1997 Sugar Bowl #3 Florida vs #1 Florida State No Huddle

[@mribbon89]

21:55 still one of the coldest moves ever

[@Triskster]

When he made that play I said he made a million dollars by improving his draft.

[@catsnchords]

Ike Hilliard was raw ;)

[@jimmyplenderleith9471]

Yeah, that play always sticks out as an all-time move to shake two guys off you. Amazing play by Hilliard.

[@gregines70x7]

Best Gator football game in my lifetime (to date). Beating one of your most-hated rivals for the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP in a rematch. And beat them down 52-20, too! Some college football fans will NEVER experience a moment like that, ever! It was "SWEEET!" Go Gators!

[@DesertGata]

10 years when this beauty took place my childhood was spoiled

[@johnmanning4097]

I thank Bob Stoops was Florida Gators defensive coordinator that year.

[@matthewlaird4009]

Yes he was

[@noodleschalepah5934]

He helped my sooners to win in 2000 orange 🍊

[@marcelthomas216]

Yep he was

[@toddosteen1633]

Yes

[@DeAngeloStevens]

This was Florida Gators' 1st Ever National Championship in 1996 until Kim Possible, Ron Stoppable, Monique, Bonnie Rockwaller, Chuckie Finster's 12th Grade Senior Year in High School 2006-07, and Cody Anderson's Senior Year in High School 2008-09.

[@DeAngeloStevens]

@@editnosmirc4489 I just said that

[@rolltide9547]

Florida only has 3 titles

[@nccamsc]

Gators surely improved in a year, going from 38-point loss against Nebraska to a 32-point win.

[@marcelthomas216]

Isaac Jason Hilliard my favorite gator of all time 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@walterlv01]

Bobby Bowden's postgame interview was classic. I believe it was Jack Arute who asked him what the difference in the game was and he said something like "uhh, well I think those punts - ya know they kept pinning us back there - we couldn't get a first down, they got I think 2 touchdowns out of that....they just beat the heck out of us in every part of football."

[@ilovekatescott8057]

I think WWE wrestler Titus O'Neil was playing in this game I think I could be wrong.

[@jessyfretz5800]

He was enrolled to UF out of HS on a full ride and redshirted that year. Even though Titus wasn't in this game he played for the Gators for four years after this.

[@edugator2242]

He was also elected as student body Vice President.

[@bigwillietheb]

I believe he was I looked him up & graduated high school in 1995 so he probably was a sophomore in college

[@shanelawter8858]

I miss the Spurrier vs Bowden games

[@rodcrawford5947]

Watch “the best game ever played in the swamp”…it was Florida and FSU. Guess who won??? 32-29…???

[@bigwillietheb]

I don't , Bowden won the majority of them

[@scottmarkham9466]

And we showed them the number 1 team was !

[@tz-xi3kr]

I still laugh that without the ACC refs they could barely score and that Dunn sat on the sidelines faking an injury rather than play in a National Championship game against their most hated rivals. Instead Dunn hid on the side lines like a punk ass bitch while fsu got dismantled without the ACC refs there to help them cheat! Classic GAME!

[@DeAngeloStevens]

As Good Ole J.R. Jim Ross would said "Someone going to the Woodshed"

[@bigwillietheb]

YOU GODDAMN RIGHT GATORS TOOK THOSE PIECES OF SHIT PULLED OUT THE LEATHER STRAPS & BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF FSU

[@bigwillietheb]

I thought it would be a slober Knocker

[@reginaldjohnson1637]

Bob stoops did a good job with Florida

[@shanew3293]

Wuerfell took fsu to the woodshed

[@tz-xi3kr]

The only reason FSU was in the game was because the crooked ACC refs helped them cheat

[@bigwillietheb]

YEAH HE SAID THERE AIN'T NO ACC REFS TO CHEAT FOR YOU LIKE IN TALLAHASSEE, but then SEC refs hate the Gators also

[@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13]

@@bigwillietheb😂😂😂

[@packersauburneric3625]

Wheres Shane Falco lmao jk

[@bigwillietheb]

yes he did

[@deathonwings89]

This game proved FSU wasnt shit with out the refs help. Florida was dominant

[@jokerhaha5123]

Bull shit, this game was a one score game just like the first game until Warrick Dunn went out at halftime. Take Danny out and let them play FSU at full strength in a rematch and the result would be similar in FSU’s favor. Not to mention several FSU defenders were suffering from flu like symptoms and the backup running back was not playing either.

[@jzenlasaar7558]

This game is way different with Dunn healthy and the defense not loaded with flu like symptoms. I still think Florida was the better team

[@bigwillietheb]

thank you , fsu could not win without the ref's help Florida should have won in 94 & 96 & 99

[@jokerhaha5123]

@@bigwillietheb That’s a crybaby take if I ever heard one. Florida was lucky to even play the noles close in 99. They lose that game 10 out of 10 times. It wouldve been a a blowout in Tallahassee. 94 the gators gave up 28 unanswered points, then lost the rematch. 96 there shouldn’t have been a rematch because the gators offense got smacked around in Tallahassee.

[@tz-xi3kr]

@@jokerhaha5123 how many yards did he have in that game before he faked an injury?

[@courtneypostlewaite9418]

Go Gators 🐊!!!!!!....

[@jeffmurray1681]

Bowden's teams always played dirty. Refs called it this game. And before you ask, I'm a Georgia fan.

[@bigwillietheb]

well your ok with me

[@heady157]

Soooooo many penalties

[@mbustube1]

I'm not saying FSU was the better team, or even as good, despite the win at Doak. But having Rock Preston flunk out was a blow, and then having Dunn and many of the other players sick with the flu didn't help. Without those two setbacks, it would have been a better game.

[@tz-xi3kr]

@@mbustube1 always an excuse when FSU loses. It was the same excuse the next year when FSU loses in the Swamp "they were all sick"...... What was the excuse for the 63-3 blow out to Georgia, they all had COVID?

[@mbustube1]

@@tz-xi3kr I didn't say they would have won, just that it would have been a better game. The regular season game certainly was. I just call them as I see them. My brother-in-law was a huge Gator fan. I was taking care of his elderly parents when the Swindle in the Swamp happened. I watched that game on TV. When he came home I said, Mike, your team got robbed--sorry that happened. As for last year, the team got what it deserved for so many players abandoning ship for $$. I'm an FSU fan, but I'm not a fanatic.

[@willhopson1277]

Nah that fsu team was really good. Problem is Florida was waaayyy too good to let the same team beat them twice in one season. FSU prob wasn’t winning that game regardless

[@mbustube1]

@@willhopson1277 I think that's what I said in the first place, isn't it?

[@tz-xi3kr]

There is that one moment when you can see on Bobby Bowdens face that he realizes, probably for the first time ever that the ref's are not going to cheat for him and you can see the soul in his eyes die. - He knew he did not belong in this game and when he realized no one was coming to help cheat for him you can see the defeat in his eyes.

[@Wilco362]

I love it. You speak nothing but the truth.

[@jokerhaha5123]

Delusional gator fans. The game was a one score game until FSU lost their best player

[@tz-xi3kr]

@@jokerhaha5123 always an excuse when the Criminoles lose. How long ago was this game and you're still making excuses..... what's the excuse for the Bowl game last year against Georgia?. Or all of this season? Or how about when the whole team magically got COVID when Kyle Trask was killing it. STFU loser.

[@willhopson1277]

Haha go gators but relax. FSU was a thorn in our side all through the 90s

[@tz-xi3kr]

@@jokerhaha5123 you mean when Dunn refused to play because he had no heart? Tim Tebow played with a broken leg in Highschool for a game that meant nothing......but Dunn...his leg was sore so he sat out after getting his ASS shut down....how many years did he have in the first half????

[@bigwillietheb]

not counting the 2 bowl games in my opinion Florida should have went 6-4 against Florida state in the 90's Florida won in 1991, 1995, 1997 the should have won in 1994, 1996, & 1999

[@jokerhaha5123]

@@bigwillietheb should’ve won in 99 ? Not quite. By that logic FSU should’ve won in 91, and 97 too.

[@bigwillietheb]

@@jokerhaha5123 WELL THEY DIDN'T OK FUCK FSU

[@jerimyfrosch3789]

Florida State Seminoles and Arizona State Sun Devils should have been in the National Championship game for 1996 because both teams were undefeated.

[@deathonwings89]

Wrong. Only lose UF had was to FSU and that's cause FSU got away with a lot of bullshit late hits and penalties the whole game. UF proved in this game they were the better team by far

[@reedgreen7]

Blame the Rose Bowl. The Pac-10 champion was contractually obligated to play in the Rose Bowl no matter what they were ranked.

[@gynandroidhead]

Should've been Nebraska playing in that game if they'd beaten Texas, but oh well. Thanks for posting

[@bennyrobinson1935]

Well they Didn't? So..

[@gynandroidhead]

@@bennyrobinson1935 No they didn't, but as a Husker fan it was an annoying, missed opportunity given that my team was tossing cookies in the Big 12 Championship Game. More importantly, it was obviously a tremendous beatdown by Florida in a revenge game, and I should've led with that in my prior message.

[@Jagnole101]

You’re right. You choked against Texas and my Noles had to play UF in the Mulligan Title game. Total garbage year. Should’ve never had to play UF twice for a title game. Beat a team them 3 weeks later you gotta play them again on astroturf. Gator fans are too incompetent to realize they got a second chance miracle. Ohio State had to also beat ASU in a minute for them to be considered champs. Luckiest garbage I’ve ever seen. FSU had players throwing up on the sideline and out of the game from a stomach bug.

[@tz-xi3kr]

@@Jagnole101 Your team sucked ass and everyone knows the ACC ref's cheated for free shoes U. The second the ACC refs were not there to cheat the GATORS BEAT YOUR SORRY ASSES................ How sad for you!

[@Jagnole101]

@@jab1289 Gator fans will never realize how lucky they were. So many things had to happen for them. It’s unfair that the team that won the first time has to win the second time…and the team that lost the first time only has to win once. Shouldn’t be legal…and based on principle alone it’s garbage

[@tz-xi3kr]

It was not even a close game when the ACC refs could not help FSU cheat!

[@jokerhaha5123]

Actually it was a one score game just like the first game up until halftime when Warrick Dunn couldn’t play anymore. Several defenders were suffering from flulike symptoms and the backup running back was unable to play as well.

[@tz-xi3kr]

@jokerhaha5123 boohoo Warrick Dunn was a crybaby and sat out like most of fsu's pussy ass team last year against Georgia.

[@tz-xi3kr]

The seminoles cheated to get to that game and when the acc ref's could not protecet them they lost like the chumps they were!

[@bigwillietheb]

YOU GODDAMN RIGHT THEY DID , THE GAME IN TALLAHASSEE SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE GATORS 28-24 BUT THAT GODDAMN REFEREE CALLED HOLDING OF FLORIDA & TOOK AWAY A TOUCHDOWN BUT THEN THEY STARTED CHEATING FOR FSU IN THE 1994 GAME WHEN FLORIDA WAS UP 31-3 IN THE 4TH QTR

[@bigwillietheb]

yes they did , this game would have not happened if it had not been for the ACC refs cheating for fsu in the 1996 game , not throwing penalty's on fsu for all the late hits on Danny Wurffel & called a touchdown back on Florida for Holding , Florida should have won 28-24 that game

[@tz-xi3kr]

This game was pathetic, without the ACC refs helping FSU cheat they are beaten like red-headed stepchildren. Dunn faked injuries because he was so afraid to play in a game without ACC refs helping him cheat, he moped up and down the sideline like a scared bitch. The Gators opened a can of whoop ass and you can see Bobby Bowden's face when he realizes he cannot cheat his way to a win and dies inside.

[@tonyt.maxxmaxwell]

NOLES4LYFE especially in 2023 are u Gaylord ready 😂😂😂😂

[@tz-xi3kr]

@@tonyt.maxxmaxwell yeah, 2024 check the score of the last game and record since you lost to Georgia 63-3!

[@ancho-31337]

Are you 12 years old?

[@tz-xi3kr]

@@ancho-31337 fsu is garbage..... So is the acc, Winston is a rapist and the fsu fans are trash. Fact's!

[@tonyt.maxxmaxwell]

Glad you found something to hold onto😂

[@tonyt.maxxmaxwell]

Hell no!!