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The Florida Gators football team represents the University of Florida in the sport of American football. The Florida Gators compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They play their home games in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium (popularly known as "The Swamp") on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. The Gators have won three national championships and eight SEC titles in the 108-season history of their varsity football program. == Overview == 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 current campus in Gainesville. The Gators football program has since evolved from its humble beginnings and has achieved notable successes. The Gators 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. The Gators have had an on-campus home field since the beginning of the football program. Since 1930, their home field has been Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at Florida Field. The stadium was known simply as "Florida Field" until 1989, when the name was extended to honor Ben Hill Griffin, an alumnus of the University of Florida and a major benefactor of its sports programs. During the 1990s, football coach Steve Spurrier referred to the stadium as "the Swamp". The nickname quickly became popular and has been widely used to refer to the facility ever since. Since 1906, twenty-five different men have served as the head coach of the Florida Gators, including three who were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame for their coaching success The first head coach was Pee Wee Forsythe in 1906; the 2015 season will be the first for the twenty-fifth head coach, Jim McElwain. In the early years of the program, Florida was a member of Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association and then the Southern Conference. In 1932, the University of Florida was one of the founding members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and it is currently one of fourteen member institutions. The Florida Gators football team has competed in the SEC Eastern Division since the league began divisional play in 1992. Florida plays an eight-game SEC football schedule. Six of these contests pit the Gators against the other members of the SEC Eastern Division: Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri and Vanderbilt. The conference schedule is filled out with an annual game against Louisiana State and one additional foe from the SEC Western Division on a rotating basis. (Until 2003, the Gators also played Auburn every season.) Key conference rivalries include the Florida–Georgia game that is played annually in Jacksonville, Florida (usually around Halloween), the Florida–Tennessee rivalry (usually in mid-September), and the inter-divisional Florida–LSU rivalry with their permanent SEC Western Division foe (in early to mid-October). In addition to their conference foes, the Gators have played in-state rival Florida State every year since 1958, usually facing off in the last game of the regular season. The two teams' emergence as perennial football powers in the 1980s and 1990s helped build the Florida–Florida State rivalry into a game that has often held national title implications. Before 1988, in-state rival Miami was also an annual opponent, but due to expanded conference schedules, the Florida–Miami rivalry has been renewed only three times in the regular season and twice in bowl games since 1988. The remaining dates on Florida's regular season schedule are filled with various non-conference opponents that vary from year to year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Florida Gators football」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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