For Florida football, love is in the air.
It wasn’t the characteristically slow start the Gators have shown this season, and with the way Florida (5-1) played, coach Amanda Butler can only hope the energetic starts continue for the team.
Some teams are made up of more than just talented athletes from around the country and the world.
With Week 13 of NFL action in the books, here are some of the highlight performances from former Gators now playing in the big leagues.
With the 2014 Heisman Trophy ceremony less than two weeks away, several hardware hopefuls will make their final cases on Championship Saturday this weekend.
Florida coach Mary Wise is a volleyball legend.
The Florida volleyball team earned the No. 8 seed in the 2014 NCAA Tournament on Sunday and will serve as one of 16 hosts for the first and second rounds of this year’s tournament.
TALLAHASSEE — Outside Doak Campbell Stadium lie the graves of the conquered. Florida State’s Sod Cemetery serves as the football program’s trophy case, boasting the buried battlegrounds from some of the Seminoles’ most memorable victories.
As a typical rivalry week goes in college football, nothing goes as expected. Let’s take a look back at the final week of the regular season and see how it affects Championship Saturday next weekend.
TALLAHASSEE — As Treon Harris lined the Florida offense up with fourth and the ballgame to go, I scanned the crowd of 82,485 at Doak Campbell Stadium. My eyes met briefly with a female Florida State fan, and she smiled at me. It wasn’t one of those happy smiles, it was a nervous one, an "oh crap there’s still a chance we might lose this game," kind of smile. I just assumed she was new around these parts. Perhaps she had woken from a coma last Sunday and this was her first FSU game this season.
Nearly two months ago, Florida was dominated by Texas.
TALLAHASSEE — It wasn’t in the cards for the Gators and Will Muschamp.
By way of penalty kicks, Florida fell to Stanford on Friday night in the Elite Eight round of the NCAA Tournament, bringing an end to the Gators’ season.
Facing its second Big East opponent on the road in less than a week, the Gators were able to avoid the early pace problems that have plagued the team throughout the season and beat Georgetown 81-73 on Friday night in Washington D.C.
With 2:04 left to play against No. 5 North Carolina, Florida shooting guard Michael Frazier II hit a three-pointer to cut No. 18 UF’s deficit to seven points.
Coach Billy Donovan said he has been trying to get his guys to overcome the second half struggles that have plagued the Gators since the start of the season. While Florida failed to do just that against Georgetown on Wednesday, it succeeded on Thursday.
Another dramatic game, another buzzer beating basket and another loss No. 18 Florida (2-2). The Gators fell to the Georgetown Hoyas 66-65 in the first round of the Battle 4 Atlantis on Paradise Island, Bahamas, on Wednesday night.
For the first time since 2010, Florida finished undefeated in the Southeastern Conference.
For the first 10 minutes, it appeared the Gators were going to succumb to the slow start issues that has plagued the team throughout its first three games.
After opening the season with two wins at home, Florida (2-1) lost its first game of the season on Friday, a 72-66 loss to St. John’s. The team looks to get back to its early winning ways when it takes on Charleston Southern (2-1) tonight at 7 in the O’Connell Center.
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