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Florida football

Florida Gators football
2017 Florida Gators football team
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First season 1906
Athletic director Scott Stricklin
Head coach Jim McElwain
2nd year, 19–8 (.704)
Stadium Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
Field Steve Spurrier-Florida Field
Seating capacity 88,548
Field surface Grass
Location Gainesville, Florida
NCAA division Division I FBS
Conference Southeastern Conference (SEC)
Division Eastern
Past conferences Independent (1906–1911)
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1912–1921)
Southern Conference (1922–1932)
All-time record 710–404–40 (.633)
Bowl record 22–21 (.512)
Claimed nat'l titles 3 (1996, 2006, 2008)
National finalist 1 (1995)
Conference titles 8 (1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2006, 2008)
Division titles 14 (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2003*, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012*, 2015, 2016)
Heisman winners 3 (Steve Spurrier, Danny Wuerffel, Tim Tebow)
Consensus All-Americans 32
Current uniform
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Colors Orange and Blue
         
Fight song "The Orange and Blue"
Mascot Albert and Alberta
Marching band Pride of the Sunshine
Primary rivals Florida State Seminoles (rivalry)
Georgia Bulldogs (rivalry)
LSU Tigers (rivalry)
Tennessee Volunteers (rivalry)
Website FloridaGators.com

The Florida Gators football program represents the University of Florida in American college football. Florida competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They play their home games in Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium (nicknamed "The Swamp") on the university's Gainesville campus. The Gators have won three national championships and eight SEC titles in the 108-season history of Florida's varsity football program.

The University of Florida (then known as the University of the State of Florida) fielded its first official varsity football team in the fall of 1906, when the newly consolidated institution moved from its temporary location in Lake City to its present campus in Gainesville. The Florida football program has evolved from its humble beginnings and achieved notable successes. They have played in forty bowl games; won three national championships (1996, 2006 and 2008) and eight Southeastern Conference championships (1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2006 and 2008), and produced eighty-nine first-team All-Americans, forty-six National Football League (NFL) first-round draft choices, and three Heisman Trophy winners.


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