Some Gators fan were curious how it may have changed their team’s fortune — one of them not being Steve Spurrier, who already had a Heisman winner in hand.
Spurrier said this week from his home in Crescent Beach, Fla: “Peyton probably did (almost choose Florida), but it doesn’t really make any difference if he did or didn’t. The best place for him was at Tennessee because we had Danny Wuerffel and Eric Kresser.”
Writing in his forthcoming autobiography, “Head Ball Coach,” due out later this year, Spurrier said:
“When decision time came, I remember Coach (Bob) Sanders (UF’s outside linebacker coach) saying, ‘Coach, Peyton’s going to Tennessee.