The Gators are getting healthy at the right time
By Dylan Rudolph | Oct. 27, 2019Dramatic endings, top-10 upsets and championship dreams busted. All Florida had to do was sit and watch.
Dramatic endings, top-10 upsets and championship dreams busted. All Florida had to do was sit and watch.
Despite two losing seasons in the last 10 years (2013 and 2017), Florida’s football program has consistently turned out NFL-caliber athletes, establishing it as the FBS team with the third-most active players on a 53-man roster in 2019 with 35 — including five rookies (Vosean Joseph, Jordan Scarlett, Jawaan Taylor, C.J. Gardner-Johnson and Fred Johnson).
It’s all happening for Florida's football team.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Kyle Trask has been asked to do a lot this season.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Florida played its worst game of the year, appearing to follow a recipe for back-to-back losses precisely.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — They say an alligator moves faster in water than it does on land.
The Gators’ meetings with the Gamecocks this season and last have both come at precarious times in Florida’s grueling schedule. For the second year in a row, the Gators will head into the game following a loss, which is quite the coincidence considering UF has lost just four games in the past season and a half.
The South Carolina State Fair is in Columbia this week across the street from Williams-Brice Stadium.
Adversity is nothing new to the Gators football team. The rash of injuries to key players on both sides of the ball has been well documented, but a loss is something Florida hasn’t swallowed in quite some time.
BATON ROUGE, La. — The Florida defense went into Saturday night’s top-10 showdown with LSU leading the SEC in scoring defense (9.5 points per game), sacks (26) and interceptions (12).
BATON ROUGE, La. — The game was close. Shocker. LSU won. Not too surprising. Florida’s offense kept it in the game, and the defense was the reason it lost it. Wait, what?
BATON ROUGE, La. — Kyle Trask picked an inopportune time for his biggest mistake of the season.
You know that paradoxical question: “What happens when an unstoppable force meets meets an immovable object?”
The Gators haven’t faced LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in nearly three years. The rivals played their last two games in Gainesville thanks to an arrangement stemming from Hurricane Matthew in 2016.
Kyree Campbell was right: The Gators indeed played “big boy ball” Saturday night.
There’s usually a pretty surefire way to lose a game against a good team: Just give the ball away.
A morning of festivities led into an afternoon of football in Gainesville, surrounded by a raucous Florida crowd. College GameDay, a top-10 matchup and an SEC rivalry incited more than 90,000 fans into a frenzy, and every tackle produced a near-earthquake cheer.
Another week of the college football season is in the books, and it still feels like we don’t know anything about any of these teams.
It has been a long time since there was this much anticipation for a game in Gainesville.