It’s hard to believe that we are already halfway through the 2014 college football season, but week eight is upon us. There are several matchups that will determine which teams are contenders and pretenders, and a few chances to upset a team’s chance at the first ever college football playoff.
In a perfect world, freshmen would be good enough to start as soon as they enter college.
Some say that winning is all that matters. Others say it’s all about having fun. Luckily, for Florida, it doesn’t have to choose. It has both.
Late in Florida’s 30-27 loss to LSU Saturday night, a silence enveloped the more than 88,000 fans in attendance.
Jeff Driskel is the Gators’ starting quarterback as of right now, but fans will get another glimpse of what true freshman Treon Harris has to offer when Florida takes on Missouri on Saturday night.
Florida (3-2, 2-2 Southeastern Conference) can still very well win the SEC East and make it to the conference championship in Atlanta for the first time since 2009. They have four SEC matchups remaining on the schedule — all of which are against Eastern Division rivals. The first of those games is against Missouri (4-2, 1-1 SEC) on Saturday night in the Swamp at 7. Here are four points to watch out for when the Gators face their second set of Tigers in as many weeks.
The 2014 Disney Cross Country Classic was not the be-all-end-all for the Florida men’s cross country team.
With the Gators second tournament of the season over, the young team has found it’s leaders, and they’re two freshmen.
Over the course of the three days of the Tar Heel Invitational in Chapel Hill, N.C., sophomore Maria Torres emerged as the most consistent player for the Florida women’s golf team.
For the second consecutive weekend, No. 9 Florida (12-3, 6-0 Southeastern Conference) closed its weekend matchups with two wins against conference opponents.
Make it a combined 36-0 all-time for UF’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving team (M: 1-0, 1-0 Southeastern conference; W: 2-0, 2-0 SEC) against LSU (M: 0-1, 0-1 SEC; W 1-1, 0-1 SEC) as the Florida men’s squad defeated the Tigers by a score of 162.5-122.5 while the women won 166-134 on Friday afternoon.
Florida can get even better.
Jalen Tabor is coming into his own.
It was an up and down week for Florida fans.
Slight confusion surrounded the end of Florida’s 30-27 loss against LSU Saturday night.
The length of the faces tell the story of The Swamp’s sorrow Saturday night after the Florida Gators (3-2, 2-2 Southeastern Conference) lost to the LSU Tigers (5-2, 1-2 SEC).
Freshman Taylor Tomlinson continues to impress in her short time as collegiate golfer, as she led the way for the Florida women’s golf team after the first round of the Tar Heel Invitational in Chapel Hill, N.C.
No. 5 Florida (11-2, 6-0 Southeastern Conference) defeated unranked Mississippi State (3-10, 0-6 SEC) 5-1 Friday on breast cancer awareness night, complete with pink goal nets, field lines and even pink uniforms donned by Florida.
The Gators learned their scouting report.
Treon Harris’ lawyer Huntley Johnson told ESPN.com Friday that Harris’ accuser has dropped her complaint against him.
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