Spurrier's Gators rank among most hated programs

Found an interesting list posted today by the Web site Bleacher Report. It ranks college football's most hated programs during the past 25 years, and guess who made it? Yep, the mighty Gators.

Here are the qualifications used ...

"Love them or hate them, these are the 10 programs of the past quarter century that have inspired the most envy, dislike, and jealousy. We examine the specific eras during the coaching periods at the schools, not the entire time as head coach. The list is consistent regarding these two requirements, you must have multiple seasons of success and have won a national championship during the specific era examined."

The Gators of 1993-98, who went 65-10 and won a national title, came in seventh. Florida State was fourth and Miami first. You can find the entire list HERE.

Comments

[Brandon Wagner]

People hate teams who are good because they are jealous their teams isn't as good. Gator haters if you will...

[TT]

Spurrier's "Mighty" Gators?

In his coaching career at uf, he had zero wins on the road and a losing record against his biggest rival. Might want to revise "Mighty" since the word doesn't really fit.

But, back to the story - people hate Spurrier because of who he is and how he acts, there's a lot less hatred of uf since SOS left.

[Tebow]

People hated Spurrier just because he was a rude arrogant man. His teams didn't win much of anything and he got frustrated and quit.

[Jimbo Fisher]

Spurrier is a great coach and was an awesome player. It's too bad he's coaching at a mediocre program now. It's true he didn't win at FSU during his coaching career at UF, but FSU was also very good during that time. Give them credit. However, he did beat FSU in 91,95,96 (52-20 a** beating for the national championship),97 and 01. I'll take arrogance over a good ole boy who lies for his players and program. At least Spurrier is honest. By the way, Zook beat Bowden in 2004 in his final game as a Gator coach.