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Entries in John Brantley (3)

Saturday
Sep042010

SEC Preview: Alabama Beats Florida ... Twice

By JOHN P. WISE
One Great Season

Perfect evidence backing the claim that great teams reload — they don't rebuild — can be found in Gainesville and Tuscaloosa, where three of the last four national championship trophies call home.

Florida and Alabama look poised to meet again in the SEC championship game, possibly with yet another BCS title game appearance at stake.

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Monday
Aug232010

No. 5: Florida Gators

Urban Meyer

The One Great Season College Football Countdown continues Monday. We'll be counting down the preseason Top 25 teams in 2010. Today's No. 5 is Florida.

By JOHN P. WISE
One Great Season

Everyone knows Florida's Urban Meyer can recruit, he can coach and he can win big football games. But he's never been asked to coach a team after a health scare, a leave of absence, a reversal of the leave of absence and then the departures of Tim Tebow and 10 other starters.

Meanwhile, John Brantley might be the nation's best-known quarterback never to have been a regular starter. He fills Tebow's big shoes in 2010, but those in the Gator camp have been high on him since his decorated prep career and they expect him to man the quarterback controls well this year.

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Monday
Oct052009

LSU's Les Miles Wishes Tebow Well

By JOHN P. WISE
One Great Season

BATON ROUGE, La. -- In most cases, a coach of one team heaping praise on the backup quarterback of another team is merely an exercise in gamesmanship.

But at the LSU football weekly media luncheon Monday, you knew coach Les Miles was sincere in his flattery of No. 1 Florida's John Brantley, who would start in Saturday's heavyweight bout at No. 4 LSU if Tim Tebow can't answer the bell.

Below is a quick soundbite from Miles about how comfortable he thinks Florida is at the quarterback position, and in the video clip below that, the coach says he hopes Tiger Stadium will prove to be Death Valley for Florida, as it did the last time the Gators visited in 2007.