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Florida's Jim McElwain becomes first coach to win SEC East in first year

The Gators' coach will be going where no SEC East coach has gone before in a rookie season with a program: Atlanta.

Florida's 9-7 victory over Vanderbilt on Saturday gave the Gators their first SEC East title since 2009, and a record 11th SEC division title. Winning the East is kind of old hat for the Gators at this point; Florida's collected just under half of the 24 SEC East titles awarded to date.

But no one else had ever previously done what Jim McElwain just did with these Gators in 2015: Win the SEC East in his first year at the victorious school.