Florida football is not falling apart. It is just the first poor soul to go through airport security in this new era of college football, taking off its shoes and belt while everyone else in the SEC is still standing in line pretending nothing is wrong,

Micah Handlogten finishes with a dunk (UAA Photo) The Gators (7-4) won a nothing to prove game at the O-Dome Wednesday night. Beating Saint Francis was almost a given, the final margin 102-61 irrelevant. Had Todd Golden played his starters more – none of them played more than 25 minutes – it would have been dial-a-score. To the announced crowd of 9,023 and perhaps the starters watching the last minutes from the bench the most exciting moment came with 42 seconds left when Oli

Xaivian Lee scored 44 points in two games last week (UAA Photo) The next three games – all of them played in the friendly confines of the O-Dome – won’t test 23 rd -ranked Florida but it will give Todd Golden a chance to get on a winning roll prior to the opening of Southeastern Conference play at Missouri on January 3. The Gators (6-4) have played one of the toughest schedules in the country. They’ve lost to No. 1 Arizona, No. 3 Duke and No. 5 UConn by a combined 11 points a

Georgia Tech quarterback Aaron Philo has entered the portal. Is he headed to Gainesville? (Georgia Tech Photo)

(Photo by Chris Spears) Transfers. We knew there would be some as soon as Florida dismissed Billy Napier. We knew there would be more whether the new coach was Lane Kiffin or the eventual new coach, Jon Sumrall. And now, the door to the Heavener Center has begun to revolve and we can only guess how many will elect to seek newer, greener pastures and how many will elect to give the new coach a shot.   You almost wouldn’t know it by the reactions to the announcement that quarte

Lagway arrived with the kind of fanfare that used to make college football seem like Christmas morning in Gainesville.

Xaivian Lee loads up a 3-point shot in the first half against GW (UAA Communications photo) SUNRISE –  Todd Golden has this unwritten rule that there are no apologies necessary whenever the Gators win a basketball game by 10 or more points, no matter the opponent. So, no apologies were forthcoming after 18 th -ranked Florida (6-4) played well enough to knock off the George Washington Revolutionaries (8-4), 80-70, in the annual Orange Bowl Classic at Amerand Bank Arena.    “As

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