushed for 113 yards and three touchdowns. Greg McElroy threw for 239 yards and a touchdown to claim the MVP award, and Alabama won 32-13. The Alabama defense held Tebow in check and left him crying at the end.

“The game started, and sure enough, we were in a street fight early, and then they started to pull away from us,” then-Florida coach Urban Meyer said. “Their defense was relentless on Tim. Never see it happen where their focus was on ‘get after him.’”

Tebow, who had come back for his senior year to winning another title, was 20 of 35 for 247 yards but his last gasp was picked off in the end zone.

“We went against another juggernaut in Alabama, that for 365 days, they talked about losing to us,” Tebow said looking back. “They preached about stopping us. They had the edge because they had nothing to lose, and we had everything to lose.”

Perhaps most interesting about the game is Florida believes – even today – they were the better team.

“We should have won 2009,” linebacker Ryan Stamper said in the documentary. “Talent for talent, player for player we should not have lost that game.”

The outcome of the game was the nail in the coffin as SEC Network analyst Paul Finebaum alluded to in the documentary.

“I just felt like, you know, something was wrong with me,” Meyer said. “I felt the dynasty slipping from our hands right there. I feel all of this coming on me because it is my team. Felt like a failure.”

Days later Meyer retired, citing health issues.

“You know when I walk in there, I love it,” Tebow said of Ben Griffin Stadium in Gainesville. “It’s the best stadium in the country. So much success, and so much fun, and so many memories. But I think it’s hard for me because there’s supposed to be another number at the end. It’s supposed to say ‘96, ‘06, ‘08, ‘09 (national championships).”

Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim. He can be heard on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5 FM in Mobile or on the free Sound of Mobile App from 6 to 9 a.m. daily.