The final game of the 2022 college football regular season is near for the Florida Gators, who wrap up the schedule with a meeting with their in-state rivals, the Florida State Seminoles, in Tallahassee this Friday coming night. It has been an up-and-down debut campaign for first-year head coach [autotag]Billy Napier[/autotag], who looks to end things on a high note before bowl season.
It will not be easy for Florida, however, as they enter enemy territory against a team carrying an 8-3 record and ranked No. 16 in both the Coaches and AP polls. Considering the Gators’ complete collapse against the Vanderbilt Commodores the weekend before, Napier and his staff have their work cut out for them.
Florida holds an 11-game lead in the all-time series sporting a 37-26-2 record dating back to 1958. The Gators won five of the first six meetings — with a 3-3 tie coming in 1961 — and 16 of the first 19 games between the Sunshine State schools. Since then, it has been a bit of a tug-of-war over short stretches for each team, with the Orange and Blue prevailing in the last three games.
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