RECORDS!
by Kerri Balabas (Oct.8, 2001)
The LSU Tigers were reduced to a mere meow as they left the field in Baton Rouge this past Saturday. The Gators beat LSU 44-15 as Mike the Tiger looked on and cried. Rex Grossman threw five touchdown passes for the second straight game and set a school record with 464 yards passing. Grossman broke the school single game passing record set by Danny Wuerffel, who passed for 462 yards against Arkansas in 1996. His five touchdown passes tied a career-high, established last week against Mississippi State.

Spurrier: "If Rex can throw the ball around like this, it's going to be difficult for the other teams to stop us, unless they can stay on the field a lot," said Gator coach Steve Spurrier in his post game remarks. "We have a chance to have a big year. We've improved a lot since the first couple of games."  For all the details: Click here

SACKS
University of Florida senior defensive end Alex Brown (White Springs, Fla.) was named the SEC’s Defensive Player of the Week on Monday for his performance last Saturday at LSU. Brown made seven tackles, four solo, and recorded nine "Big Plays" (two sacks, two blocked kicks - both PATs - and five QB hurries).

POLLS
Finally, UF replaces Miami atop the AP football poll. Personally, I can't see why it took so long - or why we aren't atop the ESPN/USA Today poll either. Let's look at Miami's schedule: Penn State, Rutgers, Pittsburgh, Troy State, Florida State, West Virgina, Temple, Boston College, Syracuse, Washington, Virginia Tech. Hmmm. Can someone tell me where Troy State is? We all know the woes of Penn State this year, Rutgers every year...WV just got the pants beat off of them, FSU - well, Bobby's having a tough year (waaaaa), and the rest? Let's just count the number of ranked teams on our schedule and compare the two.

When the BCS poll comes out, revealing that Strength of Schedule factor, all will be clear.....as roses!

NEWS
All is well for now here in So Cal as we watch the events overseas from afar...but never too far from our minds or our hearts.

Our Membership drive status: 264 Members, 148 Paid = 56.1% - merely half. Come on Gators, Get Up and ...pay your dues! We're going to need all the extra funds we can get if we end up hosting the Rose Bowl!!! 

PHOTOS
Check out the newly designed website for current photos from Saturday gatherings. If anyone has Gator photos to post, please email them to me at kerri@floridagators.org   and we'll get them posted to the site. Please make sure to include captions.

Go Gators,
Kerri