The Florida Gators men’s basketball team will travel to North Carolina on Wednesday to take on Wake Forest in the inaugural ACC/SEC Challenge. The new tournament will replace the ACC/Big Ten Challenge and the Big 12/SEC Challenge. The Gators are 2-1 against ACC teams so far, defeating Florida State and …
Read More »Florida Fires Secondary Coach Corey Raymond
The Florida Gators’ regular season is over after a loss to Florida State, dropping them to 5-7 and failing to reach bowl eligibility. As a result, many of the coaches on the staff are on the hot seat. It was reported Monday night by the Orlando Sentinel that secondary coach …
Read More »Florida Gators Fire Defensive Line Coach Sean Spencer
Changes are being made to the Gators football staff following Florida’s 5-7 finish to the season after falling 24-15 against rival Florida State on Saturday night. A report from the Orlando Sentinel says Florida fired defensive line coach Sean Spencer. NEWS: Florida has fired DL coach Sean Spencer and DB …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine (Nov. 27)
The Back Nine comes at you after a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend as long as yours could not be spoiled by a Gator loss. That eliminates most of us. 10. There is nothing worse than losing a football game in The Swamp against that team out west. It’s depressing, especially if …
Read More »Gator Football Drops Season Finale In Frustrating 24-15 Loss To FSU
The Florida Gators 2023 football season can be summarized in five words: “So close, yet so far.” Their heartbreaking season finale against the Florida State Seminoles on Saturday night all but confirmed this mantra. The Gators came up short in a closely contested 24-15 loss to finish off their 2023 …
Read More »Dooley Grades The Gators: No. 5 Florida State at Florida
The Tailgate’s Pat Dooley hands out grades after Florida’s 24-15 loss to No. 5 Florida State in The Swamp on Saturday night: OFFENSE D First half: Florida did about as well as you could expect with Max Brown starting the game at quarterback. Even with FSU crowding the line of …
Read More »Backup Quarterbacks Take Center Stage as Florida Hosts Florida State
When Florida and Florida State fans circled their calendars for Nov. 25, they most likely weren’t anticipating a Max Brown versus Tate Rodemaker quarterback battle. But after season-ending injuries to Graham Mertz and Jordan Travis last Saturday, that’s exactly what they’ll get at The Swamp on Saturday night. And this …
Read More »Gator Men’s Hoops Loses to Baylor in NIT Tip-Off Championship
The Florida men’s basketball team was back in action Friday against the No. 13 Baylor Bears. The Gators had an early piece of hardware on the line, playing in the NIT Tip-Off Championship at Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. However, Florida was without center Micah Handlogten, who was out due …
Read More »Florida Gators Set to Face Pittsburgh in NIT Season Tip-Off
The Preseason NIT at Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., begins Wednesday, and as a part of it, the Florida Gators face the Pittsburgh Panthers. Through four games, the Gators sit at 3-1 and the Panthers at 4-0. The teams will tip-off at 9:30 p.m. on ESPN2 or ESPNU. The Match-Up While …
Read More »Digging Deeper: The Journey of Kennedy Muff
It was the energy. It was the pure excitement. It was the goosebumps on your skin that told you where you were that Sunday afternoon. It was the intensity filling every corner of the O’Connell Center, the 10,000 pom poms waving simultaneously that made you forget everything else going on …
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