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Sports

Main article: Florida Gators See also: University of Florida Athletic Association

The University of Florida's intercollegiate sports teams, known as the "Florida Gators", compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). For the 2009–10 school year, the University Athletic Association budgeted more $85 million for its sports teams and facilities. Since 1986, the Gators have won twenty-three of the last twenty-six SEC All-Sports Trophies, recognizing Florida as the best overall athletics program in the SEC. Florida's sports program has ranked among the top five in the nation in twenty of the past twenty-eight years, and it is the only Division I program that has ranked among the top ten athletic programs in the country in each of the last twenty-eight years.

Florida has won a total of thirty-one team national championships, twenty-six of which are NCAA championships. Florida is one of only two Division I FBS universities to win multiple national championships in each of the two most popular NCAA sports: football (1996, 2006, 2008) and men's basketball (2006, 2007).

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Famous quotes containing the word sports:

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    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)