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Interesting history on UF-UT rivalry
Posted on 9/13/12 at 2:02 pm
Posted on 9/13/12 at 2:02 pm
Not too long a read and some hilarious stuff.
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Trailing 38-7 at Neyland Stadium with the clock winding down, frustrated Florida linebacker Jack Youngblood couldn't help himself. The 1970 Florida-Tennessee game ended with Youngblood dropping his pants and mooning Volunteers fans.
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The day after the Gators were clobbered 62-24 by top-ranked Nebraska in the Fiesta Bowl national championship game, the final 1995 USA Today/CNN Coaches poll was released and had Tennessee (11-1) ranked ahead of Florida (12-1). The two teams had played earlier in the year with Gators annihilating Manning and the Vols 62-37 in Gainesville. The decisive vote reportedly came from the ballot of Coach Phillip Fulmer, who ranked his UT squad second and the Gators 13th, thus skewing the vote enough to drop Florida, the SEC champs, from second to third.
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Posted on 9/13/12 at 2:10 pm to bengalbait
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The decisive vote reportedly came from the ballot of Coach Phillip Fulmer, who ranked his UT squad second and the Gators 13th, thus skewing the vote enough to drop Florida, the SEC champs, from second to third.
Posted on 9/13/12 at 2:12 pm to bengalbait
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The decisive vote reportedly came from the ballot of Coach Phillip Fulmer, who ranked his UT squad second and the Gators 13th, thus skewing the vote enough to drop Florida, the SEC champs, from second to third.
Legend.
Posted on 9/13/12 at 2:21 pm to Jerry the Clown
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That's when Spurrier brought up UT's 9-6 home loss to rival Alabama that came the week after the Florida game when everyone in Rocky Top was still riding high. "We were just trying to get you all overconfident for the big game against the Crimson Tide." Majors took a few steps in Spurrier's direction and the two had to be separated by -- get this -- Georgia coach Ray Goff. And their wives.
Could you immagine being at a cocktail party and seeing this. Gotta hand it to the ol ball coach he's passionate and got some big brass balls.
Posted on 9/13/12 at 2:50 pm to bengalbait
I miss SOS in orange and blue. He is the chiz.
Posted on 9/13/12 at 2:54 pm to bengalbait
speaking of pants and since both wear orange...which fans will be wearing these gems?
Posted on 9/13/12 at 2:58 pm to arrakis
Cromp daddy has already called dibbs.
Posted on 9/13/12 at 3:15 pm to bengalbait
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The 1969 Gator Bowl matchup between a pair of SEC opponents, Florida and Tennessee, offered up enough intrigue on its own, but the pre-game storyline had nothing to do with the game. UT coach Doug Dickey, reports said, was Florida's top choice to replace Coach Ray Graves, who was believed to be retiring from coaching to become athletic director. It made sense, given Dickey starred at Florida in the '50s, but it also mad a lot of people mad (especially up in Rocky Top). There were denials, there were no comments. And three days after the game, a 14-13 win for the Gators, Dickey (pictured above with QB John Reaves) was announced as UF's next head coach. The state of Tennessee promptly announced Dickey a "traitor."
Why does this sound somewhat familiar?????
Posted on 9/13/12 at 3:27 pm to arrakis
Boom would be the nuts in those.
Posted on 9/13/12 at 3:50 pm to bengalbait
Posted on 9/13/12 at 4:12 pm to bengalbait
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The Gators were placed on NCAA probation three weeks into the 1984 season and declared ineligible for bowl play, with Coach Charley Pell resigning under fire. Under interim coach Galen Hall, however, Florida rolled off eight straight victories to finish 9-1-1 (including 6-0-1 in league play) and captured the first SEC title in school history. Seven months later, in a controversial move that still steams long-time Gator loyalists, conference presidents voted to at the league meetings in Destin, Fla., to retroactively strip UF of its championship. And it was Tennessee president Joe Johnson who led the behind-the-scene charge to take the title away.
This one really chaps my arse. Teams win championships while they are on probation all the time now.
The Gators were placed on NCAA probation three weeks into the 1984 season and declared ineligible for bowl play, with Coach Charley Pell resigning under fire. Under interim coach Galen Hall, however, Florida rolled off eight straight victories to finish 9-1-1 (including 6-0-1 in league play) and captured the first SEC title in school history. Seven months later, in a controversial move that still steams long-time Gator loyalists, conference presidents voted to at the league meetings in Destin, Fla., to retroactively strip UF of its championship. And it was Tennessee president Joe Johnson who led the behind-the-scene charge to take the title away.
This one really chaps my arse. Teams win championships while they are on probation all the time now.
Posted on 9/13/12 at 4:14 pm to 10888bge
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The 1969 Gator Bowl matchup between a pair of SEC opponents, Florida and Tennessee, offered up enough intrigue on its own, but the pre-game storyline had nothing to do with the game. UT coach Doug Dickey, reports said, was Florida's top choice to replace Coach Ray Graves, who was believed to be retiring from coaching to become athletic director. It made sense, given Dickey starred at Florida in the '50s, but it also mad a lot of people mad (especially up in Rocky Top). There were denials, there were no comments. And three days after the game, a 14-13 win for the Gators, Dickey (pictured above with QB John Reaves) was announced as UF's next head coach. The state of Tennessee promptly announced Dickey a "traitor."
Now we hate him and the Vols love him. And he is a Gator grad. Go figure.
Posted on 9/13/12 at 4:15 pm to bengalbait
No. There is none.
Posted on 9/15/12 at 7:27 am to bengalbait
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In 1928, Florida had the nation's highest-scoring team (336 points), led by two-way star Dale Van Sickle (above), the first All-American in the program's history. UF was considered the fastest team in the country and the Volunteers (8-0-1) took that into consideration when they hosted the Gators (8-0) in the season finale with a berth in the Rose Bowl on the line for Florida. In the early hours before the game, Tennessee grounds keepers were out before sunrise to hose the field down until it was soaked, thus reducing UF's speed advantage, much to the dismay of Coach Charles Bachman. And then it rained. Florida, which averaged nearly 38 points per game that season, matched Tennessee with two touchdowns, but failed to convert either point-after and lost 13-12.
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