Florida football has regressed significantly so far this fall, having started the season with just one win in three tries, including its first-ever loss to the USF Bulls — in Gainesville, no less — which has resurrected major questions surrounding skipper Billy Napier as well as the program as a whole.
Napier escaped the head coach hot seat last season thanks to a sparkling debut effort from true freshman quarterback DJ Lagway, as well as overall improvement in team cohesion during the second half. Following an offseason in which Lagway spent a significant amount of time recovering from multiple physical ailments, along with the return of poor play-calling, excessive penalties, and boneheaded actions, Orange and Blue has mostly been its own worst enemy in 2025.
Whether it is the loogie that ostensibly lost the USF game, or associate head coach and running backs coach Jabbar Juluke’s recent three-game suspension — among a laundry list of times — Florida appears to be snakebitten once again.
That is why the Gators earned a spot on ESPN senior writer Ryan McGee’s college football bottom 10 following Week 3, coming in at No. 10.
“(H)ave y’all peeped Florida’s schedule? It’s the scariest thing I’ve seen since that time my family visited a Florida truck stop and my daughter bought what she thought was a souvenir rubber alligator, but then a few miles down the road it bit the dog,” McGee summarizes.
Not entirely sure how someone could confuse a real baby alligator with a rubber one, but I digress…
Florida football’s remaining 2025 schedule
In case you have not seen the remainder of the Gators’ 2025 slate:
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This article originally appeared on Gators Wire: Florida football cracks ESPN’s ‘bottom 10’ after Week 3 loss at LSU Tigers
Reporting by Adam Dubbin, Gators Wire / Gators Wire
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