When Jim McElwain was hired by Florida in December 2014, one of the expectations was that he would eventually make the Gators a top-10 team again.
Virtually no one thought he would take just six games to do so.
And yet, the top 10 of the AP Top 25 poll is where the Gators find themselves entering Week 7 of the 2015 season, vaulting another three spots from No. 11 to No. 8 in this week's just-released rankings.
For Florida, it's the first top-10 ranking since the 2013 preseason. The Gators shed that ranking quickly in 2013, falling to No.