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The Gators competed in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and played their home games at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. The 2012 season was the Gators' second under head coach Will ...
The University of Florida did not adopt the "Florida Gators" nickname for its sports teams until 1911, and the early Florida football teams were known simply as "Florida" or the "Orange and Blue." The football team played most of their home games at on-campus Fleming Field until 1930, when Florida Field was constructed.
Coach Billy Napier and his team did something no one at Florida had done in nearly two decades. DJ Lagway threw two touchdown passes, Montrell Johnson ran for 127 yards and a score, and the Gators ...
The 1930 Gators also defeated Georgia Tech for the first time, 55–7, [94] and played their first game at Florida Field (a 20–0 loss to national champion Alabama). [95] Winning four of 18 games over the next two seasons ( 1931 and 1932), Bachman ended his tenure on a high note in his final game with a 12–2 inter-sectional upset of the UCLA ...
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A couple of good runs from Trevor Etienne put the Gators in the red zone. The Seminoles defense kept the Gators out of the endzone but not off the scoreboard. Q2 | 10:21: Florida 10, FSU 0. Gators ...
Florida and LSU were charter members of the SEC when the conference was established in 1932 but only met twice on the gridiron over the subsequent two decades. The Gators and Tigers played much more regularly through the 1950s and 1960s and have met annually since 1971, an unbroken series of over fifty years.
The win makes Florida 5-5 with a home game vs. No. 11 Ole Miss in Week 13 and a road trip to a 1-9 Florida State team in the regular season finale. Given how terrible Florida State has been, the ...