From 1991-2002 one of Florida's big 3 schools (Miami, UF and FSU) played in the National Championship game every year except once... in 1997, because of this game.

@1515gator1

4 жыл бұрын

Good!

@sunnyberlin3521

3 жыл бұрын

I try to tell the younger generation today, how it was in the 90's. People just don't get it. P.S. You can count UF/FSU as double in the '97 Sugar Bowl

I was at this game and I thought the Swamp was going to come crumbling down. The noise and atmosphere were incredible. Most exciting college game I've ever witnessed, bar none.

RIP Coach Bowden! You made it a great rivalry.

@ericpackers1700

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a auburn fan but amen

Been a Gator fan for 50 years (can hardly believe its been that long, 😆), think I agree that this was the most electrifying win for GATOR NATION ever... EV---ER!

I was fortunate to be one in the crowd. I was on the alumnus side and don't remember ever sitting down. One of those games that I will remember quite a few details from and so glad Fred Taylor's long runs were included here. Of course I'll never forget Johnson to Green.....

@ericpackers1700

2 жыл бұрын

Must of been like auburn iron bowl loud there or like lsu on a Saturday night

@billclark8241

2 жыл бұрын

@@ericpackers1700 exactly like either one of those.............. on steroids

@erics2739

2 жыл бұрын

@@billclark8241 ur right

There will never be another rivalry like the 1990's with Spurrier vs Bowden/ UF vs FSU - every game had a direct role in the NC picture and those 2 coaches added so much to it - i was lucky to be a student at UF during this period and I was at the stadium for this game - we lost our minds that night!

@ericpackers1700

2 жыл бұрын

Will these schools play games this big ever again only Florida has been relevant

Probably the loudest and most exciting Gator game I've been ever to. The Swamp rocked that night and Gator Nation went nuts. Fans stood in the stands and screamed at the top of their lungs long after the game ended! "It's Great To Be A Florida Gator!"

Fred Taylor was a beast in this game, Florida State had no answer for him.

@ericpackers1700

2 жыл бұрын

The best rb Spurrier had at Florida

I know i'm commenting 9 years after the vid was posted....but goto 13:04...BOTH FSU and Florida players, black and white, most players still in their late teens/early 20s, ...on their knee, bowing their heads, in prayer after the game. Wish we could see more of this today... ^5

@esta7763

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Definitely a scene every fan in the state of Florida needs to see. Yes, it's a heated rivalry. Yes, things got intense. Yes, this had national championship implications. However, at the end of the day, it's a game, and players on both teams are human beings, and need to learn to respect each other as fellow humans, as fellow athletes, and even though they are rivals, need to show great displays of sportsmanship like this scene right here. It's a scene the fans all need to see. I also had this big color picture from 1993 showing Charlie Ward and Danny Wuerffel holding hands in prayer, along with their teammates that I thought was a really great picture everyone needed to see. Even though they are heated rivals, they are all still college athletes, they were able to keep it in perspective and show that both sides can still be together on things much bigger than a football game.

I was 12 years old when this game happened and I was at my tennis lesson in Gainesville early that morning when my brother came up and said, "hey I need to run an errand to pick up something...your UF/FSU ticket!" Still THE greatest gift my brother has ever gotten me!

That was the single happiest night of my life. I remember jumping from the porch at my mom's apartment, running down the street screaming my head off and in tears. I thought for sure FSU was going to kill us that year. Probably the best game football game I have ever seen at any level.

@lewiscastleman9111

Жыл бұрын

🙏💕🙏🌈🌈🌅🥇🏆🏉🦅🎣👍🤗💕🙏…,”(🥇🏆😜🤗👍💕🙏)”!!!,…AMEN…,”ONWARD - GATORS”…!.

Back in the 1990s, this was the game that would decide who played for the National Championship.

I got a whole cup of soda dumped on me at the end of this game..but I didn't care! Best game I ever attended!

Awesome video. So fun to relive a game that I watched as a kid. I went to the UF-FSU games all 4 years I was a student (we went 3-1 against them during my years), but this game was better than them all. Hands down.

I'm an FSU fan but Fred Taylor was on fire

@shawnj1966

6 жыл бұрын

Taylor is the best running back we ever had. Even better than Emmit Smith.

@deandredre-dre5869

6 жыл бұрын

D Boley no he kicked yall ass

@robbie192

5 жыл бұрын

What a great game...those uf fsu wars...hard to describe how intense they were

@Jagnole101

4 жыл бұрын

Yeti tracker 66 Smith had a much better line than Taylor did when he was with Dallas. Taylor did more damage against FSU and actually beat them, going 3-1-2 against them. Smith lost all the years he played FSU. This was the best performance I ever witnessed by a running back against those great FSU teams. Usually we stuffed the run very well.

@bigwillietheb

3 жыл бұрын

@@robbie192 I went to that game thanks to a friend who went to UF he gave me his student ticket for free my voice was gone by halftime but kept on yelling & screaming had a blast

The greatest game ever played in the Swamp thanks Neil

Die hard FSU fan here. This was a great game. Really really great game. Yall played hard out there. Kept us from going to another NC. Great vid.

@mikeschmidt4800

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely one of those games where the coach is telling them all week that if they don't give their all on every snap that they would lose big time. Had they not, that likely would have been the case.

It was a very confusing time to be a Gator. I grew up believing 1-10 was a winning season providing that 1 win came against free shoe U. When they provided our 1st NC with a 52-20 win and ended the year with another 32-29 win I still can't say which way it's more fun to beat them. FANTASTIC GAME

@erics2739

2 жыл бұрын

Doug Johnson a hyped recruit!

Old school baby. That's the way we do it!

@kalebpost20

9 жыл бұрын

I like new school better. New school where UF loses to Georgia Southern and Vanderbilt, and can't even beat FSU when Jamies throws 4 INT's.

@cameronhart7588

9 жыл бұрын

kalebpost20 It was nice seeing FSU get exposed by oregon too. Hope those two years of somewhat success were fun. Now back to a decade long of rebuilding and "we'll get em next years"

@allengreene9954

9 жыл бұрын

Cameron Hart I'm not a FSU fan but them falling off the face of the earth is not going to happen.

@allengreene9954

8 жыл бұрын

+Cameron Hart Plus FSU doesn't rebuild. they reload. Florida does the same thing too.

@tominator028

6 жыл бұрын

Is that why both of you guys just finished for a combined record of 11-13 last year?

I was 13 yes old watching this game I was so nervous I'm from Gainesville area wanted them to win so bad after a down but good season

Still have the program from this game what a game definitely one of the loudest moments in the swamp!

I was there,After we beated No.1 FSU and the whole town went wild and everybody was running on the streets celebrating and giving high fives to the passing motorists and it was crazy and I loved evrybit of it.I can"t wait to see,Fred Taylors son playing this year 2013 and see Kelvin play and I hope he is better than his Dad was and make the Gatornation proud and get us some top Recruits for the 2014 era.Go Gators FSU is Always GatorBait.

I can only imagine what that was like. I lived in Orlando but now I live in Kentucky so I have not got to watch a game in the Swamp EVER. Plus you not only went to the best rivalry of the 9Os, you got to see the best game in the swamp ever. What was it like? I have watched Florida play at UK, Tenn, Vandy, and S. Carolina but not the swamp. Its usually considered the toughest place to play in the country. Swamp and LSU Death Valley are almost universally listed first and second.

CBS at that time was the shit!!!!! Great Sound All Around!!!

@BAYAREA-kd1ig

4 жыл бұрын

Their coverage of the SEC and Big East from 1996-2000 was top notch. In particular their coverage in 1996 and 1997 helped them get the NFL back on CBS starting in 1998.

I love the band sounds!!!

the greatest game ever played in the Swamp

1"48 mark 4th and 3 and the Gators run a reverse pass back to the QB... Gotta love it! Florida goes 80 yds in 3 plays to take the lead and picks off a pass to seal it. Sounded a couple of times like Sean McDonough was delirious with excitement.

@JB-dc4ss

7 жыл бұрын

And people say he is too boring for MNF. No, the MNF games are what's boring. He got to call one of the greatest college games ever and proved that he can translate the excitement. Any of his haters should watch this game

@TheDrRJP

6 жыл бұрын

The Gator Pass was Spurrier's favorite play. However, I never saw so much blown coverage by an FSU team with the players they had as what occurred in that game. Hats off to the Gator receivers, though, for making some spectacular (and sometimes lucky) catches when the defense was all over them.

Always good to see the Florida State Penitentiary lose, and this was one of the best ever.

@larebear1902

7 жыл бұрын

if that's what we are wouldn't your 2 former coaches b4 spurrier you had to run off be students there? wait wern't you bowl ineligible? lmbo at the ufail tards ...

@larebear1902

5 жыл бұрын

@Mason Murphy - was that your ignernt lizard arse shooting an AK-47 at a u. fektard? You guys prove how stupid it is down there with your audacious accusations. Pitiful really ...

@larebear1902

5 жыл бұрын

If only we were as good as Ga. Southern who rolled into the poo puddle and humiliated u. fektards ... LMBO ROTF ... no passes, all runs ... Gator o lineman and receiver blocking/raping each other as the other team scored ... u can't make this stuff up. only u fektards ... put that AK 47 away u. felons ...

This season will be twenty years since this game.

Thank GOD!! Every time we beat Florida just like Saturday it erases this horrible game from my mind! It's always good to beat Florida!

@larebear1902

7 жыл бұрын

i know but it's so routine now they are boring ... it is nice to trounce the sec east champs though.

@Bender2497

5 жыл бұрын

@mother66 Gators curb-stomped a pitiful FSU team this year

go gators love beating fsu when there number 1 in the nation go gators

How many times has a 1, 2x or even 3x defeated SEC team faced off vs an undefeated ACC, Big10, (Big East back then) or one of the Western Conference teams, come in as underdogs, and knocked them off...Like Fred Taylor said at the end their...The competition in the SEC , even way back then, was by far, the toughest in the nation, (Bowl records, and # of players being drafted to the NFL showed this, and continue to show this today) It took the rest of the major sports media 15 years to finally realize just how much better the SEC was, top to bottom than all the other Conferences...FLORIDA's demolition of #1 Ranked and highly favored Ohio State in the 06 BCS National Title Game in Arizona, finally got ESPN and the rest of em to wake up and talk about this...and now, its plenty well established...The best Football in NCAA D1 is played in the SEC...With the SEC having won 11 National Titles from 1992 thru 2015...Bama won it vs a highly favored Miami in 92 (blew them off the field really) and the SEC has won 8 of the last 10 National Titles in NCAA D1 Football...

@larebear1902

7 жыл бұрын

lmbo, yeah real tough with ufelons dropping over 60 on peytons vols and many more blow outs by u felons against the sec only to lose to the Dynasty Inc.

@jacksonflowers2498

6 жыл бұрын

The SEC is a joke. I've never seen one conference take the credit for one team's success more than the SEC. Alabama is the only team worth a shit in the entire conference. Georgia is getting there but everyone knows that they're paying players to go there and when they get hit with sanctions like Ole Miss did they'll be back to being crap again.

@bottling.hobo.

5 жыл бұрын

Jackson Flowers name a better conference. We will wait.

@Bender2497

5 жыл бұрын

@@bottling.hobo. None exists

great commentary!!!

this is what happens when you mess with the gators

think if they had the playoff system back in 97

@Maal7432

8 жыл бұрын

Oh God. Would've been LIT.

@stephensloan334

7 жыл бұрын

JHATDRUMMER1976 except FSU would've still made it

@BAYAREA-kd1ig

4 жыл бұрын

Michigan, Nebraska, Tennessee and Florida State?

@charlesfrison7135

3 жыл бұрын

@@BAYAREA-kd1ig I think the best two teams were Nebraska and FSU that year. With the way WSU hanged tough with Michigan in Rose Bowl i think FSU was a better overall team than WSU and would've beat Michigan imo.

The announcers brag about FSU’s run defense- Florida has long rushing Touchdown

i just hope we have a great season next year.Also i hope kelvin taylor will be our heisman trophy winner. But first we need to build our offense( we really need help on offense). Also we need to keep up our great defense. our defense rank is i the top 5 in the nation

Spurrier never disappoints does he

@shinelife6244

4 жыл бұрын

Except that he never beat fsu in Tallahassee!!!

Where's that Gator chomp now, Janikowski? lolololol

@aristotle736

6 жыл бұрын

jkcrusher18 Sebastian Rapekowski has always been a turbo douche.

@jredenfield

5 жыл бұрын

@@aristotle736 😭😭😭

@jredenfield

5 жыл бұрын

😉

@BAYAREA-kd1ig

4 жыл бұрын

Soon as he did that. You had a feeling Florida St. was gonna lose this game.

@mikeschmidt4800

3 жыл бұрын

I'd be surprised if he remembers after all that personal use rohypnol he was caught with years back. Totally personal use, not a raper.

1997 was a nightmare for FSU against Florida.

Greatest game ever at Florida Field? 1988 vs Montana St. final score 69-0!

The game that cost the 'Noles a shot at the National Title.

@Jagnole101

5 жыл бұрын

We didn’t get a mulligan like UF did in 1996, so we had to settle for top 5 again.

@TheWakeup011

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jagnole101 a 33 point mulligan? Do those even exist?

@Jagnole101

4 жыл бұрын

TheWakeup011 I was 8 and just started watching football....we won the first game, and because of a lame ass grandfathered-in rule where the PAC 10 had to play a Big 10 team...we didn’t end up playing #2 rated Arizona State. Apparently you’re not old enough to remember what happened, jort-wearer

@Jagnole101

4 жыл бұрын

TheWakeup011 then UF had to rely on a last-second drive by OSU to beat ASU, otherwise they wouldn’t have been champs. Gators don’t realize how grateful they should be or realize how insanely lucky this was. Only 2011 Alabama can rival this.

@TheWakeup011

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jagnole101 they don't realize? You sound silly. Of course we realize. Something similar happened in 1993, when#1 FSU lost at #2Notre Dame by seven. FSU needed ND to lose. If ND wins out there is no Natty for your beloved Seminoles, just another close finish. You're familiar with those.... Instead ND loses to BC, which opened the door for FSU to play in the championship game. You should be happy the refs allowed your d lineman to pile up all those late hits on Weurffel in game one.......... Better yet be angry at your secondary, who all became dehydrated at the same time early in the second half of the NC game, leaving with cramps.😂😂😂😂😂😂You can't make this shit up. How could they do something like this to the fans? But hey, this is Free Shoes University, right? I guess you just do it......

I can not imagion what was like what a good game

Our teams need to get their offensive swagger back. Our passing in games against good teams has been god awful for a few years now.

Florida upset both Tennessee and FSU's natty hopes this season. I swear their program exists just to be the obnoxious antagonist of other programs. The last 30 years of sleezy coaches seems to fit well with that role.

I always thought the 07 Gators, from player 2 on down was the nations best team. That #1 (starting QB) is pretty important, though.

War eagle Auburn but I miss these days of this smashmouth rivalry before targeting became a big deal!

This was back when football players had class and respect.

@stupidyutube9

10 жыл бұрын

No it wasn't, social media just hadn't penetrated every aspect of our consciousness yet

@Maal7432

8 жыл бұрын

+stupidyutube9 Exactly!

I hated Travis Mcgriff more then any other gator. Man it was good to be a Noles fan during these years.....

@ericpackers1700

2 жыл бұрын

Like hunter Renfrew

i'm not worried about the running game, we have 3 very good good RB's and the O-line is gonna be better, it's the passing game that's gotta get going, jeff needs to work on his accuracy and his pocket awareness, and we need a WR or 2 to step up, i believe dunbar is gonna be the go to guy, and maybe one of the freshman will make a big impact... the defense isn't gonna be as great as it was last year, but it's still gonna be good..

blasting this on my bluetooth speaking

Oh yeah , well thanks to a good friend I was able to go to that game also, he went to UF & told me he hardly went to home games so he said I'll give you my student ticket & I said how much do you want for it , he said don't worry about it , have a good time, so I went that day & had a blast. & I am a die hard GATOR & an anti FSU.

“BEHIND THE DEFENSE!”

Fred taylor son is going to play for the florida gators in 2013 season

6:05 go Freddie go!!

Even though this was the best rivalry in college football for about a decade, there weren't that many actual great games between the two. It wasn't like FSU-Miami which seemed to come down to the final play every year. It seemed like when FSU and Florida played, the two teams never played their best at the same time. Until this game. Except for this game.

@mccallish2451

8 жыл бұрын

1994? 1995? 1996? 1997?

@TheDrRJP

6 жыл бұрын

1994 was the Choke at Doak. Thanks for mentioning it.

Loved when spurrier cried like a baby and threw his hat and stupid visor, classy coach

I know man. Once both Florida and Florida State come back again, everybody will fear us again. Nobody wanted to play Florida, Florida State or Miami when they were good.

@TheDrRJP

6 жыл бұрын

Speaking of playing Miami, FSU still plays them while the Gators dropped them a long time ago.

they were strong in the middle but they kept letting thier guard down on the right side

Spurrier only beat FSU at home at the swamp in Gainesville, never at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee. Bobby Bowden won several times at the swamp though. Just not this one.

@brodymci8258

4 жыл бұрын

ILovestorms mad cause y’all suck

#21 FTW!!!!

I like to think Zook was in that fight and was one of the coaches having to be restrained.

what about 1998, or 1999, 2003,2013,2014,2015,2016? you don't show those games? or 1989 or 1990 either.

@slimreaper7777

6 жыл бұрын

tranurse How about the 2007 Michigan game?

2 early fumbles but glad the ole ball coach stuck with Taylor.

Should’ve gone for it at the goal line.

@DWF33

2 жыл бұрын

But then we would have missed Janikowski doing the Gator chomp after he made his kick. Karma is a bitch. 😂

"The Greatest Game Ever Played" for Florida, but not for anyone else. Stupid play calling by FSU down at the goal line going with three straight off-tackle runs when a play-action pass to the tight end would've been an easy TD as the Gators had stacked the box. The point differential would have made it FSU 33 Florida 26 and assuming Florida scores again as quickly as before, it would have been interesting to see if Spurrier would go for two for the win or kick for the tie and let the defense try and get the ball back. Since Spurrier had never forgotten the Choke at Doak (which would get my vote as the Greatest Game Ever Played), he would have kicked for the tie. Being tied or ahead by a point would've also changed FSU's offensive strategy during the last 90 seconds knowing that SeaBass could knock a FG through from 50+ yards on in to win it. Now, THAT might have been one of the greatest games ever played.

@Bender2497

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry, this game was EASILY the greatest game ever played. Too bad you were on the losing end of it!

14 -0 next year

🐊🐊🐊 GO GATORS 🐊🐊🐊

We don't have announcers like this anymore......i hate watching Gator football on the SEC NETWORK the announcers aren't invested at all

You're being sarcastic, but it's plausible that Driskel will win the Heisman. Not likely, but plausible. Recently the Heisman winner has be someone that nobody expects in the preseason (Manziel, RGIII, Newton, Ingram, and so on). Also Florida was in both SEC and national championship consideration last season so I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say it will be a while.

6:05 9:42 and 10:58 for the 3 big plays lol

Fred Taylor's son will do this today against FSU!

kelvin taylor starting this year, garuntee you he will break ankles this year. all due respect to matt jones, kelvin taylor should have been starting over him

@shinelife6244

4 жыл бұрын

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣....he was awesome at uf...not...he sure ain't his daddy.

I hate when people say this was a massive upset. Consider the following, fumble fsu runs it back for a free td, another fumble leads to fg, Florida blows 3 point after attempts and misses a chip shot 28 yard fg. Florida more or less handed fsu 16 points and STILL won lol. Any time you fuck up that much in opponent that is better than you is going to 100% Beat you

FT ALL DAY!!!!!!!!

Fred Taylor was a fucking problem.

@acerrspage4205

7 жыл бұрын

Only if you were s Free Shoes University Fan..or the FSU Defensive Coordinator...lol....

@acerrspage4205

7 жыл бұрын

really, Fred Taylor was not the problem in that game....UF's Offensive Line, and Spurrier's playcalling with the offense which routinely caught us Gator Fans off Guard with his calls in that game...That was probably the best playcalling and play selection in all of Spurriers time in Florida...

@larebear1902

7 жыл бұрын

univ felons shoulda got deATH PENALTY IN THE LATE 80's - dirty gators caught twice and had to run their u felon coach out ... again.

war eagle 🦅 iron bowl intensity!

MF Jacques Green

9:29 biggest mistakes in college football history

that"s not the greatest game in the history but watch my football games not on this account the name is ACCDigitalNetwork

Spear chuckers suck...and I’m not even a gator.