1984 Florida Gators football team
| 1984 Florida Gators football | |
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SEC champion (vacated) | |
| Conference | Southeastern Conference |
| Ranking | |
| Coaches | No. 7 |
| AP | No. 3 |
| 1984 record | 9–1–1 (5–0–1 SEC) |
| Head coach |
Charley Pell (6th year; first 3 games) Galen Hall (1st year; last 8 games) |
| Offensive coordinator | Galen Hall (1st season) |
| Defensive coordinator | Joe Kines (4th season) |
| Home stadium | Florida Field |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 3 Florida $ | 5 | – | 0 | – | 1 | 9 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 15 LSU | 4 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 8 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 14 Auburn | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Georgia | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 19 Kentucky | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tennessee | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alabama | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vanderbilt | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ole Miss | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mississippi State | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1984 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. The season was Charley Pell's sixth and last as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. Pell was fired after the third game of the season due to numerous NCAA violations committed by him and his staff over the previous few years. New offensive coordinator Galen Hall served as interim coach for the remainder of the season. After the Gators began the season as a 1–1–1 team under Pell, Hall's 1984 Florida Gators posted a 9–1–1 overall record and a Southeastern Conference (SEC) record of 5–0–1 (8–0 and 4–0, respectively, under Hall), finishing first among ten SEC teams,[1] and were recognized as the SEC champions. The Gators finished third in the Associated Press Poll and seventh in the Coaches Poll, and were also named national champions by twenty-two publications including The New York Times and The Sporting News.
Schedule
| Date | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | |||
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| September 1 | No. 10 Miami (FL)* | No. 17 | Tampa Stadium • Tampa, FL | ESPN | L 20–32 | 72,813 | |||
| September 8 | LSU | Florida Field • Gainesville, FL | TBS | T 21–21 | 70,197 | ||||
| September 15 | Tulane* | Florida Field • Gainesville, FL | W 63–21 | 65,265 | |||||
| September 29 | Mississippi State | Florida Field • Gainesville, FL | W 27–12 | 68,186 | |||||
| October 6 | Syracuse* | Florida Field • Gainesville, FL | W 16–0 | 70,189 | |||||
| October 13 | Tennessee | No. 18 | Neyland Stadium • Knoxville, TN | W 43–30 | 94,016 | ||||
| October 20 | Cincinnati* | No. 17 | Florida Field • Gainesville, FL | W 48–17 | 73,690 | ||||
| November 3 | No. 11 Auburn | No. 13 | Florida Field • Gainesville, FL | ABC | W 24–3 | 74,397 | |||
| November 10 | No. 8 Georgia | No. 10 | Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, FL | CBS | W 27–0 | 82,349 | |||
| November 17 | Kentucky | No. 5 | Commonwealth Stadium • Lexington, KY | TBS | W 25–17 | 52,823 | |||
| December 1 | No. 12 Florida State* | No. 3 | Doak Campbell Stadium • Tallahassee, FL | ABC | W 27–17 | 58,930 | |||
*Non-conference game.  Homecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. | |||||||||
Primary source: 2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide.[1]
Postseason
On May 30, 1985, the presidents of the ten SEC-member universities voted 6–4 to vacate the Gators' 1984 SEC title and declared the team ineligible for the SEC championship during the upcoming 1985 and 1986 seasons because of the rule violations committed under Pell. The retroactive vacating of the 1984 championship, six months after the 1984 football season ended, drew an angry response from University of Florida president Marshall Criser, as well as Gators coaches, players and fans due to the retroactive nature of the decision and its perceived unfairness.[2]
References
- 1 2 2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine., University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, p. 107 (2015). Retrieved August 16, 2015.
- ↑ Associated Press, "SEC Presidents swipe Florida of football title," Times Daily, p. 5B (May 31, 1985). See also "Gators Stripped of SEC Title," The Palm Beach Post, pp. A1 & A5 (May 31, 1985). Both retrieved May 5, 2011.