Primetime Drama
| First meeting | September 25, 1937 LSU 19, Florida 0 |
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| Latest meeting | November 19, 2016 Florida 16, LSU 10 |
| Next meeting | October 7, 2017 in Gainesville |
| Statistics | |
| Meetings total | 62 |
| All-time series | Florida leads, 32–28–3 |
| Largest victory | Florida, 58–3 (1993) |
| Longest win streak | Florida, 9 (1988–96) |
| Current win streak | Florida, 1 (2016–present) |
The Florida–LSU football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Florida Gators football team of the University of Florida and LSU Tigers football team of Louisiana State University. Although both universities were founding members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in December 1932, the Gators and Tigers did not meet on the gridiron until 1937, and have been annual opponents only since 1971. When the SEC instituted divisional play in 1992, Florida was placed in the SEC Eastern Division and LSU in the Western Division, and Florida and LSU were selected as permanent cross-division rivals. The Gators and Tigers have combined to win five national championships and eleven SEC titles over the past two decades.
Florida leads the series 32–28–3. The longest winning streak in the series is held by Florida, with nine victories from 1988–96. LSU's longest winning streak is four, from 1977–80.
The visiting team in the series has been unusually successful in recent years. Since 2001, LSU has a 4–3 record at the Swamp, while Florida is 4–5 at Tiger Stadium. Both the Gators and Tigers have won two national championships each during that time period and boasted impressive home records against other opponents.
Sources: 2011 Florida Gators Football Media Guide,2011 LSU Football Media Guide, and College Football Data Warehouse.
Throughout the first half of the 1960 game, in which the Tigers were favored in Baton Rouge, LSU quarterback Jimmy Field effectively moved the ball time and again using plays from his wristband. But in the second quarter, with LSU up 10–0, the Gators sent a nine-man blitz against Field. He never saw it coming, and a sea of Gators piled on top of him. When he came out of the mass of bodies, his wristband was gone. The Gators then held Field to just 12 yards passing in the second half, with a lone first down. The Gators came back to win 13–10, and after the game a Gator coach gave the wristband to an official, saying one of his players had found it on the field.
During the buildup to the 1964 game in Baton Rouge, LSU was a Sugar Bowl favorite. Florida, though unranked, was led by an up-and-coming young player (and future Heisman Trophy winner) named Steve Spurrier. Then, after being delayed several weeks to the season finale due to Hurricane Hilda, the game ended up being anti-climactic with the Gators rolling to a 20–6 win over the No. 7 Tigers. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that it was Spurrier's first win over LSU – the first of a long win streak that he would have over the Tigers as a player and head coach.
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