The text you you've all been waiting for 🐊🏈🐊
(posted a few days late... but those on the text list got it right on time)
The day before game day...
UF v UMass
1. This will be the first matchup in history between these two teams.
The only time UMass has played an SEC team, it lost (0-3 series to Vandy).
This year they've added South Carolina and Mississippi State to their schedule doubling their SEC appearances.
2. Reminder, the field has a new name:
Steve Spurrier - Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
Bonus: OBC has come back as an "ambassador and consultant" and tomorrow as Honorary Mr. Two Bits
3. The 6s
1906 First Florida Football team practiced on Fleming Field
1966 - Spurrier wins the Heisman
1996 - Gators win the national championship
1996 - Wuerffel Heisman
2006- Gators win the national championship again
2016 - ?
4. UMass Minutemen -
Pre 1948 - Statesmen or Aggies > 1948 -The Redmen > 1972 The Minutemen
The Redmen symbolized the roles Native Americans served in the history of the Commonwealth and for their "strength and fierceness in defending his lands."
It was deemed derogatory in 1972 so the Minutemen became the mascot, chosen for its ties to the history of the Commonwealth, and instrumental role in the American Revolution.
No one is ever happy and in the 90s the Minutemen was considered a "symbol of oppression" but no change has been made.
5. Player to know:
Starting QB Luke Del Rio #14
Former Alabama walk on (3rd string), then transferred to Oregon State (2nd string) transferred to Florida 2015.
He's thrown 18 career passes in 3 games - one of those was a career long 52 yard pass @ Stanford...
UMass will be his first start & first game for the Gators.
Luke is the son of Jack Del Rio, former head-coach of the Jaguars, current head-coach of the Oakland Raiders.
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