Tebow has been playing slightly injured

Tim Tebow suffered a hyper-extended knee in the Oct. 4 game against Arkansas, but coach Urban Meyer said Thursday it has not affected Tebow's play at all and he hasn't missed any practice time.

"It’s fine,'' Meyer said. "Go to sleep tonight knowing he’s fine."

The injury was revealed after CBS play-by-play announcer Gary Danielson said Thursday that Meyer told him Tebow had been injured earlier in the season, but Florida had kept it quiet.

"Tim Tebow was a little bit nicked early on and no one talked about it,'' Danielson said in his weekly press release for CBS. "Urban Meyer didn't even tell us (for previous CBS broadcasts). They kept it well-hidden that he had a little bit of a hyper-extended knee that he hurt early in the season. I wondered why he wasn't running like last year. He didn't seem the same. He was more of a finesse runner than a power runner. Urban Meyer had told us that he is finally 100 percent. We will see the real Tebow (Saturday).''

Meyer said the injury happened on an interception throw in the Arkansas game, and he didn't not talk about it because Tebow continued to play.

"The other day he told me he said "Boy my knee’s feeling really good.' And I was like your knee? What are you talking about? He said "well I banged it a little bit.' He’s fine, he’s 100 percent.''

Meyer said Tebow isn't one to talk about his injuries, pointing out that Tebow told him before last year's Georgia game that he was "fine.''

"I later found he couldn’t pick his arm up,'' Meyer said.

Meyer said he has not noticed any different in Tebow, including his running ability.