GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Florida doesn’t have a quarterback controversy. It’s more like a quarterback coalition.

Backup quarterback Tim Tebow threw two touchdown passes, including one on a play that could have came from basketball coach Billy Donovan’s playbook, and ran for a score to give the fifth-ranked Gators a 23-10 win against No. 9 LSU on Saturday.

“You’ve got to be creative in this league,” Gators coach Urban Meyer said.

Florida improved to 6-0 for the first time since 1996 — the school’s lone national championship season — and extended its home winning streak to 13 games. The Gators (4-0 Southeastern Conference) also beat the Tigers for the first time in three years and won their 18th straight homecoming game.

Tebow made it look relatively easy.

The highly touted freshman, who teams with starter Chris Leak to give Meyer maybe the nation’s best quarterback combo, ran nine times for 35 yards, including a 1-yard plunge on fourth down that evened the score at 7 in the first quarter.

“He’s a rock ’em, sock ’em kind of runner,” LSU coach Les Miles said. “Florida used him to their advantage.”

Said Meyer: “I want the ball in his hands right now. I know he’s going to hang onto it.”

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Leak did the bulk of the work with another steady performance, going 17-of-26 for 155 yards. Tebow grabbed the highlights, unveiling another side of his game.

Although he threw nine passes in mop-up duty against Central Florida, Tebow had rarely used his left arm since — aside from an occasional stiff arm.

That changed against the Tigers (4-2, 1-2).

Facing a second-and-goal play with less than a minute remaining in the first half, Tebow took the snap and ran toward the line of scrimmage. He pulled up — much like a jump-shooter would — double clutched to allow tight end Tate Casey to get open, then kind of flipped the ball over several defenders.

Casey caught it as he fell backward.

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“We’d rather our tight end not fumble around and fall down and do six push-ups and then get up and try to catch it,” Meyer said, adding that the jump-pass was a throwback play to the early 1900s. “He’s supposed to block-release and catch the ball, and he didn’t. He kind of stumbled about. It’s supposed to be much easier than that.”

Casey agreed.

“That’s one of those ones you don’t want to drop,” he said.