The Florida Gators are set to open the 2019 season on Saturday against the Miami Hurricanes. The two teams will kickoff at 7:00 p.m. ET from Orlando's Camping World Stadium. The contest will be televised live on ESPN with Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbsstreit, and Maria Taylor on the broadcast.

Below are the game notes for the game provided by the University of Florida.

• Florida and Miami renew their rivalry with the first meeting between the two programs since 2013. This is just the seventh meeting in the series since the turn of the century.

• It is also just the third meeting since the start of the 2005 season. Florida won a 2008 matchup, 26-3, in Gainesville. Miami won the most recent meeting (the 2013 game), 21-16, in Miami Gardens.

• The Gators enter this year seeking a second consecutive 10-win campaign for the first time since posting 13 wins in both 2008 -- head coach Dan Mullen’s final year as offensive coordinator -- and 2009.

• Florida was picked to finish second in the SEC East in the preseason predictions from SEC Media Days. The Gators’ preseason All-SEC selections were: defensive back CJ Henderson (1st Team), defensive lineman Jabari Zuniga (1st Team), running back Lamical Perine (2nd Team), linebacker David Reese II (2nd Team), all-purpose standout Kadarius Toney (2nd Team), punter Tommy Townsend (2nd Team), and kicker Evan McPherson (3rd Team).

• Florida won each of its last three games in 2018 by 26-plus points. The last time it won three consecutive games by at least 25 points was an eight-game stretch from Oct. 4-Nov. 29, 2008.

• The Gators also scored 40-plus points in each of those final three games, marking the first time they scored 40-plus points in three consecutive games since a seven-game stretch from Oct. 11-Nov. 29, 2008.

• UF totaled 400-plus yards in all of its last four games, marking the first time since Nov. 8-29, 2008 it had such a streak.

• Florida rose 86 spots in the national rankings for scoring offense from 2017 to 2018, the second-largest jump of any FBS team. The Gators were tied for 108th (22.1 points per game) in 2017, but finished 22nd (35.0) last year.

• The Gators finished last season ranked No. 6 in the final Coaches Poll and No. 7 in the final Associated Press Top 25 Poll. It was Florida’s highest finish in either major poll since ending the 2009 season ranked No. 3 in both.

• Prior to last season, Florida had not finished in the top 10 of either major poll since 2012 (No. 9 AP / No. 10 Coaches).

• Only three teams in the final 2018 AP Poll won less than six games in 2017: Florida, No. 15 Syracuse, No. 24 Cincinnati.

• Florida, Cincinnati (11-2), Utah State (11-2), Georgia Southern (10-3), and Syracuse (10-3) were the only FBS teams to win 10-plus games last year after they finished below .500 in 2017.

• The restoration of Feleipe Franks’ confidence was at the center of Florida’s offensive awakening in Mullen’s debut season. As Mullen noted above, Franks’ willingness to create plays running the ball as opposed to strictly throwing from the pocket made both he and Florida’s offense much harder to stop.

• Franks’ 2018 season as a whole was, statistically, the best by a Gators quarterback in nearly a decade. His 31 touchdowns accounted for (24 passing, 7 rushing) ranked tied for 19th nationally.

• Franks ranks tied for ninth nationally among returning FBS quarterbacks in touchdowns responsible for.

• Franks also finished tied for 17th nationally in touchdown-interception ratio (4.00 / 24 TDs to 6 INTs), just one year removed from tying for 107th among qualifying FBS players in 2017.

• Only eight returning FBS quarterbacks had a better touchdown-interception ratio than Franks last year.

• Since the start of 1996, Tebow (7.50 - 2008; 5.33 - 2007; 4.20 - 2009) was the only Gator with a better touchdown-interception ratio than Franks’ 4.00 (24 to 6) in 2018. The next-closest ratio during that span was Chris Leak’s 3.33 (20 to 6) in 2005.

• Franks was one of 12 FBS quarterbacks to throw more than 20 touchdowns and fewer than seven interceptions last season, a group that included stars such as Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa, Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence, Georgia’s Jake Fromm, and UCF’s McKenzie Milton.

• Franks’ 24 touchdown passes last season -- the most since Tim Tebow’s 30 in 2008 -- ranked tied for 32nd nationally, while his 2,457 passing yards were UF’s highest total since Tebow’s 2,895 yards in 2009.

• Although the Gators lost six offensive starters, they return a significant amount of rushing and receiving production, including last year’s leading rusher, Lamical Perine, and leading receiver, Van Jefferson.

• On the ground, Florida returns 1,979 of its 2,771 rushing yards (71.4 percent), as well as 18 of its 23 rushing touchdowns (78.3 percent). Perine heads the group with 826 yards and seven touchdowns from 2018.

• In the receiving corps, Florida’s top seven pass catchers (by receptions) are back. The Gators return 187 of their 217 receptions (86.1 percent), as well as 2,436 of their 2,776 receiving yards (87.8 percent), and 24 of their 28 receiving touchdowns (85.7 percent) from last season’s team.

• Jefferson led Florida in all receiving categories with 35 receptions for 503 yards and six touchdowns. His six touchdown receptions tied Solomon Patton (2013) for the third-highest season total by a Gator since 2009. Riley Cooper (9 in 2009) and Demarcus Robinson (7 in 2014) are the only others in that span with six.

• Eleven different Gators caught a touchdown last year -- the first time since 2009 that happened. Nine return.