Gator Country

Florida center Patric Young will have his hands full with a talented Kentucky frontline coming to the O'Connell Center on Tuesday. / Gator Country file photo by Curtiss Bryant

Some rivalries are born out of regional proximity, with schools being forced into an arranged marriage simply due to location.

For Florida and Kentucky however, their increasingly fierce rivalry features two schools which sit more than 700 miles apart. The No. 7 Gators have recently emerged as the most legitimate threat to No. 25 Kentucky's SEC reign, a run which went unchallenged for years.

The two programs have participated in a decade-long battle of tug-of-war for conference supremacy, with neither school eager to relinquish its grip of the frail rope that is the SEC. Rather, both teams have continually changed positions atop the SEC, with Kentucky recently emerging as the conference's best.

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