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The No. 4 Florida men’s golf team teed off the 2025-26 season at the Sahalee Players Championship over the weekend, closing out with a 10th-place finish through Saturday and Sunday’s rounds. The Gators ended the first day of the tournament with junior Jack Turner tied for sixth place. Turner notched his 32nd career under-par round […] The post No. 4 Florida Men’s Golf Earns Top-10 Finish at Sahalee appeared first on WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM | 103.7 HD2 ESPN.

A record 11 SEC teams find themselves in the AP Top 25 in Week 3, even as Florida exits. In one week, the Gators went from knocking at the door of the top 10 at No. 13, to dropping out of the AP Poll entirely after Saturday’s loss to USF. Crippled by inconsistency and lack […] The post Gators Tumble Out of AP Top 25 After USF Loss appeared first on WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM | 103.7 HD2 ESPN.

The No. 12 Florida Gators volleyball team faces off against the North Carolina Tar Heels at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the SEC-ACC Showdown at the Net. The two-day event features all 16 SEC and 16 of the 18 ACC teams playing against one another. The event marks Florida’s first time playing in Chapel Hill, N.C. […] The post Florida Volleyball Faces North Carolina in SEC-ACC Showdown appeared first on WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM | 103.7 HD2 ESPN.

In the past week, the Florida Gators have been on opposite sides of 2-1 soccer scores. After a 2-1 win against Florida Gulf Coast on Thursday, the Gators fought hard yet fell to Georgia State 2-1 on Sunday at Dizney Stadium. The game was delayed by an hour due to detected lightning in the area. […] The post Gators Soccer Finishes Non-Conference Play With Loss to Georgia State appeared first on WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM | 103.7 HD2 ESPN.

USF is a true underdog story — an unranked team defeating one of the highest ranked squads in the SEC. Not to mention, in one of the most notoriously difficult environments in college football. That’s what happened Saturday when the Bulls left The Swamp victorious, beating then-No. 13 Florida 18-16 on a game-winning field goal. […] The post WATCH: USF Coaches Celebrate in Elevator After Upsetting Florida appeared first on WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM | 103.7 HD2 ESPN.

The Back Nine comes at you after a sweaty pre-game Saturday and a stinky game in The Swamp. And that was just me in the press box. 10. I’m just going to say this and you can take it any way you want to — Gator fans deserve better than this. The 14thstraight sellout was […] The post Dooley’s Back Nine: Florida Football Fans Deserve Better appeared first on WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM | 103.7 HD2 ESPN.

Fresh off a disappointing loss to USF Saturday, Florida will have to lick its wounds and regroup before heading down to the Bayou to face No. 3 LSU. At this moment, both programs seem to be heading in opposite directions. LSU (2-0) already has a then top-10 road win over No. 12 Clemson and took […] The post Gators Open as Near Double-Digit Underdog vs. LSU appeared first on WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM | 103.7 HD2 ESPN.

Pat Dooley from The Tailgate Show on WRUF brings you the second chapter of Grading the Gators after Saturday night’s deflating 18-16 loss to unranked South Florida at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium: OFFENSE F FIRST HALF: The good news was that Florida (1-1) scored on every possession. The bad news was that they only had […] The post Dooley Grades The Gators: Debacle at Swamp appeared first on WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM | 103.7 HD2 ESPN.

The USF Bulls came into The Swamp in 2022 and missed a field goal to send the game to overtime. They got a chance to redeem themselves and delivered Saturday night. The No. 13 Florida Gators lost on a last-second field goal to unranked USF in an ugly 18-16 game on a muggy, windy afternoon […] The post No. 13 Florida Shocked by USF in Last-Second Loss appeared first on WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM | 103.7 HD2 ESPN.

From inexcusable penalties to head-scratching coaching decisions and poor execution on offense and defense, everything that could have gone wrong for No. 13 Florida (1-1) went wrong in Saturday’s disastrous 18-16 loss to USF. “I want to keep it short and sweet. I think that we can do much better, we can coach better, we […] The post Five Takeaways from Florida’s Disastrous USF Loss appeared first on WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM | 103.7 HD2 ESPN.