And maybe that’s what had gone missing since Urban Meyer: That sharp sense of immediacy. That notion that this Saturday matters — and if there isn’t a game, well, let’s go find one.

One solution would be to expand the playoffs and utilize more of the bowls as second-round games.

Slaughter was named a finalist for the Rimington Award on Monday and was also named to the Coaches’ first team All-SEC list on Tuesday.

Golden keeps promising — only now it’s down to precise math. As he quipped afterward, his boys are “five percent away.” At this point, he’s basically a calculator in a quarter-zip.

Xavian Lee had his best game as a Gator against UConn (Photo by Chris Spears) NEW YORK – That elusive complete game that Todd Golden knows the Florida Gators (5-4) are capable of playing will have to wait. Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden was another one of those nights when the Gators flashed No. 18 Florida #Gators fall to 5-4 after 77-73 loss to No. 5 UConn in MSG. UF is playing the same game every time out vs. quality competition.   Florida’s chance to win this game

Freshman Nyadieng Yiech notches first career double-double. By Loren Meadows, GatorBaitMedia.com , Host of the Lowdown with Loren Meadows Nyadieng "Nidi" Yiech (UAA photo) If Liv McGill is Kobe Bryant, and Laila Reynolds is Lamar Odom, then freshman Nyadieng “Nidi” Yiech is starting to look like the Ron Artest of the triangle that is the Gator women’s basketball team. The Gators got all they wanted from a physical South Alabama team Sunday but were able to put away the Jaguar

Early national reaction has been positive, with analysts praising Sumrall for targeting proven coordinators rather than simply importing his entire Tulane staff,

Tommy Haugh could be SEC Player of the Year (Photo by Chris Spears) The best basketball team in the Southeastern Conference already has three losses and will have the perilous assignment of taking on a really good UConn team in Madison Square Garden tomorrow. Should we be worried?   Nope.   The Florida Gators (5-3) may have slipped in the rankings (No. 18 in both polls), but that’s because of the three losses. Closer look shows the Gators have lost the three by a combined 11

“If our lives were that simple we’d live in the past “If the phone don’t, ring it’s me” – Jimmy Buffett.   Notre Dame sat by the phone waiting but it never rang Sunday. That’s because the College Football Playoff Committee did what Domers think is the unthinkable and decided that 3-loss Alabama belongs in the tournament and Notre Dame needs to sit this one out. In other words, the CFP folks told Notre Dame that the college football universe doesn’t revolve around all that So

The “ESPN Cartel” — a label I helped coin way back in 2006 to describe the network’s soft power over college football — has never been more visible than now.

It’s almost enough to make me into a football Hoosiers fan, but I still got this little Tulane squad to root home and a guy named Sumrall who’s working double overtime'\.

Jon Sumrall, Florida’s new football coach, proved right away that he’s one of those rare birds-turned-Gator.