1992 Florida Gators football team

1992 Florida Gators football
SEC Eastern Division champions
SEC Championship Game, L 21–28 vs. Alabama
Gator Bowl, W 27–10 v. North Carolina State
Conference	Southeastern Conference
Division	Eastern Division
Ranking
Coaches	No. 11
AP	No. 10
1992 record	9–4 (6–2 1st East SEC)
Head coach	Steve Spurrier
Defensive coordinator	Ron Zook
Captain	Shane Matthews Carlton Miles
Home stadium	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium

1992 SEC football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Eastern Division
#10 Florida xy	6	–	2	–	0	9	–	4	–	0
#8 Georgia x	6	–	2	–	0	10	–	2	–	0
#12 Tennessee	5	–	3	–	0	9	–	3	–	0
South Carolina	3	–	5	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Kentucky	2	–	6	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
Vanderbilt	2	–	6	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
Western Division
#1 Alabama x$	8	–	0	–	0	13	–	0	–	0
#16 Ole Miss	5	–	3	–	0	9	–	3	–	0
#23 Mississippi State	4	–	4	–	0	7	–	5	–	0
Arkansas	3	–	4	–	1	3	–	7	–	1
Auburn	2	–	5	–	1	5	–	5	–	1
LSU	1	–	7	–	0	2	–	9	–	0
Championship: Alabama 28, Florida 21
$ – Conference champion x – Division champion/co-champions y – Championship game participant Rankings from AP Poll

The 1992 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1992 college football season. The season was Steve Spurrier's third as the Florida Gators football team's head coach, and the wins were harder to come by as the star-studded senior classes from 1990 and 1991 had graduated. The Gators racked up six tough Southeastern Conference (SEC) wins over the Kentucky Wildcats (35–19), LSU Tigers (28–21), Auburn Tigers (24–9), seventh-ranked Georgia Bulldogs (26–24), South Carolina Gamecocks (14–9), and Vanderbilt Commodores (41–21). They also suffered two crushing SEC losses to the fourteenth-ranked Tennessee Volunteers (14–31) in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the twenty-fourth-ranked Mississippi State Bulldogs (6–30) on a Thursday night in Starkville, Mississippi.

The Gators' non-conference schedule included a homecoming victory over the Louisville Cardinals (31–17), and another surprisingly difficult win over Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles (24–20). They closed their regular season with a road loss to the third-ranked Florida State Seminoles (24–45) in Tallahassee.

The Gators finished their SEC schedule with a 6–2 conference record, placing first among the six teams of the new SEC Eastern Division and earning a berth in the first-ever SEC Championship Game in Birmingham, Alabama. Spurrier's scrappy young Gators, however, fell short against the SEC Western Division champion, the second-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide (21–28). The Crimson Tide would later defeat the Miami Hurricanes in the Sugar Bowl to win the 1992 national championship.

Spurrier's 1992 Florida Gators posted a 9–4 overall record, concluding their season with a victory over the twelfth-ranked North Carolina State Wolfpack (27–10) in the Gator Bowl, and ranking tenth in the final AP Poll.^[1]

Schedule and results

Date	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
9–12–1992	Kentucky	No. 4	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, Florida	JPS	W 35–19	84,553
9–19–1992	No. 14 Tennessee	No. 4	Neyland Stadium • Knoxville, Tennessee	ABC	L 14–31	97,137
10–1–1992	No. 24 Mississippi State	No. 13	Scott Field • Starkville, Mississippi	ESPN	L 6–30	38,886
10–10–1992	Louisiana State	No. 23	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, Florida	JPS	W 28–21	83,401
10–17–1992	Auburn	No. 23	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, Florida	ABC	W 24–9	84,098
10–24–1992	Louisville*	No. 20	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, Florida (HC)		W 31–17	84,476
10–31–1992	No. 7 Georgia	No. 20	Gator Bowl • Jacksonville, Florida	ABC	W 26–24	82,429
11–7–1992	Southern Mississippi*	No. 14	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, Florida		W 24–20	82,882
11–14–1992	South Carolina	No. 11	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, Florida	JPS	W 14–9	84,777
11–21–1992	Vanderbilt	No. 9	Vanderbilt Stadium • Nashville, Tennessee	JPS	W 41–21	32,279
11–28–1992	No. 3 Florida State*	No. 6	Doak Campbell Stadium • Tallahassee, Florida	ABC	L 24–45	68,311
12–5–1992	No. 2 Alabama	No. 12	Legion Field • Birmingham, AL (SEC Championship)	ABC	L 21–28	83,091
12–31–1992	No. 12 North Carolina State*	No. 14	Gator Bowl • Jacksonville, Florida (Gator Bowl)	TBS	W 27–10	71,233
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game.

Primary source: 2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide.^[1]

References

1 2 2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide, University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, p. 107 (2015). Retrieved August 16, 2015.

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