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The most important Gators game of the 2000s

It was all Urban Meyer could do to keep his team from getting into a brawl. He was frantically grabbing players, urging his Gators to not engage with Georgia in its antics.

“I don’t know if I’ve ever been more angry,” Meyer said to the SEC Network in 2019. “I kept grabbing our guys, I thought there was going to be a fight. I thought the benches were going to clear, and they probably should have.”

Georgia had just driven down the field on its opening drive in the 2007 Florida-Georgia game. Knowshon Moreno dove into the endzone, giving the Bulldogs the lead.