The 2002 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida

University of Florida

The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

 in the sport of American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 during the 2002 college football season. The Gators competed in Division I-A of the National Collegiate Athletic Association

National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

 (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference

Southeastern Conference

The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference that operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama...

 (SEC), and played their home games at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium

Ben Hill Griffin Stadium

Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at Florida Field is the football stadium for the University of Florida and the home field of the university's Florida Gators football team. It is located on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. The stadium was originally built in 1930, and has been regularly...

 on the university's Gainesville, Florida

Gainesville, Florida

Gainesville is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Alachua County, Florida, United States as well as the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The preliminary 2010 Census population count for Gainesville is 124,354. Gainesville is home to the sixth...

 campus. They were led by first-year head coach Ron Zook

Ron Zook

Ron Zook is a former American football coach and former player. He served as the head football coach at the University of Florida from 2002 to 2004 and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005 to 2011. Zook is a native of Ohio and an alumnus of Miami University, where he...

, who coached them to a second-place finish in the SEC East, an Outback Bowl

2003 Outback Bowl

The 2003 Outback Bowl was a college football bowl game held on January 1, 2003 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The Michigan Wolverines, third place finishers in the Big Ten Conference, defeated the Florida Gators, who finished second the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference,...

 berth, and an overall record of 8–5 (.615).

Schedule and results

Sources: 2011 Florida Gators Football Media Guide, and GatorZone.com.

Coaching staff

• Ron Zook
  Ron Zook
  Ron Zook is a former American football coach and former player. He served as the head football coach at the University of Florida from 2002 to 2004 and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005 to 2011. Zook is a native of Ohio and an alumnus of Miami University, where he...
  
   - Head Coach
• Ed Zaunbrecher
  Ed Zaunbrecher
  Ed Zaunbrecher is the former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Northeast Louisiana University, now the University of Louisiana at Monroe, from 1994 to 1998, compiling a record of 20–36...
  
  - Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks
• John Thompson (American football) - Defensive Coordinator
• Mike Woodford - Defense
• Jerry “Red” Anderson
  Jerry Anderson (football coach)
  Jerry Anderson is a former head coach of the Central Florida college football program from 1984.-Head coaching record:-References:...
  
   - Defensive
• Joe Wickline - Offensive Line
• Dwayne Dixon
  Dwayne Dixon
  Dwayne Keith Dixon is a former American college and professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League and Arena Football League...
  
   - Wide Receivers
• Larry Fedora
  Larry Fedora
  -References:...
  
   - Running Backs
• Jerry Odom - Inside Linebackers
• Tyke Tolbert - Tight Ends/Recruiting Coordinator

Season links

1. Schedule/Results - http://gatorzone.com/sched.php?sport=footb

2. Coaching Staff - http://gatorzone.com/football/bios.php?year=2002

See also

• Auburn–Florida football rivalry
• Florida–Florida State football rivalry
• Florida Gators
  Florida Gators
  The Florida Gators are the intercollegiate sports teams that represent the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida. The "Lady Gators" is an alternative nickname sometimes used by the Gators women's teams...
  
  
• Florida–LSU football rivalry
• Florida–Miami football rivalry
• Florida–Tennessee football rivalry
• Florida vs. Georgia Football Classic
• History of the University of Florida
  History of the University of Florida
  The history of the University of Florida is firmly tied to the history of public education in the state of Florida. The University of Florida, colloquially known as "Florida" or "UF," originated as several distinct institutions that were merged to create a single state-supported university by the...
  
  
• List of Florida Gators football players

External links

• College Football Data Warehouse, Florida Yearly Results: 2000–2004. Retrieved April 30, 2011.