🏈 Florida coach Will Muschamp 'embraces' challenge of traveling to Alabama in 2014 (report)

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Complain about his 2014 match-up with his former mentor in hostile territory? Not a chance.

According to a Palm Beach Post report, Florida coach Will Muschamp said his team will "embrace" the challenge when it travels to Bryant-Denny Stadium on Sept. 20, 2014, to face Alabama.

"At the University of Florida we embrace whoever we play and whatever happens," Muschamp told reporters in Gainesville. "We’ve been asked to play a cross-division opponent with LSU. We don’t gripe and complain about it, we embrace it. We embrace things at Florida. Whatever our league asks us to do, we’ll certainly do that and look forward to it.

Counting the 2008 and 2009 SEC Championships, Florida and Alabama have met four times in the past five years. The teams have faced each other five times in the regular season since 2005.

Had the criteria been "Who has gone the longest without facing each other during the regular season," South Carolina and Georgia would have been the opponents of choice. Of course, with conference expansion and the uncertainty about future schedules, those sort of factors were merely considered, not applied as hard and fast rules.

"At the end of the day, no one wants to say it, but it comes down to matchups," Muschamp said. "People want to see Florida and Alabama play. I know that’s not the company line, but that’s the bottom line. We look forward to it."

Click here to read the rest of the Palm Beach Post's report.