Florida has all sorts of winning streaks.
The top-ranked Gators have won a school-record 21 straight games, also the nation’s longest current streak. They’ve won 15 in a row against Southeastern Conference teams, 10 consecutive at home and eight straight against non-conference foes.
There’s one more that will take center stage this week: Florida (11-0) has won its last five games against rival Florida State (6-5), a run that seems to have the two programs considerably further apart than the 125 miles that actually separates them.
“There’s a lot of hatred,” Gators safety Ahmad Black said. “It started even before us. It goes way back to the earlier days. We’re just going to try to keep it going. We’ve won five straight, so we don’t want to be the team that loses the streak.”
The streak started in 2004, when the Gators rallied behind fired coach Ron Zook and became the first Florida team to win in Tallahassee since 1986.
Three of the four victories under coach Urban Meyer haven’t even been close, with Florida winning by scores of 34-7, 21-14, 45-12 and 45-15. The last two have been the most lopsided in the series since the Gators won by a combined score of 91-13 in 1972 and ‘73.
“Two years they’ve ripped us,” Florida State coach Bobby Bowden said Sunday. “I imagine they ripped everybody else the same way. We’re about like anybody else. We just have to play the best we can do. That’s all we can do.
“Not anybody is going to beat them with an imperfect ball game. They’re too good. We’re going to have to play the best we can play and they’re going to have to turn the ball over. Upsets are caused by turnovers. When a superior team, No. 1, is playing somebody not ranked, then the only thing that neutralizes it is turnovers.”
Bowden added that he believes the Seminoles will be able to compete — next year, after quarterback Tim Tebow graduates.
“It’ll eventually change,” Bowden said. “Nothing will last forever.”
NOTRE DAME — Charlie Weis wouldn’t blame the Fighting Irish for firing him.
“If they decide to make a change, I’d have to say I’d have a tough time arguing with that. If they decide to make a change, I’d have a tough time arguing that because 6-5 is not good enough,” the Fighting Irish coach said Sunday. “Especially when you’ve lost five games by a touchdown or less and several three-point games that went right down to the wire.
“My intent is to be here. But if that were the rationale, I mean it would be tough for me to argue with that point,” he said.
Notre Dame lost its third straight game and fell to 6-5 on Saturday with a 33-30 loss in double overtime to Connecticut on senior day in South Bend.
PRINCETON — Roger Hughes has been fired as the football coach at Princeton after 10 seasons.
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