Todd Golden has a chance Wednesday night to join Billy Donovan as the only coaches in UF history to win five straight SEC road games.
Gators Seek Fifth Straight Road Win
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 | Men's Basketball, Chris Harry
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By: Chris Harry, Senior Writer
ATHENS, Ga. – They opened the Southeastern Conference season with a disappointing performance (and loss) at Missouri. The Florida Gators built a double-digit lead in the first half, but let the Tigers creep back into the game, take the lead and eventually hold on for a 76-74 upset of the reigning NCAA champions, much to the delight of a packed Mizzou Arena.
The Gators' road trips – and their demeanor away from home – have been considerably different since. Isaiah Brown
"You have come out with an underdog mentality and a chip on your shoulder," UF sophomore guard Isaiah Brown said. "You're already at a disadvantage playing in front of their crowd, so you have to come together as a team, keep calm and collected, and overcome whatever happens."
That was Brown's take late Saturday night after the Gators wrecked rocking Reed Arena with a virtual wire-to-wire 86-67 dismantling of Texas A&M. That house call came 10 days after UF laid waste to South Carolina 95-47 on Jan. 28 in what was the program's most-lopsided road victory in Southeastern Conference history.
Roll in the week back in early January when Florida won 96-79 at Oklahoma and chased it four days later with an 98-94 triumph at then-SEC leading Vanderbilt and the team has won four consecutive games on the SEC road, matching the third-longest such streak in program history.
Their next shot comes Wednesday night when the 14th-ranked Gators (17-6, 8-2), winners of three overall and nine of their previous 10, take on Georgia (17-6, 5-5) at sold-out Stegeman Coliseum, where they'll not only try to run their road streak to five in a row, but also remain atop the league standings and continue their climb up the all-important computer rankings.
The computers love road wins, especially the way the Gators have been winning them. Their four SEC road victories have come by an average of 21.6 points.
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UF last won five SEC road games in a row when it went unbeaten during the 2014 conference season during a school-record 30-game win streak that ended in the Final Four under Hall-of-Fame coach Billy Donovan.
A fifth straight Wednesday would be a big step – though hardly the last one – in the quest for the program's first league title since that remarkable '14 team led by the senior quartet of Scottie Wilbekin, Patric Young, Casey Prather and Will Yeguete.
"Really good teams have to [win on the road] and if we want a chance to win this league we have to get a couple more of them," said UF coach Todd Golden, whose '25 NCAA championship squad went 6-3 on the SEC road, with one three-game win streak. "I think that's one of the biggest compliments we can pay our group; regardless of home or road, they seem to be pretty consistent with their efforts."
Then came a disclaimer.
"As good as we feel now, if we don't perform Wednesday it's going to be exactly the opposite," Golden added.
The Missouri game, of course, is the closest reference, but every returning player on the team – and soul in Gator Nation – recalls what happened the last time UF ventured into Stegeman. A stampede happened, that's what, as the UGA fans stormed the floor after the Bulldogs upset the nation's third-ranked team 88-83 (despite blowing a 26-point first-half lead) to mark Georgia's biggest win in more than two decades.
Florida, of course, did not lose another game, rolling to 12 straight victories; three to end the regular season, three to win the SEC Tournament and six to win the NCAA Tournament to capture the program's third national championship.
"That's going to be in the back of [our] mind when we go in there," said UF junior wing and leading scorer Thomas Haugh, a top contender for SEC Player of the Year. "This year we've made a point of playing well on the road. We were able to put together that good performance [at Texas A&M] and we'll try to do the same thing at Georgia."
CHARTING THE GATORS Longest SEC road winning streaks in UF history
A win Wednesday night over Georgia would give UF its longest road conference winning streak of the last 12 seasons.
Longest
Started
The wins
Ended
Season result
10
Jan. 11, 2014
Ark 84-82 (2OT)
Aub 68-61
Ala 68-62
Miss St 62-51
Tenn 67-58
Ken 69-59
OMiss 75-71
Vandy 57-54,
SC 72-46
Jan. 17, 2015
Georgia 73-61
Streak spans two seasons; the unbeaten run to the 2014 SEC title and thru the first road game of the '15 season (Billy D's last at UF)
6
March 5, 2006
Ken 79-64
SC 84-50
Miss St 70-67
Aub 91-66
Ga 71-61
Ken 64-61
Feb. 17, 2007
Vandy 83-70
Also spans two seasons, as well as two NCAA title-winning seasons (court storm at Memorial, of course)
4
Jan. 13, 2026
OU 96-79
Vandy 98-94
SC 95-48
A&M 86-67
Current
To be determined
Jan. 25, 2017
LSU 106-71
(*OU 84-52)
Ga 72-60
Aub 114-95
Miss St 57-52
Feb. 18, 2017
Ken 76-66
Gators, en route to the Elite Eight, finished second in the SEC at 14-4, still their league finish since '14.
Jan. 12, 2013
LSU 74-52
A&M 68-47
Ga 64-47
Miss St 82-47
Jan. 26, 2013
Ark 80-69
Eventual SEC champions lost to Michigan in the Elite Eight.
Jan. 25, 1989
Vandy 81-78 (OT)
Ken 59-53
Miss St 78-69
LSU 104-95
March 4, 1989
Ala 83-63
Started with the famed Dwayne Schintzius tennis ball game and lasted through LSU win that clinched first SEC title in program history.
Feb. 27, 1965
Ga 83-74
(*FSU 74-65)
Ga 65-62,
Aub 68-64
OMiss 96-61
Jan. 31, 1966
Miss St 76-68
Spanned two seasons of first Norm Sloan era when Gators won 18 and 16 games, respectively.
Dec. 18, 1940
OMiss 35-26
Miss St 53-28
Ga 39-34
Ga 44-42
Feb. 10
Ga 46-40
Played Bulldogs three times on the road (and faced only three other SEC teams total) in build-up to World War II.
* 2017 win at Oklahoma was in the Big 12/SEC Challenge and, when included, marks the Gators' longest overall road win streak since the 2014 season. * 1966 win at Florida State part of one of UF's rare five-game overall road streaks.
