Tim Tebow understands the pressure that comes with playing or coaching at Florida.
Tebow won a Heisman Trophy in 2007. He played on national championship teams in 2006 and 2008. Florida was 48-7 in his four seasons there with Urban Meyer, and sometimes that did not feel like enough.
“Florida is incredible, but it can also be a pressure cooker,” Tebow told Sporting News. “Listen, senior year we felt it the whole year and we had won two championships in three years and felt like we couldn’t do a thing right.”
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Tim Tebow talks Billy Napier hot seat
Tebow – who helped unveil the 2024 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team this week – knows the hot-seat questions are coming concerning Billy Napier — who fell to 12-16 in his third season with the Gators after a 33-20 loss to Texas A&M on Saturday. Tebow knows how that must feel as Florida (1-2) heads into a matchup at Mississippi State (1-2) on Saturday.
“You go to Starkville, and if you can get a win there it always helps,” Tebow said. “I think it wasn’t just the loss to Miami (in the opener). I think it was the way they lost that frustrated people.”