Florida vs. The Citadel

Florida and The Citadel have 14 meetings on file, the first in 1910; Florida leads the series 14–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Florida 10–⁠0, and Florida has won the last 14.

Florida wins
14
The Citadel wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1910
Longest streak
14 Florida
Current streak
14 Florida
Last 10 meetings
Florida 10–⁠0
Most recent
2008

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s5–⁠0
1930s2–⁠0
1940s1–⁠0
1950s4–⁠0
1990s1–⁠0
2000s1–⁠0
Average margin
20 points; 6 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Florida
13–⁠0 Florida’s record at home
At The Citadel
0–⁠1 The Citadel’s record at home
Shutouts
5

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Florida’s biggest win1953: Florida 60, The Citadel 0by 60 points
  2. Upset1910: Florida 6, The Citadel 2Florida had a 25% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsFloridaSeriesThe Citadel
1950–⁠1952Bob Woodruff3–⁠0J. Quinn Decker

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Florida’s side (Woodruff 3–⁠0 against Decker). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Florida and The Citadel, 1910 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

From the newspapers

  • The The Ocala evening star's story of the 1911 game: GAINESVILLE WON THE GAME University of Florida Bested the Citadel Of Charleston on the GrfdIron

    1911 · The Ocala evening star, Ocala, Fla., Oct 9, 1911

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Nov 22, 20083Florida 70, The Citadel 19at Florida
Sep 5, 19983Florida 49, The Citadel 10at Florida
Oct 17, 1953Florida 60, The Citadel 0at Florida
Oct 4, 1952Florida 33, The Citadel 0at Florida
Sep 22, 1951Florida 27, The Citadel 7at Florida
Sep 23, 1950Florida 7, The Citadel 3at Florida
Sep 24, 1949Florida 13, The Citadel 0at Florida
Oct 3, 1936Florida 20, The Citadel 14at Florida
Oct 15, 1932Florida 27, The Citadel 7at Florida
Nov 13, 1915Florida 6, The Citadel 0at Florida
Nov 14, 1914Florida 7, The Citadel 0at The Citadel
Nov 15, 1913Florida 18, The Citadel 13at Florida
Oct 7, 1911Florida 15, The Citadel 3at Florida
Nov 5, 1910Florida 6, The Citadel 2at Florida

Every game is listed as played on the field.