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A familiar name for Gator fans is returning to Gainesville, this time as head football coach. After a few hectic weeks of searching, Florida Athletic Director Scott Stricklin announced that Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen has been hired as Florida’s new head coach. "I strongly believe Dan is the …

Florida football interim head coach Randy Shannon says going into the FSU game this weekend, his team will have to improve in many areas. Need for Improvement from Receivers After the 36-7 win over UAB, one position group that caught criticism for their play was the receivers. Despite quarterback Feleipe …

This year’s meeting between Florida and Florida State in football has a different feeling to it. Figures of years past like Dalvin Cook and Teez Tabor…gone. The hype and build up of a clash between two of the state’s best teams with winning records…gone. What isn’t gone though is how …

It’s been a month and a half since the Gators had last picked up a win. Following a 38-24 win at home over Vanderbilt on September 30, Florida proceeded to 0-5 over the following seven calendar weeks. That disappointing period, which included with the firing of its head coach, was …

Forget bowl eligibility. Forget a spot in the college football playoff or a spot in Atlanta for the SEC Championship Game. For Florida interim head coach Randy Shannon and his Gators, its all about finishing the season out strong. “Guys are not thinking about the bowl,” Shannon said. “We cannot …

After two straight blowout losses, it would be easy for the Gator football team to point fingers to place the blame. Florida head coach Randy Shannon is having none of that. “I don’t make excuses,” he said. And he isn’t making any right now, even with all the injuries the …

“We were not a football team that was consistent,” said Florida Gators football interim head coach Randy Shannon. Shannon started off Monday’s press conference with this and said it was the biggest contributing factor to the teams loss on Saturday. He said special teams did not improve and fixing these …

A hectic week for Florida that started with parting ways with their coach ended with a thud on the field. A flat Gators team fell to the Missouri Tigers 45-16 in Columbia, getting dominated in all three phases of the game. Florida delivered a similarly lackluster performance as it did …

For the first time since 2014, Florida will play a football game without Jim McElwain at the helm. That’s also the last time the Gators lost to the Missouri Tigers. Florida (3-4, 3-3 SEC) travels to Columbia to take on Missouri (3-5, 0-4 SEC) with Randy Shannon as its’ interim …

For the second time in his career, Randy Shannon is a head coach. But this one comes under different circumstances than the first one. His first head coaching gig came at Miami, his alma mater from 2007-2010. While in charge of the Hurricanes, he went 28-22. Now, Shannon is the interim …