1992_Florida_Gators_football_team

1992 Florida Gators football team

1992 Florida Gators football team

American college football season


The 1992 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1992 NCAA Division I-A football season. The season was Steve Spurrier's third as the Florida Gators football team's head coach, and the wins were harder to come by as the star-studded senior classes from 1990 and 1991 had graduated. The Gators racked up six tough Southeastern Conference (SEC) wins over the Kentucky Wildcats (35–19), LSU Tigers (28–21), Auburn Tigers (24–9), seventh-ranked Georgia Bulldogs (26–24), South Carolina Gamecocks (14–9), and Vanderbilt Commodores (41–21). They also suffered two crushing SEC losses to the fourteenth-ranked Tennessee Volunteers (14–31) in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the twenty-fourth-ranked Mississippi State Bulldogs (6–30) on a Thursday night in Starkville, Mississippi.

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The Gators' non-conference schedule included a homecoming victory over the Louisville Cardinals (31–17), and another surprisingly difficult win over Southern Miss Golden Eagles (24–20). They closed their regular season with a road loss to the third-ranked Florida State Seminoles (24–45) in Tallahassee.

The Gators finished their SEC schedule with a 6–2 conference record, placing first among the six teams of the new SEC Eastern Division and earning a berth in the first-ever SEC Championship Game in Birmingham, Alabama. Spurrier's scrappy young Gators, however, fell short against the SEC Western Division champion, the second-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide (21–28). The Crimson Tide later defeated the Miami Hurricanes in the Sugar Bowl to win the 1992 national championship.

Spurrier's 1992 Florida Gators posted a 9–4 overall record, concluding their season with a victory over the twelfth-ranked NC State Wolfpack (27–10) in the Gator Bowl, and ranking tenth in the final AP Poll.[1]

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References

  1. 2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine, University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, p. 107 (2015). Retrieved August 16, 2015.
  2. "No. 4 Florida's talent wears down Kentucky". The Evansville Courier. September 13, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Vols one again reduce Gators to road kill, 31–14". The Orlando Sentinel. September 20, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Turnovers sink Gators". St. Petersburg Times. October 2, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Florida holds off LSU". Daily World. October 11, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Gators thump Tigers". The Montgomery Advertiser. October 18, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Gators building steam for run at SEC leaders". The Paducah Sun. October 25, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Gators' Dawg-gone good day". The Miami Herald. November 1, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Gators survive close call 24–20". The Palm Beach Post. November 8, 1992. Retrieved March 28, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Florida sneaks past USC". Florence Morning News. November 15, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Gators lock up SEC East". Tallahassee Democrat. November 22, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 via Newspapers.com.
  12. "FSU humiliates Florida 45–24". The Naples Daily News. November 29, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Bama: Bye Gators, hi UM". The Miami Herald. December 6, 1992. Retrieved March 28, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
  14. "It's Gators' bowl: Florida, fog roll". The News and Observer. January 1, 1993. Retrieved November 14, 2023 via Newspapers.com.

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