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crazybuckfan40
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WOW....UF the underdog at home in a game like this. That is crazy...
I think the Gators get this one and cement themselves in the top 5 for another week.
I think the Gators get this one and cement themselves in the top 5 for another week.
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LoKyBuckeye
I give up. This board is too hard to understand.
crazybuckfan40;623615; said:
I agree.... I have the Gators #2 behind OSU in my poll.
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Easy money...LSU is often garbage on the road.
Florida looked very explosive but still highly erratic...I'd be surprised if they won their next 2 games.
Florida looked very explosive but still highly erratic...I'd be surprised if they won their next 2 games.
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OSUBasketballJunkie
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NO. 5 FLORIDA 23 NO. 9 LSU 10
Florida uses 1-2 punch at QB
Leak, Tebow help Gators mow down toothless Tigers
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Mark Long
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHIL SANDLIN ASSOCIATED PRESS LSU?s Ali Highsmith leaps high to deflect a pass by Florida quarterback Chris Leak during the first half. Leak still managed to pass for 155 yards.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. ? Florida doesn?t have a quarterback controversy. It?s more like a quarterback coalition.
Backup quarterback Tim Tebow threw two touchdown passes, including one on a play that could have come from basketball coach Billy Donovan?s playbook, and ran for a score to give the fifth-ranked Gators a 23-10 Southeastern Conference win over No. 9 LSU yesterday.
"You?ve got to be creative in this league," Gators coach Urban Meyer said.
Florida improved to 6-0 for the first time since 1996 ? the school?s lone national championship season ? and extended its home winning streak to 13 games. The Gators also beat the Tigers for the first time in three years and won their 18 th straight homecoming game.
Tebow made it look relatively easy.
The highly touted freshman, who teams with starter Chris Leak to give Meyer maybe the nation?s best quarterback combo, ran nine times for 35 yards, including a 1-yard plunge on fourth down that evened the score at 7 in the first quarter.
Leak did the bulk of the work with another steady performance, going 17-of-26 passing for 155 yards. Tebow grabbed the highlights, unveiling another side of his game.
Although he threw nine passes in mop-up duty against Central Florida, Tebow had rarely used his left arm since.
That changed against the Tigers (4-2, 1-2).
Facing a second-and-goal play with less than a minute remaining in the first half, Tebow took the snap and ran toward the line of scrimmage. He pulled up ? much like a jump-shooter would ? doubleclutched to allow tight end Tate Casey to get open, then flipped the ball over several defenders.
Casey caught it as he fell backward.
"We?d rather our tight end not fumble around and fall down and do six push-ups and then get up and try to catch it," Meyer said. "He kind of stumbled about. It?s supposed to be much easier than that."
Casey?s catch capped a 72-yard scoring drive that followed the first of three interceptions thrown by LSU?s JaMarcus Russell. On the drive, Leak found Andre Caldwell over the middle for a 17-yard gain on third down and later connected with Jemalle Cornelius for 26 yards.
"We?ve got two great quarterbacks," Casey said. "We can do a lot with them, and it showed."
Russell finished 24-of-41 passing for 228 yards with a touchdown. But he also had four turnovers.
Tebow?s passing performance continued after halftime.
The Gators got a safety on the second-half kickoff. Early Doucet fumbled at the 3-yard line, gathered the loose ball briefly, but lost it again after he got leveled by Riley Cooper. The ball trickled into the end zone and LSU?s Trindon Holliday recovered for the safety. Five plays later, Tebow was at it again. He took a step toward the line of scrimmage to fake a run, pulled up and found Louis Murphy wide open down the middle for a 35-yard score.
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