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Your Guide To:
Gainesville Florida
Your Guide to Hotels, Restaurants, Tickets, Tours and More!
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About Gainesville
Seat of north central Florida's Alachua County, Gainesville is best known as home of the University of Florida. This well-regarded public school, lair of the Fighting Gators, not only imparts a youthful vigor to the city of approximately 115,000 but is also the county's largest employer. The town itself sits amid pine... [read more]
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Gainesville Factoid
Although officially known as Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, UF's 88,548-seat football facility is more familiarly known as "the Swamp." This name for the stadium is attributed to Steve Spurrier, head football coach from 1990-2001 and a former Gator quarterback who won the 1966 Heisman Trophy. The Swamp is the site of intense gridiron match-ups between the blue and orange-clad Gators and rival teams like the Florida State Seminoles and the Tennessee Vols.
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