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Georgia hired Mark Richt in December 2000. Only once since have the Bulldogs needed a new football coach. Florida, the only SEC East program with the resources to match Georgia’s, just launched its sixth search of the 21st Century.
Gator fans can still brag about national championships – Florida has won three since the Bulldogs won in 1980 – but that’s where the strutting ends. Florida finished 2-6 in SEC play. Eleven months after his Gators graced the SEC championship game, Dan Mullen is out of work.
Georgia has won the SEC East four of the past five seasons. Florida has won it three times since 2010, when Urban Meyer embarked on his first retirement. The Gators haven’t reached the College Football Playoff. Georgia made the field in 2017 and just missed in 2018. Unless the Bulldogs contrive to lose to Georgia Tech, they’ll make it again this year.
This is Smart’s sixth season in Athens. His teams have lost nine games over five years. Florida has lost nine games since Dec. 11, 2020. Remember when the Gators thumped Georgia last season, prompting some – that’s my hand you see raised – to declare they’d caught and passed the Bulldogs? It was but another in a series of false Florida dawns.
Florida is in search of its third coach since Georgia hired Smart.
Georgia hired Mark Richt in December 2000. Only once since have the Bulldogs needed a new football coach. Florida, the only SEC East program with the resources to match Georgia’s, just launched its sixth search of the 21st Century.
Gator fans can still brag about national championships – Florida has won three since the Bulldogs won in 1980 – but that’s where the strutting ends. Florida finished 2-6 in SEC play. Eleven months after his Gators graced the SEC championship game, Dan Mullen is out of work.
Georgia has won the SEC East four of the past five seasons. Florida has won it three times since 2010, when Urban Meyer embarked on his first retirement. The Gators haven’t reached the College Football Playoff. Georgia made the field in 2017 and just missed in 2018. Unless the Bulldogs contrive to lose to Georgia Tech, they’ll make it again this year.
This is Smart’s sixth season in Athens. His teams have lost nine games over five years. Florida has lost nine games since Dec. 11, 2020. Remember when the Gators thumped Georgia last season, prompting some – that’s my hand you see raised – to declare they’d caught and passed the Bulldogs? It was but another in a series of false Florida dawns.
Florida is in search of its third coach since Georgia hired Smart.
