There isn’t a lot of history between the two opponents in the Gasparilla Bowl except a lot of snarky remarks back and forth when the two sides were trying to negotiate a contract to play. This bowl game did it for them.
It is interesting that — if the schedules hold together and that is up in the air with the uncertainty of the SEC and college football’s future — by the time we’re done with the 2033 season, Florida and UCF will have doubled the times they have played each other.
There have been only two meetings between the teams in history with UCF being a relatively young program, joining big boy football (a.k.a. FBS) in 1996, the year Florida won its first national championship.
So, here’s a look at the two games — games in which Florida scored exactly 100 points — that were played between the two schools in the not-so-distance past as you get ready for the Gasparilla Bowl: