Editing University of Florida (section)

===Football===
{{main|Florida Gators football}}

[[File:BenHillGriffinStadium.png|left|thumb|Aerial of [[Ben Hill Griffin Stadium]], also known as "The Swamp."]]

The University of Florida fielded its first official varsity football team in the fall of 1906, when the university held its first classes on its new Gainesville campus. Since then, the [[Florida Gators football]] team has played in 40 bowl games, won three consensus national championships and eight [[Southeastern Conference]] (SEC) championships, produced 89 first-team All-Americans, 45 [[National Football League]] (NFL) first-round draft choices, and three [[Heisman Trophy]] winners.

The Gators won their first post-season game on January 1, 1953, beating Tulsa 14–13 in Jacksonville, Florida. The Gators' first major bowl win was the 1967 [[Orange Bowl]] in which coach [[Ray Graves]] and [[Heisman Trophy]] quarterback [[Steve Spurrier]] led the Gators to a 27–12 victory over the [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football|Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets]].

In the 1980s, Gators football coach [[Charley Pell|Charlie Pell]] became the target of disdain by University of Miami football coach [[Howard Schnellenberger]] and Florida State football coach [[Bobby Bowden]], who equally despised Pell because of his notoriously bad attitude. Their mutual hatred of Pell made the Hurricanes-Seminoles rivalry earn the nickname of "The Friendly Rivalry."

In 1990, Spurrier returned to his [[alma mater]] as its new head coach, and spurred the Gators to their first six official SEC football championships. The Gators, quarterbacked by their second Heisman Trophy winner, [[Danny Wuerffel]], won their first national championship in 1996 with a 52–20 victory over [[Florida State Seminoles football|Florida State Seminoles]] in the [[1997 Sugar Bowl|Sugar Bowl]]. In 2006, [[Urban Meyer]] coached the Gators to a 13–1 record, capturing their seventh [[SEC Championship]], and defeating the top-ranked [[Ohio State Buckeyes football|Ohio State Buckeyes]] 41–14 for the [[2007 BCS National Championship Game|BCS National Championship]]. In 2008, the Gators' third Heisman-winning quarterback, [[Tim Tebow]], led them in a 24–14 [[2009 BCS National Championship Game|BCS Championship Game]] victory over the [[Oklahoma Sooners football|Oklahoma Sooners]] for the team's third national championship.

Since 1930, the Gators' home field has been Florida Field at [[Ben Hill Griffin Stadium]], which seats 88,548 fans. The stadium is popularly known as "The Swamp".