Bacon scores 15, leads No. 25 Florida State over Illinois

FSU will be risky when Florida drops back to throw, as the Seminoles sport both the nation’s leader in sacks and the national leader in interceptions at the moment.

“That’s who we are”, Hamilton said following No. 25 Florida State’s 72-61 win over IL in the consolation game of the NIT Season Tip-Off on Friday.

Shooting guard Quinton Rose had a career and game high 26 points, along with 6 rebounds and 4 assists. Cook is sixth in the nation in rushing yardage at the moment and will be the fiercest back the Gators face all year. The Seminoles rebuilt their double-digit lead and went on to lead by as many as 18 points, 60-42 at 13:29.

The numbers speak for themselves.

Florida State cutting out turf from The Swamp is the ultimate sign of disrespect between rivals-and it happened in both 2013 and 2015. He owns the top-two single season rushing records and with 44 career rushing touchdowns, he is tied with Greg Allen for the program record. We’re going to play our game, get the passing game going and running the football.

UF has learned from September’s second-half collapse at Tennessee, when McElwain said players were trying to win the game by themselves rather than trusting teammates.

According to The Advocate, the 16-10 loss at home to the Gators – on a do-or-die run from the 1-yard line in the final seconds – opens the door to a pool of candidates, led by Fisher, and ends a potential plan to quickly name Orgeron the Tigers’ new head coach. Florida should be able to get six explosive plays which means 10-yard runs or 15-yard pass plays. The Gators as a whole have seven.

“We can fix some things on defense; see where we messed up there”, IL coach John Groce. You were just watching it for the pure joy of watching a good player. Cook now tops the list with 4,166 and counting.

Of UF’s 11 rushes in Fayetteville, six failed to gain more than one yard; that doesn’t include the three sacks UF allowed, plus the hit that sidelined quarterback Luke Del Rio with a shoulder injury.

Finally, the Florida defense kept Leonard Fournette and Derrius Guice from killing them on the ground last week and came up with the biggest plays of the game when it mattered most in the closing minute. Three weeks earlier, they held Georgia’s Nick Chubb to 20 yards on the ground. It’s a compliment that the Gators have achieved what they have. We’ll break it down more next week, but Florida is the SEC East team best equipped to handle Alabama, and it’s still going to be a tall order. “We got to get people around the ball because he’s going to make some guys miss and that’s what makes him so special”. “If we come out with a win this year, that will be good for the guys we can have here in the future”. We leave previous year in the past. The game is scheduled for an 8:00 p.m. start time and it will be televised nationally on ABC.

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That is about the extent of the lessons the Gators can take from those three Florida State losses, as all three have involved high scoring, a shot that Florida simply doesn’t have in their bag.

Series: Florida leads 34-24-2. The Gators will be without their top three tacklers — linebacker Jarrad Davis, linebacker Alex Anzalone and safety Marcus Maye — for the second straight week.