We are now exactly two weeks away from opening day of the College Football season and it has been a long time coming. I was just telling someone yesterday that I have been having football dreams for at least two and a half months now. And, as with most blogs dealing with sports, we'll be doing counting down the days by reliving the past in the form of lists. I'll be looking at the winners of the SEC for the last 10 years as well as some memorable (or forgettable, depending on your perspective) games from that time period.
The 2000 season was the third season of the BCS which had seemed to work until that point. Auburn and Florida met twice that year, the second meeting being in the SEC Championship Game. Both times the Gators beat up on Auburn, the Tigers never scoring more than a touchdown. The two teams shared something in common that year: both were upset by the Mississippi State Bulldogs. Florida's was a difficult loss as they came into the game ranked 3rd against an unranked Bulldog team and Steve Spurrier once again did his best to prove the maxim that if you have more than one quarterback you don't have any. The Gators rotated three quarterbacks that day, senior Jesse Palmer (current ESPN analyst), and freshmen Rex Grossman (current NFL benchwarmer) and Brock Berlin (current who knows) who would transfer to Miami.
Tommy Tuberville was only in his second season that year and was improving his Auburn team, which would eventually go undefeated in 2004. Spurrier would resign as Florida's coach in 2002 to go to the NFL's Redskins, a decidedly horrible move. Florida would not win another SEC Championship after their defeat of the Tigers until 2006.
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