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The school's sports teams are called the Florida Gators and compete in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference of the NCAA's Division I. In football, Florida, as well as all other SEC schools, competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; still often referred to by its former designation of Division I-A). The Gators have a number of rivalries, most notably the in-state Florida State University, and the conference competitors University of Georgia and University of Tennessee. Florida dedicates about $44 million per year to its sports teams and facilities. In 2004-05, Florida won its 14th consecutive SEC All-Sports Trophy. The Florida athletic program has ranked among the nation's top ten in each of the last 23 years and in the top five for 12 of the past 17. Florida is one of only two schools that has ranked among the top 10 athletic programs for the last 23 years.
Florida is the first Division I FBS school to win multiple uncontested national championships in each of the two most popular NCAA sports: football (in 1996, 2006, and 2008) and men's basketball (in 2006, and again in 2007). With a 41-14 win over #1 Ohio State in the 2006 BCS National Championship, held January 8, 2007, in Glendale, Arizona, Florida became the only Division I school in NCAA history to hold football and basketball titles at the same time. Florida was 12-1 in the regular season, and won the SEC Championship on the road to the 2007 BCS Championship Game. In a remarkable feat of college football, the 2008 Florida Gators won their second NCAA College Football BCS Championship in the last three years by defeating the Oklahoma Sooners in the 2009 BCS Championship Game in Miami, Florida.
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