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GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- "Several days after top-ranked Florida secured a spot in the Southeastern Conference championship game, receiver David Nelson insisted some of his teammates didn't even know they had clinched the Eastern Division.
Yeah, right.
The Gators (8-0, 6-0 SEC) spent the entire season talking about getting back to Atlanta, realizing it was the first step toward repeating as national champs. They celebrated last week's 41-17 win over rival Georgia in frenzied fashion, then wrapped up the East a few hours later when Tennessee beat South Carolina.
Atlanta never came up? Not in the locker room? Not over dinner? Not around campus?
"I don't even know if half our team even knows that yet," Nelson said. "We haven't talked about it. It hasn't been a subject of conversation between us."
Coach Urban Meyer would prefer that his players don't even think about it, especially with four games remaining before the SEC title game. Florida's challenge the rest of the month, beginning Saturday night against struggling Vanderbilt (2-7, 0-5), is to stay motivated and avoid a letdown.
"Our team is focused," quarterback Tim Tebow said. "We know that every week we're going to get teams' best and we're going to have to play well, we're going to have to compete, we're going to have to fight to win, pretty much like we've had to every game this year and we're ready for that.
"We're not going to be complacent. ... It's college football. Anything can happen any Saturday, and we know that and we're going to be prepared for it."
Link: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1320474.html
Yeah, right.
The Gators (8-0, 6-0 SEC) spent the entire season talking about getting back to Atlanta, realizing it was the first step toward repeating as national champs. They celebrated last week's 41-17 win over rival Georgia in frenzied fashion, then wrapped up the East a few hours later when Tennessee beat South Carolina.
Atlanta never came up? Not in the locker room? Not over dinner? Not around campus?
"I don't even know if half our team even knows that yet," Nelson said. "We haven't talked about it. It hasn't been a subject of conversation between us."
Coach Urban Meyer would prefer that his players don't even think about it, especially with four games remaining before the SEC title game. Florida's challenge the rest of the month, beginning Saturday night against struggling Vanderbilt (2-7, 0-5), is to stay motivated and avoid a letdown.
"Our team is focused," quarterback Tim Tebow said. "We know that every week we're going to get teams' best and we're going to have to play well, we're going to have to compete, we're going to have to fight to win, pretty much like we've had to every game this year and we're ready for that.
"We're not going to be complacent. ... It's college football. Anything can happen any Saturday, and we know that and we're going to be prepared for it."
Link: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1320474.html
