Prior to yesterday’s win over Texas, it felt like the sky was falling in Gainesville. After jumping out to a 4-0 start, back-to-back blowout losses made it feel like the Gators were a mirage and that the bottom was about to fall out.
But after beating Texas, in combination with one of the wildest days in recent college football history, the past month of Florida Football might just be the new normal for fans to expect.
Florida’s chaotic month in line with the chaos around the country
Here is just a sampling of results from Saturday:
- Auburn beat Georgia
- Ole Miss destroyed Missouri
- Kentucky beat Oklahoma
- Miami needed 2OTs and the refs to beat FSU
- Tennessee destroyed Alabama
- BYU beat Notre Dame
It begs the question:
Is anyone in college football good in 2026?
Keep in mind, Texas was No. 1 prior to last week because they had defeated Ohio State.
Florida dominated Ole Miss, who dominated Missouri, who dominated Florida.
Kentucky was dominated by Alabama, who dominated Mississippi State, who had beaten Missouri.
That’s just a small microcosm of what is happening in the SEC this season. For what it’s worth, the official SEC standings rank Florida 6th, which is ahead of their preseason projections. Every SEC team has at least one loss, and every team except Vanderbilt has at least one SEC win.
So what if the previous two weeks are just the new reality of college football, where week-to-week consistency is out the window?
It’s not to say there can’t be expectations week-to-week, and the way the college football landscape is set up right now, Florida’s loss to South Carolina feels like a huge lead weight on what could otherwise be a top-ten team in the current rankings. But seemingly everyone in the SEC has a South Carolina-style loss, and there is probably no one happy in the SEC right now.
We’ll just state this from an overall macro perspective, seven games into Jon Sumrall’s inaugural season:
If one had told fans prior to the year that Florida would be 5-2 heading into the bye, most fans would have taken it. We said prior to the season that the acceptable floor for Sumrall in year one was 8-4, and we had predicted 9-3 overall.
With the win over Texas, those projections are still in play.
We’ll have plenty of time to dissect what needs to get better to reach those goals, but for now it’s okay to take a deep breath and remember if the sky is falling, it’s falling for everyone.
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