The Citadel has won just four games this season, and has lost five of its last seven games, but Florida quarterback Tim Tebow said there's absolutely no reason the team shouldn't come in expecting to knock off No. 3 Florida on Saturday.

"You have to (have that mentality),'' Tebow said earlier this week. "You have to believe that you are going to go out there and you believe that your team has a chance to win and go out there and play. That's why you play the game, right?''

With so much at stake for Florida, Tebow said he thinks the Citadel players see just playing the Gators as a great opportunity.

"I think they are defintely excited to get an opportunity to play a Top 5 team, and come to the Swamp and play,'' Tebow said. "Coach Tim Higgins, I know him a little bit. He'll do a great job coaching them and their players have a lot of character and they are going to play hard. We'll have to come ready to play and play hard.''

Florida RB/WR Percy Harvin this week was named the AT&T All-America Player of the Week, the only major award in which players are chosen exclusively by fans.

Harvin claimed the honor after he rushed for a career-high 167 yards
and two touchdowns in the Gators' 56-6 win over No. 24 South Carolina. He received nearly 35 percent of the votes to beat out Iowa RB Shonn Greene (33 percent), Houston QB Case Keenum (19 percent) and Oregon State WR James Rodgers (13 percent). Each of the players was nominated by ESPN for this week's award.

In December, four finalists for the AT&T All-America Player of the Year
Award will be announced during a one-hour special on ESPN in conjunction with the announcement of the AT&T ESPN All-America Team as selected by the Football Writers Association of America. Fans will then get a chance to say who the best player in the nation is by voting for the AT&T All-America Player of the Year through the BCS. Voting ends at noon ET on Jan. 6, and the winner will be announced during the BCS National Championship game on Jan. 8.

Defensive tackle Brandon Antwine has been nominated for the 2008 FedEx Orange Bowl/FWAA Courage Award, which will be presented at the end of the season to a college football player who has displayed courage on or off the field, including overcoming an injury or physical handicap, preventing a disaster or living through hardship.

A redshirt sophomore from Garland, Texas, Antwine has overcome kidney failure and a significant muscular breakdown in his lower back to return to football.

In October 2007, Antwine suffered symptoms of dehydration along with pain in his lower back. He was taken to the hospital, and acute kidney failure was discovered. Further examination revealed the kidney troubles resulted from a rare muscle failure called lumbar spine myonecrosis, a loss of blood pressure that kills muscular cell fibers.

Essentially a muscle in his lower back had died. Normal kidney function returned in several days, but the pain in his back got worse.

Antwine spent several weeks in a wheelchair, then had to relearn how to walk. The process included therapy in a swimming pool, followed by learning to balance and then walking with a cane.

Although he wasn't cleared for full contact until the second week of September, Antwine has contributed this season as a backup nose tackle.

The Courage Award was created by ESPN The Magazine's senior writer Gene Wojciechowski, and will be awarded in December.

Junior LB Brandon Spikes is among five finalists for the 2008 Bronko Nagurski Trophy, announced Wednesday by the Football Writers Association of America and the Charlotte Touchdown Club.

The award is annually given to the nation's best college defensive football player. The winner will be announcedon Dec. 7.

The other finalists are: TCU DE Jerry Hughes, USC LB Rey Maualuga, Texas DE Brian Orakpo and Wake Forest CB Alphonso Smith.

The FWAA award is named after Nagurski, who dominated college football at Minnesota as a fullback and tackle from 1927-29.

HERE IS A SNAPSHOT OF WHAT EACH FINALIST HAS ACCOMPLISHED THIS SEASON:

Jerry Hughes, TCU, 6-2, 248, Junior (Sugar Land, Texas): He leads the nation with 14 sacks, is seventh in the nation with 17.5 tackles for loss, while tying for fifth with five forced fumbles. He also has three fumble recoveries. Hughes has two interceptions, including one returned for a touchdown. He was the Walter Camp Football Foundation and FWAA/Bronko Nagurski National Defensive Player of the Week after his four sacks and two forced fumbles in a 32-7 win over previously unbeaten BYU. He is a three-time Mountain West Conference Defensive Player of the Week this season. Hughes anchors a TCU defense that leads the nation in rushing defense (39.5 yards per game), sacks (40) and total defense (220.0 yards per game) and is third in scoring defense (11.0 points per game).

Rey Maualuga, USC, 6-2, 260, Senior (Eureka, Calif): He leads USC with 66 tackles and has also intercepted two passes (including a 48-yarder for a touchdown in a victory over Ohio State). He has 2.5 tackles for 11 yards in losses. He has broken up a pass and has registered a quarterback hurry. He spearheads a USC defense that is ranked second nationally in total defense, first in scoring defense, sixth in rushing defense, and first in pass defense and pass efficiency defense. The Trojans have allowed just 10 touchdowns in 2008 and 83 total points (only 19 points in second halves of games), and have posted three shutouts. Eight of USC's 10 opponents in 2008 have been limited to 100 or less rushing yards and under 250 total yards.

Brian Orakpo, Texas, 6-4, 260, Senior (Houston, Texas): He is the defensive leader for the Longhorns, who rank fourth nationally in rushing defense. He has 35 tackles (26 unassisted), a team-high nine sacks (which is tied for ninth nationally), 13.5 tackles for loss, 23 pressures and three forced fumbles this season. Facing Oklahoma pre-season All-America tackle Phil Loadholt, Orakpo posted seven tackles, two sacks, four tackles for loss, two quarterback pressures and a forced fumble in leading then No. 5 Texas to a 45-35 win over No. 1 Oklahoma. Orakpo's pressure and near sack in the end zone of Chase Daniel forced an interception that gave Texas the ball at the Missouri 15-yard line and set up a touchdown in No. 1 Texas' 56-31 win over No. 12 Missouri. Matching up with top NFL draft prospect Russell Okung, Orakpo registered six tackles, one sack, two tackles for loss and two pressures in No. 1 Texas' 28-24 win over No. 7 Oklahoma State. Orakpo turned in two tackles, a tackle for loss and two pressures before going down with a knee injury early in the second half at No. 6 Texas Tech. He has missed the better part of 2 1/2 games with a knee injury.

Alphonso Smith, Wake Forest, 5-9, 190, Senior (Pahokee, Fla.): He leads the nation with 18 passes defended. He has five interceptions in 2008 with 28 yards in returns, tied for third in the ACC. He is one shy of tying for the ACC record for career interceptions (20) with former North Carolina star Dré Bly, who also was an FWAA All-American. Smith had an interception against Baylor and another against Florida State and returned it 18 yards. His interception against Clemson was returned nine yards. He had two interceptions vs. Duke, including one in the end zone that sealed a 33-30 victory over the Blue Devils. He has broken up 13 passes this season.

Brandon Spikes, Florida, 6-3, 245, Junior (Shelby, N.C.): One of only three linebackers in the nation with two interception returns for touchdowns this season. He leads the team with 70 tackles on the season, including 8.0 for a losses of 27 yards. He intercepted a pass in the first quarter against South Carolina and returned it 12 yards for his second touchdown of the year. Spikes led the Gators with seven tackles against Vanderbilt, including two for a loss of eight yards and was named the SEC Defensive Player of the Week for his performance against LSU, where he had his first career interception in the first quarter. On the first play of the fourth quarter, he added his second interception, which he returned 52 yards for his first career touchdown. He had a streak of 11 consecutive games with a tackle for loss end against LSU. Against Ole Miss, he had eight tackles in the first half for the second game in a row on his way to a season-high 13 tackles. He made his season debut against Miami and recorded a game-high 11 tackles, including 1.5 for a loss of three yards. He is a starter at middle linebacker who missed the first game due to a foot injury. Spikes has 37 unassisted tackles and 33 assisted tackles.

Nick Kasa, a defensive end from Broomfield (Colo.) Legacy High orally committed to the Gators late Monday night.

He becomes the 13th oral commitment Florida has received for the 2009 season.

The 6-foot-7, 245-pound Kasa is a five-star prospect, according to Scout.com. Rivals ranks him as the No. 5 strongside DE prospect. He had a total of 19 sacks in his sophomore and junior seasons.

Junior WB/RB Percy Harvin was named the SEC Offensive Player of the Week by the league office on Monday, while teammate Jermaine Cunningham was named the Defensive Lineman of the Week.

Both were honored for their outstanding performances in Florida's 56-6 victory over South Carolina.

Harvin rushed for a career-high 167 yards, scoring a career-tying two rushing rushing touchdowns, in Florida’s 56-6 win over South Carolina.

Harvin’s 167 yards rushing against the Gamecocks are the most by any wide receiver in the nation this year against a Top 25 team. He has scored a touchdown in the past 12 games he has played in, tying for a national-best. His 80-yard rushing TD against South Carolina was a career-long.

Harvin leads the nation in yards per carry (9.2 / min. 5 carries per game).

Cunningham had a game-high eight tackles, including two for losses (-5 yards). He also had a forced fumble and a pass deflection and registered a half-sack (-2 yards).

The Gator defense limited South Carolina to only 53 yards rushing and did not allow USC to get into Florida territory until just over 11 minutes left in the second quarter. Florida held USC to three-and-out on eight possessions.

Florida remained at No. 4 in this week’s BCS rankings, and at No. 3 in the AP and USA Today Coaches poll. The Gators received one first-place vote in the USA Today Coaches Poll. The computers, however, are a little less kind. Florida is No. 5 behind undefeated Utah (4), Texas (3), Alabama (2) and Texas Tech (1).

Things could shake up considerably this weekend when No. 1 Texas Tech travels to No. 5 Oklahoma.

INJURY UPDATE: OL Jason Watkins (concussion) is probable for this week's game against The Citadel. OL Carl Johnson (MCL) is still questionable. Brandon Spikes (ankle) is "fine,'' coach Urban Meyer said.