Brandon James was the SEC special teams player of the week for his 193 yards and a touchdown on kick returns. Cooper had a career game in Week 9 against the Oakland Raiders, where he posted 5 receptions for 139 yards (27.8 avg) and 3 touchdowns. [5], In his senior season, Cooper totaled 961 yards on 51 receptions, with nine touchdowns and an average of 18.8 yards per catch. He was a first-round pick for the Baltimore Ravens in the 2013 draft but the team moved on from him by 2017 due to declining play. As such, the official record for Alabama is 02 (02). In the 41st meeting between the two, Florida came out early with a 357 lead by the half. The Orlando Guardians have three former Florida football players on the team, safety Matt Elam, running back Kelvin Taylor and punter Johnny Townsend. He becomes the first Gator since Dorian Finney-Smith (2015 and 2016) to earn repeat All-SEC honors. In a game against the Dallas Cowboys on November 9, Cooper left the game with a foot injury. Retrieved on June 3, 2008. We only know that it will be different. Coming off of two consecutive regular season losses, the Wolverines were attempting to break their four bowl game losing streak. A bunch of high-character guys that left it on the line, and, unfortunately, Texas A&M made some huge plays down the stretch, hit a huge shot, obviously.. Kentucky opened the scoring on an Andre' Woodson 33-yard pass to Dicky Lyons to take an early 70 lead. According to The New York Times, 41 members of the 2008 Gators have been arrested. In the second half, LSU took the ensuing drive but were stopped by the Gator defense. Video Platform powered by CBS Sports Digital. Two highly rated recruiting classes from 2006 and 2007 filled up most of the depth chart, as few upperclassmen remained from last year's title team. Suddenly, the entire Bulldog bench rushed onto the field resulting in two separate 15-yard penalties, both assessed on the ensuing kickoff. 2007 Florida Gators Stats. Eleanor Roosevelt Raiders (Greenbelt) EDGE6-526836yrs. And in this episode of Gators Breakdown, David is joined by Will Miles and Nick Knudsen with Read and Reaction to break down the roster on the offensive side of the ball, going position by position of what they like and what questions need to be answered. The Gators now lead the all-time series 2143,[12] although the annual contest has become much more intense since Heisman Trophy-winning ex-Gator quarterback and championship-winning ex-Gator head coach Steve Spurrier took the reins at South Carolina for the 2005 season. Deonte Thompson. The Gators seemed to lose their offensive rhythm and the point production dried up while Troy QB Omar Haugabook (30-53, 291 yards, 2 TDs) found his own rhythm, helping the Trojans outscore the Gators 2410 over the final two quarters. He played in the CFL in 2017 and then joined the Apollos in 2018. While mostly a reserve, he ended the season with 23 receptions for 248 yards and 3 touchdowns. Sophomore quarterback Tim Tebow led the Gators to touchdowns on their first four possessions en route to a relatively easy 493 victory in intense early season heat. That capped a wild finish that saw ninth-seeded Florida lead a total of 39 seconds, all in overtime, after closing regulation with a 21-8 run over the last five minutes. He spent the last two seasons as special teams graduate assistant at LSU. [10] The Montreal Alouettes went on to win the Grey Cup in 2009. There are no statistics available for this player. 1998 - 2023 University Athletic Assoc., Inc., FOX Sports Sun & IMG College. The biggest addition for this Gators football roster, an immediate starter for an offensive line that has struggled the last few seasons, would still be an immediate start on a very good offensive line anywhere in the country, David said. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. [1] The Scout.com recruiting service ranked Leak as a five-star prospect and the third-best quarterback in the 2003 recruiting class. Florida added a field goal to build their lead to 14 midway through the third quarter. On the ensuing punt, Brandon James took the return 83 yards for Gator touchdown. Leak played professionally for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL), the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL), and the Jacksonville Sharks and Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League (AFL). Cooper passed on the contract and played college baseball for the Florida Gators baseball team as an outfielder. [12], The Vanderbilt Commodores traveled to Gainesville for the first time since 2005 where they nearly came away with a win in overtime. Let us know here, and well share our responses to your questions. This inexperience was evident in their contest with the Ole Miss Rebels in Oxford, Mississippi. Kentucky refused to give up, driving to the Florida 5-yard-line with seconds left and closed the game with a touchdown from Woodson to Keenan Burton. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Read more about our data coverage. An Outside the Lines investigation of 10 major football and men's basketball programs found that the University of Florida had the most athletes -- 80, or 24 percent of its rosters -- named as . Leak made his first CFL start at quarterback on September 3, 2010, against the BC Lions. With the win and Tennessee's loss to Alabama, the Gators once again control their destiny in the SEC Eastern Division. However, the momentum was short-lived, as Florida went on a 6-play, 81-yard scoring drive without throwing a pass to open the 2nd half and cruised from then on. All rights reserved. Agree or disagree with something weve said? Coming off the bench, he posted 16 receptions for 315 yards and a touchdown. [13] On April 23, 2012, Leak signed with the Orlando Predators.[14]. [3], 2005 Southeastern Conference football standings, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2005_Florida_Gators_football_team&oldid=1119734172, $ BCS representative as conference champion. The only SEC players with more in a season were LSUs Joe Burrow (60 in 15 games in 2019) and Missouris Drew Lock (44 in 13 games in 2017). During his freshman season in 2006, Cooper served as the "gunner" on special teams and played in 13 of the 14 games for the Gators. Leak began his career at Florida as a freshman, seeing playing time in the first few games, and taking over as the starter in the game against the Kentucky Wildcats. Tebow closed the drive with a touchdown score on the ground to put the game away. Appearing to kick another long field goal, LSU instead ran a brilliant fake with the holderquarterback Matt Flynnwho scooted eight yards for the first down. Ironically, their last bowl game win came against the Ron Zook coached Gators following the 2002 season. Gov. [5], Cooper appeared in fourteen games for the Gators in his junior season, starting all but two (against Hawaii and Florida State). Again the Gators responded, mounting a 6-minute drive that spanned the third and fourth quarters, culminating in a Percy Harvin 24-yard touchdown run. He signed a reserve/future contract with the Jags in 2021 but was cut once again at the end of training camp. Florida has won fifteen of the last eighteen contests, but are 2 and 2 in the last 4 games. He was signed to a four-year contract on July 13, 2010.[10]. Thats the biggest question surrounding Gator football as we head into spring practice, David said. [4] Lindsey is married to former University of Florida linebacker and current Detroit Lions linebacker Alex Anzalone. After halftime, though, things changed in The Swamp. The Gators marched down the field again and scored on a Tebow run to put their lead back at 10 with 2:23 to play in the first half. [12] The Gator victory broke both a two-game losing streak to the Rebels and a three-game losing streak in games played in the state of Mississippi. The only player in school history responsible for more in a season is Tim Tebow (55 in 2007). As such, the official record for Alabama is 26 (14). Tebow was the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. Previous Year Next Year. All Rights Reserved. He was the first Gator freshman wide receiver to have three touchdown catches in a game since Jabar Gaffney accomplished the feat in 2000. Cooper saw action in Florida's triumphs over Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky, mostly on special teams. "[20] In the aftermath, the Philadelphia Eagles fined Cooper an undisclosed amount, but still allowed him to resume activities with the team.[21]. He scored again in the second meeting of the season against the Cowboys, again on a one-handed catch. With his 262 passing yards and 89 rushing, Tebow set a new school record for most yards of total offense in a season with 3,970, surpassing Rex Grossman's 2001 total. Cooper caught eight passes, gaining 182 yards and scoring two total touchdowns in 2007. Henderson was probably held back somewhat by a struggling passing game last season. The season was the team's first of six under head coach Urban Meyer, who led the Gators to an Outback Bowl berth and an overall winloss record of 93 (.750). [1] He was recognized as a Parade magazine All-American as well as Parade's Player of the Year in 2003. This stretched the Gator lead to 18, their largest of the day. Craig Steltz missed an assignment on the play which left Ingram wide open on the post pattern. Tebow finished last week's game with 19 total rushing touchdowns leaving him tied with Shaun Alexander, LaBrandon Toefield, and Garrison Hearst. Some school's results have been altered by retroactive NCAA penalties. He hauled in a key touchdown, along with a season-high 51-yard reception, that put Florida in scoring position during the SEC Championship Game against Alabama. Kyle Trasks 43 touchdown passes led the nation by two, broke Danny Wuerffels 24-year-old school record of 39, and tied him for third on the SEC single-season record list. The record-setting day continued when Gators' wide receiver Andre Caldwell set a new school record for career receptions with 177 breaking the prior record held by Carlos Alvarez with 172. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. He also tallied 13 pass breakup, six interceptions, three forced fumbles and a fumble recovery. We saw it in just some of the short highlights from last camp, and that is a continue this spring.. Florida quarterback Tim Tebow set a career-high in passing yards in the game with 304 yards. 1998 - 2023 University Athletic Assoc., Inc., FOX Sports Sun & IMG College. At home in Charlotte, North Carolina, he also worked with the Boys and Girls Club and the Steele Creek Youth Athletic Association, served as an inspirational speaker with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and spoke at area middle schools encouraging students to stay focused on their goals. Cooper caught his first NFL touchdown in a game against the Tennessee Titans. He was waived after two years with the team and then signed with the Baltimore Ravens. He was drafted again in 2009 - in the twenty-fifth round,[7] the seven-hundred and fifty-fourth player chosen that year - after which he signed a deal to play baseball for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball but decided to delay his MLB career and returned to play football for the Gators football team in 2009. This game was notable for the fact that offensive coordinator and future Florida head coach Dan Mullen underwent an emergency appendectomy the night before, yet still called plays from the press box.[18]. And thats only one wave of departures. Mississippi's lead in the all-time series was reduced to 11-10-1. Tim Tebow finished 14-19 passing for 299 yards with 2 TDs and 1 INT and rushed for 62 yards and 2 more TDs, and was awarded as the Walter Camp Foundation national offensive player of the week. He finished his career with over 11,000 yards punted and an average of 46.2 yards per punt. Record: 9-4 (20th of 119) (Schedule & Results), Bowl Game: Lost Capital One Bowl 41-35 versus Michigan. (); : . [17] Following an 05 start, Leak resigned on October 4. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. All rights reserved), Florida forward Keyontae Johnson (11) smiles after being introduced as a starter before the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Kentucky, Saturday, March 5, 2022, in Gainesville, Fla. (AP Photo/Matt Stamey), (Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. The Orlando Guardians have three former Florida football players on the team, safety Matt Elam, running back Kelvin Taylor and punter Johnny Townsend. Preseason analysis projected that Florida would have the hardest schedule in the country, including back-to-back games against Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, LSU, Auburn and Georgia. Cooper was nominated SEC Freshman of the Week following his performance. The Gators didn't lose again. This page was last edited on 3 November 2022, at 03:54. Gator RB/WR Percy Harvin did his part as well, returning from a 2-game absence to rush 16 times for a game-high 157 yards and a touchdown and catch 5 passes for another 67 yards. None is a quarterback. What will Floridas new name, image and likeness law actually do? Florida Gators head coach Will Muschamp added Leak as a quality control coach in May 2013. The Gators competed in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and played their home games at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. Both teams traded punts before Woodson found Lyons for the third time on the day on a 6-yard TD pass. The Gators ran out to a 286 lead by late in the 2nd quarter on two Tim Tebow touchdown passes and a Tebow touchdown run, along with the opening punt return. He is scheduled to graduate next month. The DC Defenders feature the final former Gator player, receiver Josh Hammond. Spurrier's new team upset his old team in 2005, and only a blocked last-second field goal kept him from repeating that feat in Gainesville in 2006. Castleton averaged 17.9 points per game in conference play this season with three 20-point outings. If you need help with WJXTs or WCWJ's FCC public inspection file, call (904) 393-9801. Exclude walk-ons, and the number of holdovers drops to 27. His performance was solid throughout the BCS championship game, completing his first nine passes at the start of the game, and finishing with twenty-five completions in thirty-six attempts for 213 yards and one touchdown. Who are the workers, and who are the guys that are looking for the way out? Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Wednesday, March 1, 11:34AM. Tennessee's momentum was washed away by the roar of 90,000 Gator fans, and the home team never looked back. They also committed 14 penalties for 127 yards, with several of the miscues either stalling Gator drives or helping the Rebel's scoring chances. He started 17 games and played in 36 total across three seasons. He started all of Florida's games, including a memorable school record-tying six-touchdown performance against the South Carolina Gamecocks. The Gators won the Southeastern Conference championship in all three years he spent in Gainesville, and the speedy pass-catcher from Patterson, Louisiana, capped off his collegiate career with a national championship after the 1996-97 season. Do you have a blog? From 1999 to 2002, Sheppard snatched eight interceptions six his sophomore year and two his junior year for 186 yards and a touchdown, while also 49 Keiwan Ratliff played during a transitional time in Gainesville, when the "Head Ball Coach" Steve Spurrier handed the baton to the infamous Ron Zook, which was a tumultuous time in Florida football history. Leak was listed on the SEC Academic Honor Roll each year he attended Florida, and was a finalist for the Draddy Trophy, also known as the "Academic Heisman" for college football players. Or write about sports? With backup quarterback Adrian McPherson injured, Leak was on the active roster for the August 21, 2009, match against the Saskatchewan Roughriders, in which he threw his first CFL touchdown pass on his first play. [5] He spent the summer of 2007 working with the team, and training under former Gator quarterback Rex Grossman. Letsgetstarted. When the weather failed to clear, the game was declared final with 8:23 remaining in the 4th quarter. Moore's fumble early in the game led to Georgia's first touchdown. This excessive celebration was known as the "Gator Stomp", and that play was only the first of three TDs in the game that ended in penalties for excessive celebration, with Georgia's Mohamed Massaquoi and Florida's Wondy Pierre-Louis drawing the other flags. [10], Overall, the Gators put together a historically dominating performance. The newly named Michigan head coach, Rich Rodriguez, could be seen during the game along the Michigan sidelines. We dug ourselves a huge hole, of course, in the first half. Most Recent Games and Any Score Since 1869. Christopher Patrick Leak (born May 3, 1985) is an American football coach and former gridiron football quarterback. One of FSU kicker Gary Cismesia's four FGs was a school record 60-yard effort on the last play of the 1st half to cut his team's deficit to 2412 at intermission. The Gators rolled the dice after getting a first down, as Tebow threw a 40-yard pass to Harvin to get the Gators in the red zone. After a slow start, Cooper put together a solid season with 47 receptions for 835 yards and 8 touchdowns, all career highs. Leak was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1985. All rights reserved. However, following a disappointing loss to the unranked Mississippi State Bulldogs and an on-campus confrontation with fraternity members, head coach Ron Zook was fired. His NFL career never took off after being drafted in the sixth round by San Francisco. The coaching staff remained, surprisingly, intact after 2006, which gave Meyer a third straight season at Florida with the same coaching staff. [4] Instead, Meyer publicly endorsed Leak as the starting quarterback and confirmed Tim Tebow would be the back-up. [12], Though they looked dominant at times early in the season, the 2007 Florida Gator squad was a team that relied on many freshmen and sophomores in key roles. Then theres safety Will Hill on the Arlington Renegades. Johnson has spent most of the last two seasons cheering on teammates from the bench as he remained enrolled in school and on scholarship. The Gators roster listed 109 players for their 2021 SEC finale at Missouri UFs last game under Dan Mullen. With the victory, Florida leads the series 40-17-0 and has beaten Kentucky twenty one consecutive years in football, the third longest active streak in Division I-FBS. He started the season used mostly for blocking, rather than for his receiving ability. After short stints with Kansas City, Atlanta and Cleveland, Taylor played for the Orlando Apollos in the Alliance of American Football and was coached by Steve Spurrier in 2018. In all, Tebow accounted for all 4 Gator touchdowns and 427 of his team's 507 total yards. Woodson hit Jacob Tamme on a 28-yard pass to pull the Wildcats within 11. Gators Breakdown: Top 4 Offensive Players for Spring, Texas A&M guard Hassan Diarra (5) celebrates his game-winning shot against Florida with teammates Tyrece Radford (23), Aaron Cash (0) and Andre Gordon (20) after an NCAA college basketball game at the Southeastern Conference tournament in Tampa, Fla., Thursday, March 10, 2022. [15][16] Cooper finished the season with 21 receptions off 41 targets for 327 yards and 2 touchdowns. The score stood at 497 after two quarters, the Gators having racked up over 350 yards of total offense, Tebow throwing 3 touchdown passes and running for another score in an impressive display of all-around dominating football. Dan Mullen was introduced as the new offensive coordinatorLeak's third offensive coordinator in three years. [9] He was claimed by the Montreal Alouettes on June 9 after being released a day earlier. ); : Trask finished second nationally in passing yards per game (356.9). Most notably, Aaron Hernandez was on the 2008 squad, ended up being convicted of murder during his time in the NFL and committed suicide while in prison. Ticket Office Student Tickets Baseball Tickets Men's Basketball Tickets Women's Basketball Tickets Football Tickets Gymnastics Tickets Softball Tickets Volleyball Tickets Gator Boosters Manage My Account . Attrition is an unavoidable part of college football because rosters turn over every four or five years as players run through their eligibility. Hammond signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars as an undrafted free agent in 2020 but was waived during final roster cuts and moved to the practice squad. Florida Football: UF among 247Sports' top 12 rosters heading into 2023 GatorSports.com Schedule Teams SEC Alabama Arkansas Auburn Georgia LSU Tennessee Texas A&M ACC Clemson UNC Big Ten Iowa. It was the same at Miami, which had an ACC-most 19 players enter the portal this cycle. The outcome was never in doubt; the Gators 2nd half lead was always greater than 20 points. LSU immediately countered with a long drive of their own, going 80 yards in 16 plays, scoring on a Ryan Perrilloux option play to cut the Gator lead to 107. He spent some time with Philadelphia and New England as well. GAME RECAP: Diarras 3 spoils Gator comeback, A&M wins 83-80 in OT. This was only the second meeting between the two storied programs with the first having taken place a short five seasons ago in the Outback Bowl. Trasks 4,283 passing yards this year broke Rex Grossmans single-season school record (3,896 in 2001), ranked second on the SEC single-season record list, and was one of six 4,000-yard passing seasons in SEC history. [12] Auburn would be the only team Tebow has played, but never defeated. [21][22] Tebow finished the regular season with the second highest passing efficiency in the nation with 177.8. Chad Henne finished his career at the University of Michigan with a victory in a bowl game, the first in five seasons, and finished with a career-high in passing yards. Once you identify that, youve got to move in another direction.. [5], As a sophomore, Cooper appeared in 10 games during the year with two starts in home contests against Tennessee and Auburn. Johnson dribbled the ball several times near midcourt, handed it to an official and started hugging everyone around him, even his opponents. Subscribe to our free Florida Football Fix newsletter (coming soon). Several Gators had excellent afternoons. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. That number . The XFL plays on Saturdays and Sundays through the spring with the playoffs beginning at the end of April. When Florida's next drive ended in a punt, UT had the ball down only eight, 2820. Follow us@GatorsWireon Twitter and like our page onFacebookto follow ongoing coverage of Florida Gators news, notes and opinions.