The Florida Gators were 7-5 during the 2024 college football season and the Gators are hoping for a chance at national prominence in 2025. Florida could be one of the surprise teams in the SEC Conference during the 2025 season.
The Gators will have to produce wins because head coach Billy Napier is on the hot seat. If Florida finishes with a record worse than 7-5, there is a very good chance that they will be looking for a new head coach in 2026. However, Gators fans are dreaming of a memorable 2025 college football season with quarterback DJ Lagway taking his game to another level. The Texas Longhorns and the Georgia Bulldogs could be Florida’s biggest competition, but things could be favorable for them other than that.
CBS Sports Thinks the Florida Gators Could Finish With a 10-2 Record and Get Themselves Into the College Football Playoffs
Florida’s worst-case scenario in 2025 would be for them to finish with a 6-6 record and have another year of them outside the playoff picture. Well, Brad Crawford of CBS Sports thinks there is a world where Florida finishes with a 10-2 record during the 2025 college football season. If that’s the case, the Gators will most likely be in the postseason. Crawford said,
“A year after staying above water through arguably the toughest schedule in college football history, Florida faces a similar challenge in 2025 — though maybe to as daunting when you have DJ Lagway at quarterback. Ten wins against this slate would mean a near-automatic playoff berth as an at-large selection.”
The biggest game for Florida in 2025 will be in Week 3 on September 13 when they go on the road and face the LSU Tigers. LSU will be favored against the Gators most likely, but if Florida can steal that game on the road, they will already have the tiebreaker over them. This could potentially put Tigers head coach Brian Kelly on the hot seat and Gators head coach Billy Napier into the driver’s seat.
There is a world where they could be 4-0 when hosting the Texas Longhorns on October 4. Florida will have other difficult games on the schedule against the Ole Miss Rebels on the road and the Tennessee Volunteers at home. Florida’s realistic season may be 8-4 rather than 9-3 or 10-2. Going 10-2 may feel like a massive stretch for this Gators program.
If they go 10-2, it means that Lagway took his next step as a quarterback, and they will be in the playoffs with the brutal schedule they faced. If Florida missed the postseason, Napier won’t necessarily be fired as long as they show progress from its 7-5 record from the 2024 season. If Napier and Lagway and the rest of the squad goes backwards, then there will be changes for the 2026 college football season for this Gators football program also.
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