Despite being a backwater in the early days of college football, Florida did very occasionally produce some great teams - notably the 1928 Florida Gators and Miami Hurricanes teams of both 1950 and 1956. These were some of the best pre-integration teams from the state.

After we finish our current series on College Football we're going to dive into uncomfortable things about the America at 250 narrative - including events like the Ocoee Massacre and Rosewood.

We will also compare the Bicentennial of 1976 to the America at 250 in 2026. Why is the storytelling so different now than it was then?

We dive into the two largest HBCU programs in Florida and discuss what they meant to civil rights and African-American athletes in the state.

To celebrate America 250 we are going to tell the true stories of what happened in Florida after joining the union in terms of African-Americans. We will go from 1845 right through the Civil Rights era.

Despite their own huge rivalry Miami and Florida State fans seem to exhibit a sense of solidarity when it comes to Florida. The same can be said for some SEC schools when it comes to Florida. Neil Blackmon joins us to examine why this is.

Neil Blackmon joins us again to discuss the historic rivalry between Florida and Miami which ended for the foreseeable future in 2025.

We continue our miniseries on Florida's college football history with a look at Bobby Bowden v Steve Spurrier and the colorful 1990's in the Florida v FSU rivalry.

We begin a short series on the history of College Football in the state discussing the early history of the rivalry between Florida and Florida State on the gridiron and the importance placed on it by both schools. In the coming weeks we will also look at the Florida-Miami rivalry and the FSU-Miami rivalry.

Neil Blackmon of Saturday Down South and an eminent historian of UF football joins us for this entire miniseries.

Kartik Krishnaiyer explains why he believes Fort Caroline represents the actual origin story of the United States - decades before Jamestown or Plymouth Rock.

What did the French colonists find in the way of plants in the northwest corner of the Florida peninsula?