The Florida Gators dropped their first game of the season on Saturday against the Kentucky Wildcats. They have a chance to bounce back quickly vs. the Tennessee Volunteers.

The heralded showdown between the No. 8 Gators and No. 1 Tennessee never evolved into a barn-burner, which requires a degree of flammability from both parties. Instead, the Gators (14-1, 1-1 SEC) held the Vols to 12 field goals — and a 4-for-29 effort from 3-point range — in a 73-43 romp before an Exactech Arena crowd of 11,011.

The last undefeated team in Division I college basketball finally fell in Gainesville Tuesday night, when the Florida Gators ran the top-ranked Tennessee Volunteers out of the O'Connell Center, 73-43.

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The Gators moved to 3-17 all-time the Associated Press’s No. 1 team, picking up their first win since the 2007 national title game against Ohio State and first home victory in six tries.

Tennessee basketball is No.1 no more. The Florida Gators greeted the Volunteers with a harsh welcome on Tuesday night, obliterating Rick Barnes’ squad, 73-43, in the Stephen C. O’Connell Center. It was a brutal beatdown that puts the program in the kind of ratified air no one wants to breathe.

Unfortunately for the Florida Gators and head coach Todd Golden, they didn’t start conference play how they had preferred with the loss to Kentucky, but that doesn’t mean all is lost for the future. The Gators will have a chance to make up for this loss with a win today against the No.