As opening day gets closer, we know one thing about the first Florida football game of [autotag]Billy Napier[/autotag]’s first season as a Gator.
This will be turned up.
In fact, I can make the argument that it might be the most electric atmosphere for a first game that we have ever seen for this program.
There are a lot of reasons. One is that Napier is starting what Florida fans hope won’t be a fourth straight short tenure for head coaches at UF. But more than that, the Gator Nation wants to see what they have and the test is going to be darn close to as difficult as you can make it.
Utah will probably be ranked in the top 10 when the first Associated Press poll comes out. If the Utes do crack the top 10, it will only be the fourth time that Florida has opened the season against a top-10 team.
One of those did not make this version of the latest Dooley’s Dozen: Houston in 1969.
I’m going by the buzz going into the game, not the one coming away from it. And the stands were far from full for that Houston game because expectations were not high.
Remember, fans started showing up at halftime to buy tickets after listening to Otis Boggs on the radio.
So, let’s see how you feel about these 12, the Dooley’s Dozen of the most electric atmospheres heading into an opener.