2000 Florida Gators football team

2000 Florida Gators football
SEC champion
SEC Eastern Division champion
Sugar Bowl, L 20–37 vs. Miami (FL)
Conference Southeastern Conference
Division Eastern Division
Ranking
Coaches No. 11
AP No. 10
2000 record 10–3 (7–1 SEC)
Head coach Steve Spurrier (11th season)
Defensive coordinator Jon Hoke (2nd season)
Captain Alex Brown
Derrick Chambers
Jesse Palmer
Gerard Warren
Alex Willis
Home stadium Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
(Capacity: 83,000)[1]
2000 SEC football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
Eastern Division
No. 10 Florida x$  7 –1     10 –3  
No. 20 Georgia  5 –3     8 –4  
No. 19 South Carolina  5 –3     8 –4  
Tennessee  5 –3     8 –4  
Vanderbilt  1 –7     3 –8  
Kentucky  0 –8     2 –9  
Western Division
No. 18 Auburn x  6 –2     9 –4  
No. 22 LSU  5 –3     8 –4  
Ole Miss  4 –4     7 –5  
No. 24 Mississippi State  4 –4     8 –4  
Arkansas  3 –5     6 –6  
Alabama  3 –5     3 –8  
Championship: Florida 28, Auburn 6
  • $ – BCS representative as conference champion
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2000 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida in the sport of American football during the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Gators competed in Division I-A of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and played their home games at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. They were coached by Steve Spurrier, who led the Gators to their sixth SEC championship, a Sugar Bowl berth, and an overall win-loss record of 10–3 (.769). The season was the team's eleventh of twelve under Spurrier.

Schedule

Date Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result Attendance
September 2 Ball State* No. 9 Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, Florida PPV W 40–19   85,095
September 9 Middle Tennessee* No. 8 Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, Florida PPV W 55–0   84,311
September 16 at No. 11 Tennessee No. 6 Neyland Stadium • Knoxville, Tennessee CBS W 27–23   108,768
September 23 Kentucky No. 3 Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, Florida CBS W 59–31   85,319
September 30 at Mississippi State No. 3 Scott Field • Starkville, Mississippi CBS L 35–47   43,816
October 7 LSU No. 12 Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, Florida JPS W 41–9   85,365
October 14 No. 19 Auburn No. 10 Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, Florida CBS W 38–7   85,710
October 28 vs. No. 13 Georgia No. 8 Alltel Stadium • Jacksonville, Florida CBS W 34–23   84,404
November 4 at Vanderbilt No. 6 Vanderbilt Stadium • Nashville, Tennessee JPS W 43–21   32,714
November 11 No. 21 South Carolinadagger No. 5 Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, Florida CBS W 41–21   85,718
November 18 at No. 3 Florida State* No. 4 Doak Campbell Stadium • Tallahassee, Florida ABC L 7–30   83,042
December 2 vs. No. 18 Auburn No. 7 Georgia Dome • Atlanta, Georgia (SEC Championship) ABC W 28–6   73,427
January 2 vs. No. 2 Miami (FL)* No. 7 Louisiana Superdome • New Orleans, Louisiana (Sugar Bowl) ABC L 20–37   64,407
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game.

Sources: 2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide,[2] and GatorZone.com.[3]

Game summaries

Ball State

1 234Total
Ball St 7 390 19
• Florida 12 1477 40

[4]

Middle Tennessee St.

1 2 3 4 Total
Middle Tennessee State 0 0 0 0 0
Florida 21 17 10 7 55

Tennessee

1 2 3 4 Total
Florida 0 7 10 10 27
Tennessee 3 9 8 3 23

Kentucky

1 2 3 4 Total
Kentucky 3 14 7 7 31
Florida 10 28 14 7 59

Mississippi State

1 2 3 4 Total
Florida 0 10 13 12 35
Mississippi State 5 11 8 23 47

September 30, 2000

The Florida Gators came into Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Mississippi ranked third in the nation. The unranked Mississippi State Bulldogs ran for 351 yards, 172 yards and a touchdown for Dicenzo Miller, and 156 yards and a touchdown for Dontae Walker. Bulldogs quarterback Wayne Madkin also ran for two touchdowns. The Bulldogs compiled 517 total yards of offense.

A frustrated Steve Spurrier rotated three quarterbacks including Rex Grossman. Grossman went 13 for 16 with 231 yards and two touchdowns. All together, the Gators had 494 yards and four touchdowns through the air.

Mississippi State won the game 47–35, breaking Florida's 72-game winning streak against unranked teams in front of a crowd of 43,816. After the game, the Mississippi State fans stormed the field and tore down the goal posts, parts of which ended up all over campus.

Florida Mississippi State
First Downs 26 25
Rushed-Yards 22-M78 57-351
Passing Yards 494 166
Sacked-Yards Lost 3-23 6-58
Return Yards 73 54
Passes 34-57-1 14-27-2
Punts 1-45.0 7-42.0
Fumbles-Lost 2-2 2-1
Penalties-Yards 7-46 10-85
Time of Possession 25:16 34:44

LSU

1 2 3 4 Total
LSU 0 3 0 6 9
Florida 7 10 10 14 41

Auburn

1 2 3 4 Total
Auburn 0 7 0 0 7
Florida 14 21 0 3 38

Georgia

1 2 3 4 Total
Georgia 3 14 0 6 23
Florida 9 8 10 7 34

Vanderbilt

1 2 3 4 Total
Florida 10 7 19 7 43
Vanderbilt 7 6 0 7 20

South Carolina

1 2 3 4 Total
South Carolina 21 0 0 0 21
Florida 3 28 10 0 41

Florida State

1 2 3 4 Total
Florida 7 0 0 0 7
Florida State 14 0 13 3 30

SEC Championship Game

SEC Championship Game
#18 Auburn vs. #7 Florida
1 234Total
Auburn 0 330 6
• Florida 14 770 28
  • Source:

Miami (Sugar Bowl)

1 2 3 4 Total
Miami 10 3 14 10 37
Florida 7 3 7 3 20

Notable players

  1. Schedule/Results – http://gatorzone.com/sched.php?sport=footb&curyearb=2000&submita=1
  2. Roster – http://gatorzone.com/football/bios.php?year=2000
  3. Rankings – http://www.collegefootballpoll.com/polls_1936_present.html
  4. Statistics – http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/stats/2000/ffateamstats.html

See also

References

  1. ↑ University of Florida Sports Information Department. "Florida 2000 Media Guide" (PDF). floridagators.com. University Athletic Association, Inc. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  2. ↑ 2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine., University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, p. 112 (2015). Retrieved August 14, 2015.
  3. ↑ GatorZone.com, Football, History, Florida Football 2000. Retrieved August 14, 2015.
  4. ↑ USA Today

Bibliography

  • 2009 Southeastern Conference Football Media Guide, Florida Year-by-Year Records, Southeastern Conference, Birmingham, Alabama, p. 60 (2009).
  • 2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide, University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida (2015).
  • Carlson, Norm, University of Florida Football Vault: The History of the Florida Gators, Whitman Publishing, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia (2007). ISBN 0-7948-2298-3.
  • Golenbock, Peter, Go Gators! An Oral History of Florida's Pursuit of Gridiron Glory, Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, Florida (2002). ISBN 0-9650782-1-3.
  • Hairston, Jack, Tales from the Gator Swamp: A Collection of the Greatest Gator Stories Ever Told, Sports Publishing, LLC, Champaign, Illinois (2002). ISBN 1-58261-514-4.
  • McCarthy, Kevin M., Fightin' Gators: A History of University of Florida Football, Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (2000). ISBN 978-0-7385-0559-6.
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