Steve Spurrier ignited the Florida-Tennessee rivalry, but he can find a silver lining to it falling off the annual SEC schedule.

Spurrier owned and infuriated Tennessee as Florida's coach, but he now supports the Vols as long as they're not playing a team he coached.

Florida-Tennessee was one of college football's defining games in 1990s.

Steve Spurrier lets me in on a secret. Well, it’s not a secret, exactly, but it might surprise Tennessee fans to know the Head Ball Coach pulls for the Volunteers . Mostly, anyway.

That’s right, the Florida coach who tormented Tennessee and Phillip Fulmer throughout the 1990s, who famously said you can’t spell Citrus without U-T, likes seeing the Vols do well.

“I pull for Tennessee a lot, since that’s my home state and everything,” Spurrier to

See Full Page