History of the Florida Gators Football Team

The University of Florida is located in Gainesville, Florida and was founded in 1853. Their first football game was played in 1906 and since then they’ve had an all-time record of 597 – 364 – 40. The Gators history is a lot like the history of the Chicago Cubs, for many decades they showed a lot of promise, putting several winning teams on the field and in 1928, 1966, 1969, and 1985, the Gators went deep into the season with a shot at the National Championship but came up short. Fortunately the Gators aren’t the Cubs and they finally broke through with their first National Championship in 1996.

Times weren’t always great for the Gators though, from 1933 to 1950 the Gators only had one winning season and their SEC record for that span was 18-57-6, never finish higher than sixth in the conference. Coach Bob Woodruff started to turn around the program, and then Ray Graves turned Florida into a consistent winning team. But it was in 1990 when Steve Spurrier became head coach that the Gators really took off.