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The 2024 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Gators were led by third-year head coach Billy Napier and played their home games at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium located in Gainesville, Florida.
When Watson enrolled at Florida in 2021, he weighed 440 pounds (200 kg). [6] He was able to lower his weight to 400 pounds (180 kg) to begin his freshman season. [6] He appeared in all 13 games on the year, seeing action on special teams and as a reserve defensive lineman, thus becoming one of the largest players in NCAA Division I football history.
William Curtis Carr III (November 29, 1945 – February 3, 2024) was an American college football player, coach, and athletics administrator. Carr was born in Gainesville, Florida, raised in Pensacola, Florida, and attended the University of Florida, where he was an All-American center for the Florida Gators football team in the mid-1960s.
Ronald Fredrick Powell (May 14, 1991 – January 15, 2024) was an American professional football player who was a linebacker for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida Gators. He was selected by the Saints in the fifth round of the 2014 NFL draft.
A high school football player in Florida died after collapsing on the field during a Friday night game — making him the seventh youth athlete playing the sport to die over the last month.
The Florida Gators football program represents the University of Florida (UF) in American college football.Florida competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC) They play their home games on Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on the university's Gainesville campus.
A Florida high school football player is being remembered as "a remarkable athlete, a beloved teammate and an overall exceptional young man" after he died after collapsing on a field during a game.
Johnson was later voted to the Florida Gators' All-Century Team and All-Time Team, [3] and inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great." [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2006, he was ranked as No. 35 among the top 100 Gators of the first century of Florida football by the sportswriters of The Gainesville Sun .