Florida vs Alabama

I wish I could lay claim to all of this wonderful information but I can't.  I copied this from:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Gators_football

While Alabama and Florida were charter members of the SEC, they have never been annual opponents. Nevertheless, they have had many noteworthy meetings over the years, especially since the SEC Championship Game game was instituted in 1992.
The Gators and Tide have met 7 times for the SEC championship, including the first three games and the last two. These meetings have consistently had significant national title implications: on four occasions, the winner of a Florida-Alabama SEC title game has gone on to win a national championship. Stakes were never higher than in 2008 and 2009, when the teams were ranked #1 and #2 coming into the game. The #2-ranked team won in both instances (Florida in 2008, Alabama in 2009) and went on to win the two most recent BCS National Championship Games. Florida holds a 4-3 edge in conference title games against the Tide.
The teams have had several memorable regular season meetings as well, highlighted by notable upsets. In 1963, an unranked Gator squad handed legendary Alabama head coach Bear Bryant the first of only two losses his teams would suffer in Tuscaloosa, winning 10-6 over the #3 Tide.^[49] In 1987, freshman running back Emmitt Smith led the unranked Gators to a 23-14 upset in Birmingham, rushing for a then school-record 224 yards in his first collegiate start. The Tide enjoyed their own upset in the series in 1999, breaking Florida's school record 30-game home winning streak in a 40-39 overtime thriller.
Historically, the Gators have not fared well against Alabama in Gainesville. The Tide won the first seven meetings on the Gator's home field, including Florida's worst-ever home loss: a 40-0 blowout in 1979 that featured an Alabama squad which would go undefeated and win the national championship against a Gator squad which would not win a game all season. The Gators finally beat Alabama on Florida Field in 1991, 35-0, but their 2–8 all-time home record against the Crimson Tide is still their worst against any opponent. They have fared better on the road in the series, posting a 8–9 record on Alabama's home turf.^[48]
There is a disagreement about when the schools' first gridiron meeting took place. Alabama counts a 1904 victory, while Florida does not, as the school did not officially begin its football program until 1906.^[48][50] According to UF, Alabama leads the all-time series 21–14.

Week 4 AP Poll

Here it is, week four AP poll.  The Gators move up to #7 and the Longhorns drop to #21 after the home loss to UCLA.  The SEC has Alabama at #1, Florida at #7, Auburn at #10, LSU at #12, Arkansas at #15 and South Carolina at #19.  The Gators travel to Tuscaloosa to take on Bama Saturday.  If Florida can control or harness Ingram and Richardson they have a chance.    You have to give Bama credit.  They played Penn State at home and won, traveled to Arkansas and came back to win, get Florida at home and the next week go to South Carolina.  Then November comes and they play LSU and Auburn.  That is six ranked teams.  Florida has Alabama and LSU left on schedule that are currently ranked.  If the Tide makes it to Atlanta with no losses, watch out cause they probably can't be beat. Don't get me wrong, I want them to lose, especially Saturday against Florida.  Bama showed some weakness against Arkansas, but Arkansas is a good football team and Bama did find a way back to win.  You can't coach kids how to battle back to win, that comes naturally. Well, this is a big game week for the Gators.  They will have to continue to improve on offense and I think they have.  We should probably say that Florida doesn't need to improve on offense but find their offense.  If you remember the 06 season with Tebow as a freshman and Leak a senior, Tebow became the X factor for the Gators that got them to the National Championship.  If you watched the game against Kentucky or read a paper today you will see that Freshman Trey Burton has appeared to step into that role.  Without looking back at 06 stats, I know there were alot of close wins, but they were wins.  Remember South Carolina with the three blocked kicks.  All Florida has to do is continue to win and the BCS and SEC Championship games will work themselves out. 1 Bit, 2 Bits, 3 Bits a dollar, all for the Gators stand up and holler.  Go GATORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!     AP Top 25
RK	Team	W-L	Points	Prev	Next	Last
1	Alabama (57)	4-0	1496	1	Florida	W24-20 at Arkansas
2	Ohio State (2)	4-0	1431	2	Illinois	W73-20 Eastern Michigan
3	Boise State (1)	3-0	1356	3	New Mexico State	W37-24 Oregon State
4	Oregon	4-0	1276	5	Stanford	W42-31 at Arizona State
5	TCU	4-0	1269	4	Colorado State	W41-24 at Southern Methodist
6	Nebraska	4-0	1158	6	Kansas State	W17-3 South Dakota State
7	Florida	4-0	1132	9	Alabama	W48-14 Kentucky
8	Oklahoma	4-0	1095	8	Texas	W31-29 at Cincinnati
9	Stanford	4-0	891	16	Oregon	W37-14 at Notre Dame
10	Auburn	4-0	858	17	Louisiana-Monroe	W35-27 South Carolina
11	Wisconsin	4-0	852	11	Michigan State	W70-3 Austin Peay
12	LSU	4-0	804	15	Tennessee	W20-14 West Virginia
13	Utah	4-0	790	13	Iowa State	W56-3 San Jose State
14	Arizona	4-0	722	14	Oregon State	W10-9 California
15	Arkansas	3-1	721	10	Texas A&M	L20-24 Alabama
16	Miami (FL)	2-1	597	19	Clemson	W31-3 at Pittsburgh
17	Iowa	3-1	503	18	Penn State	W45-0 Ball State
18	USC	4-0	466	20	Washington	W50-16 at Washington State
19	South Carolina	3-1	406	12	Alabama	L27-35 at Auburn
20	Michigan	4-0	396	21	Indiana	W65-21 Bowling Green
21	Texas	3-1	374	7	Oklahoma	L12-34 UCLA
22	Penn State	3-1	199	23	Iowa	W22-13 Temple
23	North Carolina State	4-0	163	33	Virginia Tech	W45-28 at Georgia Tech
24	Michigan State	4-0	146	25	Wisconsin	W45-7 Northern Colorado
25	Nevada	4-0	120	27	UNLV	W27-13 at Brigham Young

Bama Wins and So Do The Gators

Ingram and Richardson stayed somewhat in check but the Bama Defense did stop Arkansas on their last two drives with turnovers.  It was a close one in Auburn but the Tigers hold on with a big win over the Gamecocks.   Florida finally found a little production on offense.  Way to go Trey Burton with six touchdowns in a single game.  That is a new record for the Gators and was previously held by Tebow with five.  What has happened to the Georgia Bulldawgs.  With a loss today against Mississippi State they are 0-3 in SEC play and 1-3 overall.  Things don't look like they are turning around for Georgia with a trip coming this week to Colorado. 

We will see if the new production the Gators found on offense will help keep the game respectable against Bama next Saturday night.  Check on Sunday evening for the latest polls.

Paul "Bear" Bryant

The coach of the Kentucky Wildcats in 1950 was Bear Bryant, the legend of Alabama.  I don't think this is the year that Kentucky can beat the Gators.  Of course as a Gator fan, I don't think they ever will.  The advantage that Florida has is better and alot more talent.  Kentucky does have good players but across the board Florida has them beat.  Joker Phillips, the new head coach at Kentucky, may be able in the future to get the talent they need to be more competitive in the SEC. 

Enough on Kentucky and Florida.  Lets move on to the real games of the weekend.  Alabama travels to Arkansas and South Carolina to Auburn.  The Gator in me wants Arkansas to win and South Carolina to dominate Auburn with their defense and Freshman running back Lattimore.  But the realist in me says that Bama wins in defensive style and South Carolina and Auburn take it to the wire.  Don't count Auburn out of the SEC West.  They do have a good QB in Newton.  I know this because he was on the Florida roster and Florida generally don't get second rate players.

My pick on Alabama and Arkansas is Bama 37 with Ingram and Richardson splitting 260 yards on the ground and Arkansas 13 with Mallet struggling against the Alabama D-line not the secondary.  South Carolina needs to jump on Auburn early and often.  If this goes to overtime Auburn has a slight edge on South Carolina but the Gamecocks win with 27 and Auburn 24.

No, I am not perfect and all of my thoughts may totally be wrong, but thats why they play next week to give me a chance to get it right.  Don't forget about the Miami and Pitt game on Thursday night.  Go Gators.

Kentucky vs. Florida

Florida has played Kentucky on and off since 1917.  The Gators lead the series 43-17 and have won the past 23 in a row dating back to 1986.  There have been some memorable moments in the series with some close calls for the Gators.  Kentucky, although known for it's Basketball program has been playing football since 1881. 

Kentucky claims one National Title and two SEC Titles with one of the SEC Title's in 1976.  What year did Kentucky win their first SEC and one and only National Title and who was the coach?

Week 3 2010 AP Poll

AP Top 25 RK Team W-L Points Prev Next Last 1 Alabama (53) 3-0 1492 1 Arkansas  W62-13 at Duke 2 Ohio State (5) 3-0 1435 2 Eastern Michigan  W43-7 Ohio 3 Boise State (1) 2-0 1333 3 Oregon State  W51-6 at Wyoming 4 TCU 3-0 1280 4 Southern Methodist  W45-10 Baylor 5 Oregon 3-0 1238 5 Arizona State  W69-0 Portland State 6 Nebraska 3-0 1175 8 South Dakota State  W56-21 at Washington 7 Texas (1) 3-0 1164 6 UCLA  W24-14 at Texas Tech 8 Oklahoma 3-0 1114 7 Cincinnati  W27-24 Air Force 9 Florida 3-0 1044 10 Kentucky  W31-17 at Tennessee 10 Arkansas 3-0 903 12 Alabama  W31-24 at Georgia 11 Wisconsin 3-0 803 11 Austin Peay  W20-19 Arizona State 12 South Carolina 3-0 739 13 Auburn  W38-19 Furman 13 Utah 3-0 703 14 San Jose State  W56-14 at New Mexico 14 Arizona 3-0 663 24 California  W34-27 Iowa 15 LSU 3-0 654 15 West Virginia  W29-7 Mississippi State 16 Stanford 3-0 606 19 Notre Dame  W68-24 Wake Forest 17 Auburn 3-0 600 16 South Carolina  W27-24 Clemson 18 Iowa 2-1 482 9 Ball State  L27-34 at Arizona 19 Miami (FL) 1-1 472 17 Pittsburgh  L24-36 at Ohio State 20 USC 3-0 414 18 Washington State  W32-21 at Minnesota 21 Michigan 3-0 291 20 Bowling Green  W42-37 Massachusetts 22 West Virginia 3-0 258 21 LSU  W31-17 Maryland 23 Penn State 2-1 198 22 Temple  W24-0 Kent State 24 Oregon State 1-1 75 25 Boise State  W35-28 Louisville 25 Michigan State 3-0 45 38 Northern Colorado  W34-31 Notre Dame
ESPN College Game Day will be at the Big Blue Field at Boise State for the Boise State-Oregon State game.  I am not sure but I would be willing to say that this may be the first time that ESPN has had Game Day there.  The real game this week will be when Alabama travels to Arkansas.  Bama has a young secondary and Arkansas has a good QB in Mallet.  Should be a good test for Arkasas and a good barometer of how good Bama really is.
Another great game should be the Ol Ball Coach of South Carolina playing on the Plains of Auburn.  Both teams have showed that they can complete a game with Auburn winning over Clemson and South Carolina winning over Georgia. LSU takes on West Virginia which is a game that will hopefully show that the SEC continues to fare well against out of conference foes.  The Gators have Kentucky at home that will hopefully be a final warm up game before a week off then to Alabama.  That wraps up SEC teams in the top 25 for week 3.

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