1968 Florida Gators football team

The 1968 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1968 NCAA University Division football season. The season was Ray Graves' ninth of ten years as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. The Gators offense was led by senior tailback Larry Smith, a first-team All-American. Among the season's highlights were the Gators' conference wins over the Mississippi State Bulldogs (31–14), Tulane Green Wave (24–7) and Kentucky Wildcats (16–14), and victories over the in-state rival Florida State Seminoles (9–3) and Miami Hurricanes (14–10). The Gators also suffered their worst loss since 1942—a 51–0 blowout by the Georgia Bulldogs. Graves' 1968 Florida Gators finished 6–3–1 overall and 3–2–1 in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), tying for sixth among the ten teams of the SEC.^[1]

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Source
September 21	vs. Air Force*	No. 6	Tampa Stadium Tampa, FL		W 23–20	52,626	[2]
September 28	at Florida State*	No. 5	Doak Campbell Stadium Tallahassee, FL (rivalry)	ABC	W 9–3	45,256	[3]
October 5	Mississippi State	No. 4	Florida Field Gainesville, FL		W 31–14	54,921	[4]
October 12	Tulane[n 1]	No. 7	Florida Field Gainesville, FL		W 24–7	48,106	[5]
October 19	at North Carolina*	No. 7	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC		L 7–22	28,000	[6]
October 26	at Vanderbilt	No. 15	Dudley Field Nashville, TN		T 14–14	15,500	[7]
November 2	Auburn	No. 20	Florida Field Gainesville, FL (rivalry)		L 13–24	63,122	[8]
November 9	vs. No. 9 Georgia		Gator Bowl Stadium Jacksonville, FL (rivalry)		L 0–51	70,012	[9]
November 16	at Kentucky		McLean Stadium Lexington, KY (rivalry)		W 16–14	20,000	[10]
November 30	Miami (FL)*		Florida Field Gainesville, FL (rivalry)		W 14–10	55,875	[11]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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