The Florida Gators football team represents the University of Florida, which is based in Gainesville, Florida. The team plays their home games in their on-campus stadium facility of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, which is also known as "The Swamp." The school plays in the East Division of the Southeastern Conference of the NCAA.http://www.gatorzone.com/football/

After serving as head coach since 2005, Urban Meyer announced on December 8, 2010, his plans to step down as the head football coach. Meyer, who took a leave of absence from the team in early 2010, said the decision was based on needing "to put my focus on my family and life away from the field."http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/40571605/ns/sports-college_football/

The Florida Gators defeated the Oklahoma Sooners to win the BCS Championship Game on January 8, 2009.http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3444571

There have been three Heisman Trophy winners, Steve Spurrier in 1966, Danny Wuerffel in 1996 and Tim Tebow in 2007, to play for the Florida Gators. Tebow was the first sophomore player ever to win the award.http://www.heisman.com/index.php/heismanWinners#winners-year The school has also won three national championships. The first was in 1996 when Spurrier was the head coach while the second in 2006 and third in 2008 came under head coach Urban Meyer.http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/sec/florida/championships.php

The Gators have three principal rivals, Tennessee and Georgia, whom they play every October in what is unofficially called the Worlds Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party in Jacksonville, and Florida State.http://bleacherreport.com/articles/152065-floridas-top-5-football-rivalries

Among the former players in the history of the program include Jack Youngblood, Wes Chandler, Cris Collinsworth, Emmitt Smith, Wilber Marshall, Lomas Brown, Neal Anderson, Jevon Kearse, Trace Armstrong, Lito Sheppard, Fred Taylor and John Reaves.http://espn.go.com/nfl/college/_/letter/f