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1991 Florida Gators football team

1991 Florida Gators football
SEC champion
Sugar Bowl, L 28–39 v. Notre Dame
Conference Southeastern Conference
Ranking
Coaches No. 8
AP No. 7
1991 record 10–2 (7–0 1st SEC)
Head coach Steve Spurrier (2nd year)
Defensive coordinator Ron Zook (1st year)
Captain Brad Culpepper
Cal Dixon
Tim Paulk
Home stadium Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
Seasons
« 1990 1992 »
1991 SEC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#7 Florida $ 7 0 0     10 2 0
#5 Alabama 6 1 0     11 1 0
#14 Tennessee 5 2 0     9 3 0
#17 Georgia 4 3 0     9 3 0
Mississippi State 4 3 0     7 5 0
LSU 3 4 0     5 6 0
Vanderbilt 3 4 0     5 6 0
Auburn 2 5 0     5 6 0
Ole Miss 1 6 0     5 6 0
Kentucky 0 7 0     3 8 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
#4 Tennessee at #10 Florida
1 2 3 4 Total
Tennessee 2 10 3 3 18
Florida 7 14 7 7 35
  • Date: Saturday, October 12
  • Location: Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Gainesville, Florida
  • Game attendance: 85,165
  • Television network: ESPN
#6 Florida vs. #23 Georgia
1 2 3 4 Total
Florida 7 21 3 14 45
Georgia 3 3 7 0 13
  • Date: Saturday, November 9
  • Location: Gator Bowl, Jacksonville, Florida
  • Game attendance: 81,769
#3 Florida State at #5 Florida
1 2 3 4 Total
Florida St 0 3 0 6 9
Florida 0 7 7 0 14
  • Date: Saturday, November 30
  • Location: Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Gainesville, Florida
  • Game attendance: 85,461
  • Television network: ABC

The 1991 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1991 college football season. The season was Steve Spurrier's second as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. The Gators were led by quarterback Shane Matthews and first-team All-American defensive tackle Brad Culpepper.

Spurrier's 1991 Florida Gators compiled the first-ever ten-win season in program history, an overall record of 10–2 and a perfect SEC record of 7–0.

Primary source: 2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide.

The season opened with a 59–21 victory over the San Jose State Spartans.

The Gators defeated Alabama, 35–0. Spurrier treasured the wins against the Crimson Tide: "Those victories early – '90, '91 – really got us started there at Florida ..."

The 1991 season also included a disappointing 38–21 road loss to the seventeenth-ranked Syracuse Orangemen in the Carrier Dome. As of 2015, that game is still the most recent non-conference road game for the Gators played outside the state of Florida.

The Gators had a dominating confidence win over the twenty-first-ranked Mississippi State Bulldogs, 29–7.

Florida blanked the LSU Tigers 16–0.

The Gators defeated the fourth-ranked Tennessee Volunteers 35–18.

Florida beat Northern Illinois 41–10 .

The Auburn Tigers fell to Florida 31–10.

The Gators defeated rival and twenty-third-ranked Georgia Bulldogs 45–13.


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