After a blazing run in the 1990s under Coach Steve Spurrier, the University of Florida’s winning streak had dried up by 2005. Enter Urban Meyer, the Gators’ demanding new head coach whose take-no-prisoners style breeds not only a string of legendary victories, but also unrelenting drama that rippled well beyond the locker room. In their own words through extensive sit-down interviews paired with archival footage, Meyer and the titans he coached Brandon Siler, Tim Tebow, Brandon Spikes, Major Wright, Ahmad Black, and many others give viewers a bird’s-eye view of how they catapulted the Florida Gators from underdogs to winners of two BCS National Championships. Drilling down with a riveting play-by-play of some of the Gators’ most blistering wins and losses, this four-episode documentary series zooms in on these explosive years of Meyer’s reign.
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00:00 College football in the South is way bigger than professional sports.
00:06 When you come to Florida, football is the world here.
00:09 Everything is win or loser.
00:11 Anything less than winning a national title, you're a failure.
00:15 One, two, three, Go Power!
00:17 Florida was not winning.
00:19 The feeling was that getting Urban Meyer, Florida could restore what they had lost.
00:24 I needed to build this team.
00:26 Urban said, "I'm gonna treat my superstars like superstars, and I'm gonna treat my shit like shit."
00:33 They was training like we was going to Iraq.
00:36 It was unmerciful.
00:38 Our front seven, they didn't try to hit you. They tried to hurt you.
00:42 And we were the number one team in the country.
00:45 They walk around like the kings of campus, and that took over.
00:50 Called it Gaines, Vegas. In Gaines, Vegas, we party.
00:53 It's just too much temptation.
00:55 Another Florida Gator has been arrested.
00:57 We never got police reports.
00:59 It ended up just getting fixed.
01:01 You had never seen a team that was undefeated be so miserable.
01:04 People do not know what it's like to give so much to something.
01:09 Three million for the rest of our lives!
01:11 That it's everything.
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