Sunshine Showdown: What to watch for between Florida – Florida State

For just the second time since 2009, the teams will meet as ranked opponents – the 10-1 Gators No. 12 and 9-2 Seminoles No. 13 in the College Football Playoff rankings.

With FSU holding a 3-0 lead midway through the second quarter, Kerr provided a target for a rolling, scrambling Sean Maguire and caught a 1-yard touchdown pass on fourth-and-goal that gave the Seminoles a two-score advantage.

Florida must re-ignite its offense, which has produced 53 points and turned the ball over eight times the last three games, while finding a way to contain Florida State’s Dalvin Cook.

Maguire’s lone blunder resulted in Florida’s lone points, a safety when he was sacked and fumbled and recovered the ball in the end zone. Had the Gators beaten FSU and Alabama in the SEC Championship, the Gators would’ve had as strong a case as any one-loss team to make it into the top four. The Seminoles probably locked up a spot in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl on December 31 in Atlanta.

Fans (of the Gators and rival teams) often imply that Florida’s history only stretches back to 1990, and the hiring of Steve Spurrier; if it did, this would be unequivocally the worst month of offense in Florida history, and I’d say it’s inarguably the worst month of offense, adjusting for context, of the Gators’ modern era.

Dorian Finney-Smith scored a season-high 23 points, John Egbunu notched his first double-double of the season and Florida beat Florida Gulf Coast 70-50 Friday night.

He was inaccurate and indecisive for the fourth consecutive week.

“You need to look a little bit at me and what I’m asking him to do as well, and trying to push the envelope a little bit”, McElwain said.

What has been far from unbelievable is the recent play of the Florida offense, and in particular the performance of quarterback Treon Harris, who is coming off another poor outing.

The Gators (10-2) announced the suspension about 75 minutes before kickoff.

Florida live stream online and televised 2015 NCAA football game starts up Saturday evening in a classic rivalry between teams from the “Sunshine State”.

“He made a choice”, McElwain said of Robinson on Monday. He was suspended for the 2014 season opener against Idaho and twice in 2013. It’s a team game, in all three phases you’re responsible. “The fact that it was against the Gators makes it pretty good, too”. Hardin also missed a 51-yard attempt on the first half’s final play.

Florida State had considerably fewer issues. Travis Rudolph and Kermit Whitfield have combined for 1,383 receiving yards and 12 touchdowns while Jesus Wilson has 45 receptions.

Fisher said Cook’s production in the fourth quarter in wearing the UF defense down was typical of the season the sophomore from Miami has had.

Cook capped a four-play, 52-yard drive with a 15-yard touchdown run with 6:15 to play to seal the win. The thing I remember most about all FSU weeks is playing the Warchant music doing practices and guys just excited. During close wins against Vanderbilt and FAU and the FSU loss, Harris completed 49.4 percent of his throws (39 of 79) and had two touchdown throws and four turnovers. The Seminoles padded the lead in the third quarter, getting a 51-yard field goal from Aguayo.

“We just gave [Cook] that many opportunities”.

The biggest came when Maguire rolled right on fourth down, threw across his body and found Jeremy Kerr between two defenders in the end zone.

“I think we’re going to talk about it today”, McGee said.