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Super Bowl XLVI will feature at least 5 Gators, and will be the 10th consecutive Super Bowl to feature former Gators. The New York Giants only have one Gator, DE Justin Trattou ('11). The New England Patriots will feature starters LB Brandon Spikes ('10), TE Aaron Hernandez ('10), and DT Gerard Warren ('01). LB Jermaine Cunningham ('10) will likely sit out the game due to injury.

In the playoffs, Brandon Spikes had a strong showing, including a 19-yard interception reception and a team-high nine tackles last week. Aaron Hernandez ran some plays from the old Gator playbook to catch a team-high 7 passes for 66 yards and adding 3 rushes for 9 yards. Not to be outdone, old-timer Gerard Warren added three...

The Gators have added two new commitments for the Class of 2012.

Bryan Cox Jr, a 6-foot-3 defensive end out of Ft. Lauderdale committed on Saturday and Alex McCalister a 6-foot-7 defensive end out of Clemmons, North Carolina committed on Monday.

Cox shares the name of his father, NFL great Bryan Cox, who was known for his off the charts talent at linebacker and his temperamental personality with Miami Dolphins, New York Jets and Chicago Bears. Cox Sr. is currently an assistant coach with the Miami Dolphins for the time being.

McCalister is a tall lean player at 6-foot-7 and will surely benefit from the Gators offseason conditioning program. At Florida he'll play the Buck position, somewhere between...

Tebowmania peaked in 2011 as Tim Tebow guided the Broncos to a 7-4 record with him as the starting quarterback in 2011, 9-7 over the last two years as a starter. John Elway has gone on record that he wants to help Tebow. For comparison's sake, let's compare those two quarterbacks in their first two years.

GS W L T Win% Cmp Att Cmp% Yds TD TD% Int Int% Lng Y/A AY/A Y/C Y/G Rate
Elway 24 16 8 0 67% 337 639 51.9 4261 25 3.7 29 4.65 73 6.6 5.25 12.8 162.2 65.85
Tebow 14 8 6 0 57% 167 353 48.25 1191.5 17 5.25 9 2.95 53 7.2 6.9 14.85 98.1 77.5

In short, the numbers are close enough for John Elway to have some faith in Tebow for next year.

Playing time: Elway had to contend with Steve Deberg for his first two years just as Tebow had to...

Florida Gator quarterback John Brantley struggled in the East-West Shrine Game as he completed 1 pass in 6 attempts for 21 yards. For comparison sake, Tennessee Chattanooga's BJ Coleman finished 10 of 15 for 168 yards and Southern Mississippi QB Austin Davis went 7 of 10 for 68 yards.

NFL scouts rank JB4 as the #24 QB in the upcoming draft. Scouts say he has a great delivery with nice spin, but needed a nice outing in this game to impress scouts.

ICON SMI Jan 02 2012: U.S. Army All-American Bowl East Team wide receiver Stefon Diggs (1) during the Monday East Team Practice for the 2012 U.S. Army All-American Bowl at Heroes Stadium in San Antonio Texas.

IN just a few short months, the Gators will retake the field at The Swamp for the annual Blue and Orange game. This year's game will be Saturday April 7th at 1 p.m. the school announced this week.

It will be the first time we get to see about 15-25 new Gators take the field at the Swamp.

While the 2012 class will be noteworthy as coach Will Muschamp's first-much of the talk will surround a couple of Urban Meyer recruits, sophomore quarterbacks Jacoby Brissett...

Brent Pease's biggest attribute for getting the job at Florida was probably Boise State's remarkable success where he has served on the offensive coaching staff for the last six years. Second to his results is that Pease has coached in a variety of conferences throughout college football.

Pease served as the running backs and wide receivers coach from 1991-1998 at Montana, and then was the school's offensive coordinator from 1996-98. He took the offensive coordinator's/quarterback's job at Northern Arizona from 1999-2000 and then moved to Kentucy from 2001-02 as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He then went to Baylor from 2003-2005 as the offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach before arriving at Boise State as the wide...

Update: Tuesday 9:47 p.m. ET ESPN is reporting that Pease will be named Florida's new offensive coordinator on Wednesday.

Update Monday 10:26 p.m. ET: Scout.com reports, as well as FoxSports.com are reporting that Pease is the guy and an announcement will be made either Tuesday or the coming days.

Boise State offensive coordinator Brent Pease is the favorite to become the next offensive coordinator at Florida, according to a source as reported by The Idaho...

The overwhelming sentiment is that a Gator win is better than a Gator loss any day and so finishing the season at 7-6 puts a positive spin on the doubts which linger regarding the football program.

After the 24-17 win in front of over 60,000 fans, mostly Gator fans, Muschamp gave what might be the first of tens of speeches highlighting the improvement which he expects will happen in the not too distant future.

"7-6 is not acceptable at the University of Florida," Muschamp said.

Though with the win, the Gators have now had 24 consecutive winning seasons, the longest active streak in the country.

He continued, "We've had a staff and a guy that won two National Championships, a heck of a football...