The 2005 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 2005 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. The season was the team's first of six under head coach Urban Meyer

Urban Meyer

Urban Frank Meyer, III is an American football coach and former player. He is head football coach at Ohio State University, having been hired for the position in November 2011...

, who led the Gators to an Outback Bowl

2006 Outback Bowl

The 2006 Outback Bowl featured the Iowa Hawkeyes, and the Florida Gators. Florida came into the game under first year head coach Urban Meyer with an 8-3 record. Iowa came into the game with a 7-4 record...

 berth and an overall win-loss record of 9–3 (.750).

Pre-season

The 2005 season would open with high expectations of new head coach Urban Meyer. Fourteen starters, seven from offense and seven from defense, would return for the 2005 season. The Gators would open the season in Gainesville against Wyoming from the Mountain West Conference. This year would also be the first time former Gator coach Steve Spurrier

Steve Spurrier

Stephen Orr Spurrier is an American college football coach and player. Spurrier is the current head coach of the University of South Carolina's Gamecocks football team. He is also a former professional player and coach...

 would coach against his alma mater.

Schedule and results

^A NCAA subsequently vacated Alabama victory for major infractions of NCAA rules.

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

Wyoming

Louisiana Tech

Tennessee

Kentucky

Alabama

Mississippi State

LSU

Georgia

Vanderbilt

South Carolina

Florida State

Iowa

Outback Bowl

Coaching staff

• Urban Meyer
  Urban Meyer
  Urban Frank Meyer, III is an American football coach and former player. He is head football coach at Ohio State University, having been hired for the position in November 2011...
  
   - Head Coach - first year at UF
• Steve Addazio
  Steve Addazio
  Steve Addazio is an American college football coach and former player, and is head coach of the Temple Owls football team that represents Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
  
   - Tackles/Tight Ends - first year
• Stan Drayton
  Stan Drayton
  -Biography:Drayton was born on March 11, 1971 in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended Allegheny College where he played running back on the football team. Drayton is married to Monique Fuller and has two children.-Career:...
  
   - Running Backs - first year
• Billy Gonzales - Wide Receivers - first year
• Chuck Heater
  Chuck Heater
  Chuck Heater is an American football coach and former player. He was a running back for the University of Michigan from 1972 to 1974 and finished his playing career as the fifth all time leading rusher in Michigan Wolverines football history. Heater has been an assistant football coach at ten...
  
   - Recruiting Coordinator/Cornerbacks - first year
• John Hevesy - Centers/Guards - 0 years
• John "Doc" Holliday - Associate Head Coach/Safeties - first year
• Greg Mattison
  Greg Mattison
  Greg Mattison is an American football coach and former player in the United States. He is the current defensive coordinator for the University of Michigan football team....
  
   - Co-Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Line - first year
• Dan Mullen
  Dan Mullen
  -External links:** on Bulldog Junction's website* article on Coach Mullen as new MSU head coach* Dan Mullen goes from Trinity star QB to Mississippi State head coach...
  
   - Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks - first year
• Charlie Strong
  Charlie Strong
  Charlie R. Strong is an American college football coach and former player. Strong is a native of Arkansas and graduated from the University of Central Arkansas, where he played college football...
  
   - Assistant Head Coach/Co-Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers - sixth year

See also

• 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–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: 2005–2010. Retrieved August 23, 2011.