April 28, 2021
Despite the late-season slump, Florida finished in the top 15 of the AP Poll for the third consecutive season. Can you guess when the last time the program pulled that off?
You probably can: it was Urban Meyer’s tenure-starting run from 2005-09. However, that only works with the AP Poll specifically. Meyer’s 2005 and 2007 teams both finished 16th in the Coaches’ Poll, which means Meyer didn’t get three consecutive consensus top-15 poll finishes even once.
Dan Mullen has done it, with the 2020 squad’s No. 12 finish in the Coaches’ Poll and No. 13 finish in the AP to go with a pair of top-seven finishes in 2018 and 2019. The Gators’ last consensus top-15 run before Mullen, therefore, was the end of Steve Spurrier’s tenure. The Head Ball Coach never had a team finish below the No. 13 AP Poll rank that his first team had in 1990.
Saturday was an excellent day to wear red in Athens as some 20,000 members of the Georgia Bulldog Nation celebrated G-Day in the early afternoon and a decidedly scarlet-clad group gathered later in the day to salute the birthday of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, who turned 81 on Friday.
Local artist Stan Mullins threw open the doors of his expansive Pulaski Street studio Saturday evening to host the birthday party, complete with a cake featuring Denmark’s distinctive Dannebrog (flag) and an international guest list that included visitors from Denmark, Canada, Lichtenstein, Hungary and Taiwan.
Mullins, who in pre-pandemic days had made his creative space available for weddings and events for years, admitted he was quite excited about being able to host an event again.
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