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1986 Florida Gators football team

The 1986 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. The season was Galen Hall's third as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. The 1986 Florida Gators compiled a 6–5 overall record and a Southeastern Conference (SEC) record of 2–4, tying for 7th place among Ten SEC teams. This was the last year that Florida lost to the Kentucky Wildcats until 2018. This was the longest annual win streak of any team over another in NCAA history and the longest such streak in Southeastern Conference history.^[1]

Schedule[edit]

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Source
August 30	No. 1(I-AA) Georgia Southern*	No. 13	Florida Field Gainesville, FL		W 38–14	74,221	[2]
September 6	No. 3Miami (FL)*	No. 13	Florida Field Gainesville, FL (rivalry)		L 15–23	74,875	[3]
September 20	No. 4Alabama	No. 13	Florida Field Gainesville, FL (rivalry)		L 7–21	74,685	[4]
September 27	atMississippi State		Scott Field Starkville, MS		L 10–16	38,625	[5]
October 4	No. 18LSU		Florida Field Gainesville, FL (rivalry)	TigerVision	L 17–28	74,211	[6]
October 11	Kent State*		Florida Field Gainesville, FL		W 52–9	73,718	[7]
October 18	atRutgers*		Giants Stadium East Rutherford, NJ		W 15–3	36,781	[8]
November 1	No. 5Auburn		Florida Field Gainesville, FL (rivalry)		W 18–17	74,521	[9]
November 8	vs. No. 19Georgia		Gator Bowl Stadium Jacksonville, FL (rivalry)		W 31–19	81,957	[10]
November 15	atKentucky		Commonwealth Stadium Lexington, KY (rivalry)		L 3–10	52,160	[11]
November 29	atFlorida State*		Doak Campbell Stadium Tallahassee, FL (rivalry)		W 17–13	62,370	[12]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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Personnel[edit]

Game summaries[edit]

Georgia Southern[edit]

Miami (FL)[edit]

Alabama[edit]

At Mississippi State[edit]

LSU[edit]

Kerwin Bell was injured during the game.^[13]

Kent State[edit]

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At Rutgers[edit]

atGiants Stadium

Auburn[edit]

For most of the game, coach Pat Dye's fifth-ranked 1986 Auburn Tigers dominated coach Galen Hall's unranked Gators at Florida Field.^[15] The Tigers defense was stifling, and forced Gators substitute quarterback Rodney Brewer to commit four turnovers in the first two quarters.^[15] Hall replaced Brewer with starting quarterback Kerwin Bell, who had missed two games with a knee injury.^[15] Tigers tailback Brent Fullwood gained 166 yards on the ground, including a second-quarter touchdown, to give Auburn a 17–0 lead early in the fourth quarter.^[15] Bell then led the Gators on two scoring drives, with Gators placekicker Robert McGinty—a transfer from Auburn—booting a 51-yard field goal to close the Tigers' advantage to 17−10 with 1:45 to play.^[16] With thirty-six seconds remaining in the game, Bell directed one final 79-yard drive in ten plays that was capped by a five-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Ricky Nattiel, who was playing with a separated shoulder.^[15] The limping Bell then surprised the Tigers defense by running in the two-point conversion and completing the comeback, with the Gators winning 18–17.^[17]

Vs. Georgia[edit]

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At Kentucky[edit]

At Florida State[edit]

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