#93 Trace Armstrong transferred to the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, from Arizona State and played his final college season for coach Galen Hall‘s Florida Gators football team in 1988. He was recognized as a first-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection and a first-team All-American at defensive tackle. He set a new Gators single-season record for most tackles for a loss with nineteen, including seven sacks. In all, Armstrong made fifty-nine tackles with forty-one of those solo. Armstrong ended his college career with 169 tackles, including thirty-two tackles for losses and fifteen quarterback sacks. He graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts in 1989, and returned to earn a master’s degree in business administration in 2006. As part of a fan poll conducted by The Gainesville Sun in 2006, he was voted to the Florida Gators 100th Anniversary Team as a defensive lineman together with other Gators like Jack Youngblood, Wilber Marshall and Kevin Carter. He was also inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a “Gator Great” in 2000.
Honorable Mention: #93 Alonzo Johnson, LB (1983-85) – Johnson joins Robin Fisher and Wilber Marshall as the only Gators to be in the top 10 in both career tackles and sacks. Typically overshadowed by Marshall, Johnson was a star in his own right.
Honorable Mention: #93 Alonzo Johnson, LB (1983-85) – Johnson joins Robin Fisher and Wilber Marshall as the only Gators to be in the top 10 in both career tackles and sacks. Typically overshadowed by Marshall, Johnson was a star in his own right.
