It’s hard to separate Florida Gators football success and the legendary Steve Spurrier. Spurrier won a Heisman Trophy as a quarterback for the Gators, and returned as head coach to guide the school to its first national championship.
Florida has won 19 bowl games in its rich history, and Spurrier has been associated with many of the Gators’ best moments. It took a while for Florida to escape from the shadow of the Gator Bowl (where it played 6 of its first 10 bowls), but once it finally did, it has rarely looked back, winning national titles and producing Heisman-winning playmakers. Coach Urban Meyer took Spurrier’s mantle and brought the school to even higher levels of success.
And even though Florida is returning to the Gator Bowl this season to play Ohio State (Meyer’s new coaching stop) in a rematch of a much more anticipated bowl game from a few years ago, the school that can boast stars like Spurrier, Danny Wuerffel and Tim Tebow is sure to be ba...
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TEAMS: Washington Redskins, New York Giants, Florida Gators, Ohio State Buckeyes, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Florida State Seminoles
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