The Gator News and World Report: Keys To A Gator Victory; Gators Get Commit Too; Harvin to get more involved; Secondary aims to right ship; Antwine, Davis on travel roster; Stadther to start in place of injured Mitchell; Urban Meyer, Gators try to keep national title in sights after last week’s loss to Ole Miss and more…
Gators vs. Razorbacks: The Ultimate Preview Gators by 30, folks. Florida offense gets back on track and defense easily handles Arkansas’ short-pass-happy attack, boosting all the momentum for one of the biggest games of the year—Florida-LSU next week in The Swamp.
Keys To A Gator Victory; Gators Get Commit Too Each week AM 850 sports gives you our “Keys To Victory” for the Florida football team; this week, the Gators play at Arkansas. AM 850 has live coverage of the game starting at 9:30am with the First And Ten pregame show.
The Fearless Friday Forecast We were 6-4 last week and some of those losses really hurt. I wasn’t surprised that Alabama beat Georgia. I was very surprised that the Crimson Tide led 31-0 at halftime. Double ouch if you picked the Bulldogs at home.
Click here to find out more! Text size: increase text sizedecrease text size The shine is off Tebow’s Heisman Florida quarterback Tim Tebow didn’t even make the top five of the Rocky Mountain News’ weekly Heisman Trophy poll this week. He was listed among “others receiving votes.”
Razorbacks report Arkansas works on better fit FAYETTEVILLE — One critique of Arkansas’ troubles the past two weeks has been that its personnel doesn’t yet fit Bobby Petrino’s schemes.
ARKANSAS VS. NO. 12 FLORIDA : The taming of Tebow FAYETTEVILLE – Tim Tebow made the cover of Sports Illustrated this week, but not the way you’d expect for the reigning Heisman Trophy winner.
Petrino’s track record says he will succeed at Arkansas Forgive me for mentioning a former
Arkansas coach. That seems to be a crime around these parts these days. But one of Nolan Richardson’s favorite sayings seems mighty appropriate right now for the state of the Razorbacks football program.
Harvin to get more involved Forget Percy Harvin’s ridiculous numbers against Mississippi, his mistakes are what stuck out.
Secondary aims to right ship Coming into the 2008 season, there were questions about whether the Florida secondary could play consistently enough to keep the team in BCS title contention.
Antwine, Davis on travel roster Twelfth-ranked Florida could have more help on the defensive front this Saturday at Arkansas.
Stadther to start in place of injured Mitchell FAYETTEVILLE — For Saturday’s 11:30 a.m. game against 12th-ranked SEC rival Florida first-year Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino’s first wish is making a second-quarter speech he’s never had cause to deliver to the Razorbacks.
Urban Meyer, Gators try to keep national title in sights after last week’s loss to Ole Miss GAINESVILLE – This, the rallying cry, is the time when Urban Meyer makes his money.The aftermath of a devastating loss welcomes Creative Motivation 101, of which Meyer supposedly has a doctorate.
Miles also points to officials BATON ROUGE — LSU coach Les Miles agrees with safety Chad Jones that it would help the pass defense if the Tigers’ coaching staff got its plays and substitutions in quicker, but he also said game officials need to do a better job.
Gators regroup, hope to rebound against Arkansas GAINESVILLE — Florida receiver Percy Harvin has watched Saturday’s 31-30 loss to Mississippi half a dozen times already.
UF star’s apology accepted Florida junior quarterback Tim Tebow made national news with his emotional apology following a 31-30 loss to Ole Miss last Saturday. Here’s his take on what has happened after his statements:
Two to make debut for UF Two unlikely names will be on this weekend’s travel roster for No. 13 Florida (3-1, 1-1 Southeastern Conference) when it heads to Fayetteville, Ark., for a matchup with Arkansas (2-2, 0-1 SEC).
Palmetto’s Johnson wants to be a Gator Rather than playing the waiting game, Kedric Johnson decided he’d rather play for a national championship.
Parity makes picks harder They say — they being keen observers of the game like the ESPN guys, SI.com bloggers and the dude at the convenience store — that the new clock rules are turning college football into the NFL with its precisely timed windows to squeeze a game into every weekend.
Calathes prepared for leadership role After a summer playing basketball throughout Europe, Florida guard Nick Calathes tasted new foods and learned different cultures.
Gators get commitment at defensive end Florida received the 11th commitment of its 2009 recruiting class Thursday night in Palmetto, Fla., defensive end Kedric Johnson.
Gator fans: Here’s best, cheapest route to Ark. Like a football player rushing for the end zone, University of Florida Gator fans planning on making the drive to see this weekend’s game in Arkansas should make sure they don’t zig when they should have zagged.
WR Carl Moore ready to play his part for Gators Junior-college transfer WR Carl Moore has said there was no hiding he “didn’t know anything” when he first enrolled in the spring. Moore said he was just “running around” without any real precision in his routes.
Hog call cheers up Arkansas At Florida, fans urge Gators players to get up and go.