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 wins over the Kentucky Wildcats, LSU Tigers, Auburn Tigers, seventh-ranked Georgia Bulldogs, South Carolina Gamecocks, and Vanderbilt Commodores. They also suffered two crushing SEC losses to the fourteenth-ranked Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the twenty-fourth-ranked Mississippi State Bulldogs on a Thursday night in Starkville, Mississippi.
The Gators' non-conference schedule included a homecoming victory over the Louisville Cardinals, and another surprisingly difficult win over . They closed their regular season with a road loss to the third-ranked Florida State Seminoles 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. 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 NC State Wolfpack in the Gator Bowl, and ranking tenth in the final AP Poll.Schedule
Primary source: 2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide.Roster
