Editor’s Note: Graduate student, Palm Beach Post Gators beat writer and reader Ben Volin earned a guest column for winning our inaugural alligatorSports Fantasy Challenge.
The Gators have gotten used to playing with distractions this season.
It’s hard not to feel a little sorry for Tim Tebow and Greg McElroy.
Within the first four minutes Tuesday, the Gators jumped out to a 12-0 lead.
Pay attention, public relations majors.
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Splitting games over the Thanksgiving break may not have been the ideal way to ring in the holiday for Florida, but there’s little time to dwell on the past weekend with Florida A&M (3-2) coming to town at 4:30 this afternoon.
Florida blows out Florida State in Tim Tebow's final home game.
Florida State kicker Dustin Hopkins trotted onto Florida Field to attempt a 20-yard field goal with the Seminoles down 30-0 at the end of the third quarter and gave the 90,000-plus onlookers a startling wakeup call.
Jordan Jones scored a season-high 25 points to lead the Gators.
No. 15 UF will face College of Charleston on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Senior Day couldn’t have gone much better for the Gators.
Boasting a taller starting lineup than the Gators, St. John’s presented a post-game threat that took a toll and manifested itself in a 61-47 win over UF on Friday in U.S. Century Bank Arena in Miami.
Although this is the first Gators team under coach Mary Wise to not win the conference, that won’t be the only way she remembers it.
The Swamp is about to host one of the biggest games in its 70-year history.
“Senior Day” just doesn’t do it justice.
The Swamp will say goodbye to a legend Saturday, but he will not be wearing any orange or blue.
After last week’s great matchups, I can only hope rivalry week will give us some thrilling games like Florida’s last-second 62-3 victory over FIU, Alabama’s narrow 45-0 escape of Chattanooga or Texas’ 51-20 tough win over Kansas. This week’s slate has games with great history such as Alabama-Auburn, Florida-Florida State, Clemson-South Carolina and UCLA-USC.
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