The football team’s national championship led a program-record tying 12 Gator athletic teams among the nation’s top 10 in 2008-09 national competition, propelling the University of Florida to third in the 2008-09 Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup. The finish matches the second-highest for the Gator program, second only to Florida’s tie for second in the 1998-99 standings.
Florida is the only program in the nation to finish among the nation’s top 10 in each of the last 26 national all-sports standings.
The complete list of Florida's 2008-09 top-10 teams includes:
· Football (No. 1)
· Softball (No. 2)
· Men's Indoor Track & Field (No. 2)
· Men's Outdoor Track & Field (No. T-2)
· Gymnastics (No. 4)
· Men's Swimming & Diving (No. 5)
· Women’s Swimming & Diving (No. 6)
· Women's Outdoor Track & Field (No. 9)
· Baseball (No. T-9)
· Soccer (No. T-9)
· Women's Tennis (No. T-9)
· Volleyball (No. T-9)
