GAINESVILLE,
Fla. -- The Gators are currently second in the BCS rankings and in
the midst of a comeback 2012 season that includes a home game loaded with SEC
East implications Saturday against South Carolina.
While
the Gators have much to play for this season, Florida’s 2013 schedule was
released Thursday.
The
Gators kick off next season at home on Aug. 31 against Toledo of the
Mid-American Conference. It will be the first meeting between the two schools.
In
Week 2 the Gators will travel to Miami as part of a home-and-home series that
brought the Hurricanes to The Swamp in 2008, a 26-3 Gators win.
The
Gators and Hurricanes have met 54 times but only five times since 1987. It will
be Florida’s first game at Sun Life Stadium since its 24-14 win over Oklahoma
to win the 2008 national title.
In
Week 3 the Gators are off, the first of two bye weeks for Florida, which has
not happened since the 2008 season.
After
the bye week, the Gators host Tennessee in their Southeastern Conference opener
Sept. 21 in search of their ninth consecutive win over the Vols.
Like
this season, once the Gators open SEC competition they play eight consecutive
games within the conference. After Tennessee, they travel to Kentucky (Sept.
28).
Next
up are back-to-back games against the SEC West. Florida hosts Arkansas on Oct.
5 and then visits LSU on Oct. 12. The following week the Gators travel to
Missouri for the first time.
The
Gators' second bye week is Oct. 26, followed by the annual trip to Jacksonville
to face Georgia on Nov. 2. The Gators close out conference play by hosting
Vanderbilt on Nov. 9 and then traveling to South Carolina on Nov. 16.
The
Gators then conclude the regular season with nonconference home games against
Georgia Southern (Nov. 23) and Florida State (Nov. 30).
2013
Florida Football Schedule
8/31
vs. Toledo
9/7
at Miami (Fla.)
BYE
9/21
vs. Tennessee
9/28
at Kentucky
10/5
vs. Arkansas
10/12
at LSU
10/19
at Missouri
BYE
11/2
vs. Georgia (Jax.)
11/9
vs. Vanderbilt
11/16
at South Carolina
11/23
vs. Georgia Southern
11/30
vs. Florida State
