The Florida Gators come into the 2020 college football season ranked No. 8 in the Coaches Poll. This is the highest-ranking the Gators have entered a season since 2009.
As the entire college football world eagerly waits in anticipation for the start of college football the Gators will kick off the year in the top 10. Florida is the highest-ranked team in the state with Florida State and Miami not finding their way in the top-25, while UCF comes in ranked No. 21. The Gators ended the 2019 season ranked 7th in the country.
Florida is coming off of a second-consecutive double-digit win season and has won a New Year’s Six Bowl game in each of Dan Mullen’s first two seasons.
The Gators season is scheduled to kick off on September 26. The Southeastern Conference has announced a 10-game, conference only schedule but have not released the new dates for those games. That announcement is expected to come before fall camp begins on August 14.
The Coaches Poll is conducted each week of the regular season using a panel of head coaches at FBS schools. The panel is chosen by random draw and includes all majors conference plus independents from a pool of coaches willing to participate.
The entire Top-25 is below.
1. Clemson
2. Ohio State
3. Alabama
4. Georgia
5. LSU
6. Oklahoma
7. Penn State
8. Florida
9. Oregon
10. Notre Dame
11. Auburn
12. Wisconsin
13. Texas A&M
14. Texas
15. Michigan
16. Oklahoma State
17. USC
18. Minnesota
19. North Carolina
20. Utah
21. UCF
22. Cincinnati
23. Iowa
24. Virginia Tech
25. Iowa State