Florida is among those in the SEC who could possibly win with luck and help

Last week, we here at Hail Florida Hail highlighted four teams in the SEC that have zero shot at winning the SEC in 2025. As negative as we may be sometimes regarding Florida Football, we did not put the Gators in that tier of teams.

However, it is not unfair to state that Florida isn't a favorite to win the SEC either. Instead, the Gators fall into a middle grouping of teams who could win in 2025 with some luck and a little bit of help.

Florida Gators Could Win The SEC If Things Break Correctly

We put Mississippi State, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, and Arkansas as the four teams that have zero shot of winning the SEC in 2025.

One could argue Aurburn and Oklahoma should have belonged in that category, but both of those teams loaded up in the transfer portal, so we are going to include them in the same category we have the Gators in:

Teams in the SEC that could win with some luck and some help.

Within this group, we are also going to include Tennessee, Missouri, Texas A&M, and South Carolina.

For Florida specifically, their pathway to Atlanta runs through DJ Lagway. That's not a shocker to anyone who has heard anything about college football.

But even if Lagway is Superman, there are other lingering questions this team has to answer before we book a ticket to Atlanta.

On offense, the ceiling for the wide receiver room is sky high, but as we have chronicled on the site, a lot of people are also glossing over how low the floor could be for this unit.

Then you add in, even if the wide receivers do meet their ceiling, is Billy Napier going to run an offense this year that utilizes them, or is he going to stick to his predictable play calling that requires Lagway to in fact be Superman to work?

Then, on defense, Florida has to answer whether their defensive tackles and safeties are SEC-ready this year. Florida lost a ton in the trenches from 2024 and didn't exactly run out with a full head of steam to replace them.

And even with all that, if Florida has Missouri's SEC schedule, we might still be tempted to put Florida in the "outside favorites" category. But instead, they have the same brutal slate they had last year, and that is why Florida is going to need a little bit of luck and some help if they are to win the SEC in 2025.