The 1992 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1992 NCAA Division I-A football season. The season was Steve Spurrier's third as the Florida Gators football team's head coach, and the wins were harder to come by as the star-studded senior classes from 1990 and 1991 had graduated. The Gators racked up six tough Southeastern Conference (SEC) wins over the Kentucky Wildcats (35–19), LSU Tigers (28–21), Auburn Tigers (24–9), seventh-ranked Georgia Bulldogs (26–24), South Carolina Gamecocks (14–9), and Vanderbilt Commodores (41–21). They also suffered two crushing SEC losses to the fourteenth-ranked Tennessee Volunteers (14–31) in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the twenty-fourth-ranked Mississippi State Bulldogs (6–30) on a Thursday night in Starkville, Mississippi.

The Gators' non-conference schedule included a homecoming victory over the Louisville Cardinals (31–17), and another surprisingly difficult win over Southern Miss Golden Eagles (24–20). They closed their regular season with a road loss to the third-ranked Florida State Seminoles (24–45) in Tallahassee.

The Gators finished their SEC schedule with a 6–2 conference record, placing first among the six teams of the new SEC Eastern Division and earning a berth in the first-ever SEC Championship Game in Birmingham, Alabama. Spurrier's scrappy young Gators, however, fell short against the SEC Western Division champion, the second-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide (21–28). The Crimson Tide later defeated the Miami Hurricanes in the Sugar Bowl to win the 1992 national championship.

Spurrier's 1992 Florida Gators posted a 9–4 overall record, concluding their season with a victory over the twelfth-ranked NC State Wolfpack (27–10) in the Gator Bowl, and ranking tenth in the final AP Poll.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Source
September 12	Kentucky	No. 4	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Gainesville, FL	JPS	W 35–19	84,553
September 19	at No. 14 Tennessee	No. 4	Neyland Stadium Knoxville, TN (rivalry)	ABC	L 14–31	97,137
October 1	at No. 24 Mississippi State	No. 13	Scott Field Starkville, MS	ESPN	L 6–30	38,886
October 10	LSU	No. 23	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Gainesville, FL (rivalry)	JPS	W 28–21	83,401
October 17	Auburn	No. 23	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Gainesville, FL (rivalry)	ABC	W 24–9	84,098
October 24	Louisville*	No. 20	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Gainesville, FL		W 31–17	84,476
October 31	vs. No. 7 Georgia	No. 20	Gator Bowl Stadium Jacksonville, FL (rivalry)	ABC	W 26–24	82,429
November 7	Southern Miss*	No. 14	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Gainesville, FL		W 24–20	82,882	[3]
November 14	South Carolina	No. 11	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Gainesville, FL	JPS	W 14–9	84,777
November 21	at Vanderbilt	No. 9	Vanderbilt Stadium Nashville, TN	JPS	W 41–21	32,279
November 28	at No. 3 Florida State*	No. 6	Doak Campbell Stadium Tallahassee, FL (rivalry)	ABC	L 24–45	68,311
December 5	vs. No. 2 Alabama	No. 12	Legion Field Birmingham, AL (SEC Championship) (rivalry)	ABC	L 21–28	83,091	[4]
December 31	vs. No. 12 NC State*	No. 14	Gator Bowl Stadium Jacksonville, FL (Gator Bowl)	TBS	W 27–10	71,233
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Primary source: 2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide.^[2]

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