The 2005 season would open with high expectations of new head coach Urban Meyer. With the game already decided, the PAT was not tried and the Gators walked away with a 4537 victory. 1998 - 2023 University Athletic Assoc., Inc., FOX Sports Sun & IMG College. He was drafted in the fifth round by the Oakland Raiders and was a regular as a rookie before being waived in 2019. When Florida's next drive ended in a punt, UT had the ball down only eight, 2820. Kentucky cut the lead to four on a field goal. Only 3 schools lost more players to the portal this cycle than the Gators. The Gators' second game of the season was also the first meeting with its opponent. The Gators traveled to Lexington to take on the Kentucky Wildcats for the 57th time. This was the first contest between these two schools. College Football Scores. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the fifth round of the 2010 NFL Draft where he played his whole career. Senior day in the Swamp saw the Gators start strong, scoring four touchdowns and a field goal on their first five possessions en route to a 4512 victory over the in-state rival Florida State Seminoles. Finally, former Florida football head coach Ron Zook is the defensive coordinator for the Seattle Sea Dragons. Leak made his first CFL start at quarterback on September 3, 2010, against the BC Lions. The official 2007 Football schedule for the Florida Gators Gators [15][16] Cooper finished the season with 21 receptions off 41 targets for 327 yards and 2 touchdowns. Lacking start-up capital and with low ticket sales, the AAFL's first season was postponed until 2009 (and later canceled). Want more of our free, weekly newslettersinyourinbox? During his sophomore season in 2004, Leak's quarterback skills progressed, transforming him into one of the notable quarterbacks in college football. As a matter of policy, Sports Reference only reports the results of games as played on the field. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Leak led the Florida Gators to their second consensus national championship with a 41-14 victory over the Ohio State Buckeyes on January 8, 2007, taking home the offensive Most Valuable Player (MVP) award for the game. Do you have any thoughts or questions about the Gators football program? [20] In October 2016, the 16-year-old victim declined to press charges and the investigation was closed. Kentucky refused to give up, driving to the Florida 5-yard-line with seconds left and closed the game with a touchdown from Woodson to Keenan Burton. 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This story first appeared in Chomp, our Gators football newsletter. He also set a new school record for rushing touchdowns by a QB in a game with 5 breaking the old record held by ex-Florida QB Jesse Palmer. NIL Value: -. He was a full-time starter in his sophomore year (2011) and finished with 176 tackles, including 23.5 tackles for a loss through 26 starts and 39 appearances. Do you have a blog? [5], As a sophomore, Cooper appeared in 10 games during the year with two starts in home contests against Tennessee and Auburn. Cooper had a breakout season during the last year of his rookie contract. Big Ten, . Cooper hauled in a career-high and team-best four catches for 122 yards and two touchdowns, including a career-long 59-yard grab in his 2007 debut against Western Kentucky. Florida leads the all-time series 31-19-2. [1] In four years as the Patriots' starting quarterback, Leak led his team to three consecutive North Carolina 4-A state championships. This marked the third game of the season where the Gators faced an opponent for the first time. 2007 Florida Gators Stats. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. David and I want to hear from you. Since, Marshall has split snaps within the Gators' secondary and has given up an impressive completion percentage (in his favor) of 43.3% on 30 targets, per Pro Football Focus. The attrition is most pronounced at the top of the roster. His best year came in 2015 when he took over the starting running back role for the team and became the ninth player in program history to rush for over 1,000 yards. The Gators ran out to a 286 lead by late in the 2nd quarter on two Tim Tebow touchdown passes and a Tebow touchdown run, along with the opening punt return. [1] He set North Carolina state records for passing yards in a career (15,593) and completions in a career (1,013), as well as the national record for touchdown passes in a career (185). One of FSU kicker Gary Cismesia's four FGs was a school record 60-yard effort on the last play of the 1st half to cut his team's deficit to 2412 at intermission. Lito Sheppard was among the OG defensive backs coming out of Florida that earned the institution the moniker "Defensive Back University" as the team transitioned from the fun-and-gun approach under Steve Spurrier to a more defensive-minded philosophy under the infamous Ron Zook. He made collegiate debut with one reception for 10 yards against Central Florida. The Gators would open the season in Gainesville against Wyoming from the Mountain West Conference. Appearing to kick another long field goal, LSU instead ran a brilliant fake with the holderquarterback Matt Flynnwho scooted eight yards for the first down. Alongside fellow DB Keiwan Ratliff, the talented defenseman from Jacksonville, Florida, terrorized opposing passing games over the course of his three-year tenure and provided a punch on special teams. Cooper caught eight passes, gaining 182 yards and scoring two total touchdowns in 2007. Attrition is healthy to some degree.. Dan Mullen was introduced as the new offensive coordinatorLeak's third offensive coordinator in three years. Despite a sore shoulder, Ole Miss quarterback Seth Adams threw for 301 yards and 2 touchdowns, including a perfectly tossed 77-yard scoring strike that cut the Gator advantage to 3 late in the 3rd quarter. Florida has won fifteen of the last eighteen contests, but are 2 and 2 in the last 4 games. While they happened to have America's Golden Boy, they also had a roster full of trouble-makers. In fact, his play earned Tebow honors as the Southeastern Conference offensive player of the week.[8]. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Theres nothing wrong with that Napier said then. The sophomore quarterback completed 20 of 34 passes for 262 yards and 2 touchdowns and no interceptions. This excessive celebration was known as the "Gator Stomp", and that play was only the first of three TDs in the game that ended in penalties for excessive celebration, with Georgia's Mohamed Massaquoi and Florida's Wondy Pierre-Louis drawing the other flags. It was the same at Miami, which had an ACC-most 19 players enter the portal this cycle. However, following a disappointing loss to the unranked Mississippi State Bulldogs and an on-campus confrontation with fraternity members, head coach Ron Zook was fired. Florida senior forward Colin Castleton has earned second-team All-SEC honors from the leagues coaches, the SEC office announced Tuesday. Gator RB/WR Percy Harvin did his part as well, returning from a 2-game absence to rush 16 times for a game-high 157 yards and a touchdown and catch 5 passes for another 67 yards. Florida answered on consecutive drives with a 10-yard Tim Tebow pass to Cornelius Ingram and a Tebow to Louis Murphy 66-yard pass to put the Gators up by a touchdown. [12], Though they looked dominant at times early in the season, the 2007 Florida Gator squad was a team that relied on many freshmen and sophomores in key roles. They beat No. After halftime, though, things changed in The Swamp. He was a first-round pick for the Baltimore Ravens in the 2013 draft but the team moved on from him by 2017 due to declining play. [12] It also marked the fourth win of the season in which the Gators defeated a team led by a former national championship winning coach (Bobby Bowden, Howard Schnellenberger, Phillip Fulmer, and Steve Spurrier being those coaches). Tebow was the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy. In the second half, LSU took the ensuing drive but were stopped by the Gator defense. Leak won his first five games, including a big win over the SEC East rival Tennessee Volunteers, but struggled in the option portion of the Meyer's offense. Eight transferred, while a ninth, safety Rashad Torrence, made the somewhat surprising decision to declare for the NFL draft after three collegiate seasons. [5], In his senior season, Cooper totaled 961 yards on 51 receptions, with nine touchdowns and an average of 18.8 yards per catch. The video showed Cooper yelling a racial epithet at the bouncers who denied him backstage. Trask finished second nationally in passing yards per game (356.9). The Gators roster listed 109 players for their 2021 SEC finale at Missouri UFs last game under Dan Mullen. Townsend was Floridas punter from 2013 to 2017. [12] Navy's victory over Notre Dame subsequently snapped the longest streak to make Florida/Kentucky the second longest. As the University of Florida dominated college football for the better half of a decade under Coach Urban Meyer, the Gators accumulated numbers of victories and accolades and championships. In the first half against the Troy Trojans, the Gator offense led by QB Tim Tebow scored a touchdown every time it had the ball. The 2007 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida in the sport of American football during the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Really proud of the character of these guys. Johnson has spent most of the last two seasons cheering on teammates from the bench as he remained enrolled in school and on scholarship. Trask was responsible for 46 touchdowns (43 passing, 3 rushing), tying him for sixth on the SEC single-seasonrecord list. Glades Central(Belle Glade) He spent the last two seasons as special teams graduate assistant at LSU. Suddenly, the entire Bulldog bench rushed onto the field resulting in two separate 15-yard penalties, both assessed on the ensuing kickoff. Trasks 69 career touchdown passes rank sixth in school history, while his 7,386 career passing yards and 552 career completions rank eighth in school history, and his 813 career attempts rank 10th in school history. Subscribehere. . Leak played professionally for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL), the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL), and the Jacksonville Sharks and Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League (AFL). Florida quarterback Tim Tebow set a career-high in passing yards in the game with 304 yards. The Gators rolled the dice after getting a first down, as Tebow threw a 40-yard pass to Harvin to get the Gators in the red zone. He was drafted again in 2009 - in the twenty-fifth round,[7] the seven-hundred and fifty-fourth player chosen that year - after which he signed a deal to play baseball for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball but decided to delay his MLB career and returned to play football for the Gators football team in 2009. He is scheduled to graduate next month. He spent time with New York (Giants), Baltimore (twice), Kansas City (twice), Tennessee and Houston before being released in December of 2022. As the University of Florida dominated college football for the better half of a decade under coach Urban Meyer, the Gators accumulated numbers of victories and accolades and championships. [14], Cooper continued to play with the Eagles during the 2015 season. After missing another relatively short field goal, LSU took advantage of an errant pass by Tim Tebow which hit Ingram in the helmet. And when you move in another direction, you get more roster spots to fill. Moore's fumble early in the game led to Georgia's first touchdown. Hill played for Florida from 2008 to 2010 and was a member of the 2009 national championship team. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. Gators Breakdown: Latest roster and staff moves | Last look at 2021 Watch on David Waters and Will Miles have the latest on players and coaches coming and leaving for Billy Napier's first season. That number . 1998 - 2023 University Athletic Assoc., Inc., FOX Sports Sun & IMG College. The Tigers drove down the field, and Flynn hit Demetrius Byrd for a 3-yard touchdown to cut the Gator lead to 3. Who the Gators choose will ultimately determine whether this much attrition was healthy. Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Wednesday, March 1, 11:34AM. The BC Lions Tebow honors as the Southeastern Conference offensive Player of the notable in. 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