When Florida Gators fans think of their team’s annual series with the Kentucky Wildcats, they think first of what I have often termed simply The Streak — a 31-game, 31-year winning streak that the Gators embarked on in 1987 and that Kentucky did not snap until 2018.
It was one of the longest winning streaks in an annual series in the modern history of college football, and because it also overlapped with Florida’s dynastic periods in the 1990s under Steve Spurrier and the late 2000s under Urban Meyer, it spanned entire generations of Gators fans, many of whom have never really had any fear of Kentucky as a football program, and most of whom probably struggle to respect the Wildcats as a rising challenger in the SEC East.