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By Times staff writer
© St. Petersburg Times, published October 29, 2000
Red, black and blue
Georgia quarterback Quincy Carter, clearly woozy after a hit by Kennard Ellis, came out of the game for one play early in the second quarter. He returned to start the next series.
Image-conscious, Spurrier no longer throws his visor. But the folder in which he carries his ball plays and his headset went airborne a couple times in the first half.
Nearly 80 uniformed police officers marched out of a tunnel to form a ring around the playing field midway through the fourth quarter. No one stormed the field.
Florida threw three interceptions in its first seven games. Against Georgia, it threw three in the first half. Freshman Rex Grossman's first two attempts were picked off.
"There wasn't any problem coming down here prior to 1990. You never heard anything about home-field advantage until some loudmouth coach from Florida started talking about it. Certainly they're not going to listen to me." -- Steve Spurrier, on Georgia's growing reluctance to play in Jacksonville after losing 10 of 11.