1992 Florida Gators football team

The 1992 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1992 NCAA Division I-A 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 Miss 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 later defeated 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

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Source
September 12	JPS	W 35–19	84,553	[2]
September 19	at No. 14 Tennessee	No. 4	Neyland Stadium Knoxville, TN (rivalry)	ABC	L 14–31	97,137	[3]
October 1	at No. 24 Mississippi State	No. 13	Scott Field Starkville, MS	ESPN	L 6–30	38,886	[4]
October 10	LSU	No. 23	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Gainesville, FL (rivalry)	JPS	W 28–21	83,401	[5]
October 17	Auburn	No. 23	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Gainesville, FL (rivalry)	ABC	W 24–9	84,098	[6]
October 24	Louisville*	No. 20	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Gainesville, FL		W 31–17	84,476	[7]
October 31	vs. No. 7 Georgia	No. 20	Gator Bowl Stadium Jacksonville, FL (rivalry)	ABC	W 26–24	82,429	[8]
November 7	Southern Miss*	No. 14	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Gainesville, FL		W 24–20	82,882	[9]
November 14	South Carolina	No. 11	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Gainesville, FL	JPS	W 14–9	84,777	[10]
November 21	at Vanderbilt	No. 9	Vanderbilt Stadium Nashville, TN	JPS	W 41–21	32,279	[11]
November 28	at No. 3 Florida State*	No. 6	Doak Campbell Stadium Tallahassee, FL (rivalry)	ABC	L 24–45	68,311	[12]
December 5	vs. No. 2 Alabama	No. 12	Legion Field Birmingham, AL (SEC Championship Game, rivalry)	ABC	L 21–28	83,091	[13]
December 31	vs. No. 12 NC State*	No. 14	Gator Bowl Stadium Jacksonville, FL (Gator Bowl)	TBS	W 27–10	71,233	[14]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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Roster

1992 Florida Gators football team roster
Players			Coaches
Offense Pos. # Name Class QB 12 Terry Dean So WR 1 Jack Jackson RFr WR 22 Willie Jackson Jr OL 69 Brian Fisher Jr QB 9 Shane Matthews Sr RB 33 Errict Rhett Jr OL 73 Jim Watson Jr OL 50 Gantt Crouch Jr OL 76 Ryan Taylor So	Defense Pos. # Name Class LB 57 Myrick Anderson Sr DE 57 Kevin Carter So DT 94 William Gaines Jr DB 10 Monty Grow Jr DE 99 Mike Karr Sr DT 61 Ellis Johnson So CB 4 Del Speer Sr DB 2 Will White FS 20 Sammy McCorkle  Fr	Special teams Pos. # Name Class	Head coach Steve Spurrier Coordinators/assistant coaches Legend (C) Team captain (S) Suspended (I) Ineligible Injured Redshirt

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