By: Nick Marcinko -- May 14, 2025 The Florida Gators won their final four games of the 2025 season to finish with an 8-5 record, the best in three years under head coach Billy Napier. Florida will look to ride that momentum into the 2025 season, where the expectations are a playoff berth amongst most of Gator Nation. According to Fox Sports, Florida has the 15th best odds to win the National Championship in 2025 at +4500. The Gators hold way too early preseason rankings of No.9 (Josh Pate), No.10 (CBS Sports), No.11 (USA Today), and No.19 (ESPN). Pretty much wherever you look, the Gators are considered right on the bubble of a playoff bid. Gator Country provides three reasons Florida will make the playoffs, and three reasons they won’t. Three reasons Florida will make the playoffs in 2025, three reasons they won’t | GatorCountry.com
Agree with the assessment. Lagway hopefully takes the sophomore leap with help from his superb stall of playmakers; we look great in the WR, OL and RB rooms. Everything hinges on staying relatively injury free and the defensive continuing where they left off!
----- Reasons why we make the playoffs ----- 1. Skilled QB with almost one full year starting. 2. We have some of the best killed offensive weapons in the nation. 3. Our O-line will give our QB/offense the time we need to get the wins. ----- Reason why we miss the playoffs ----- 1. We start out slow like last year and lose too many games early on. 2. We suffer too many costly injuries/injury bug. 3. Too many mental errors by the players or the coaching staff... special teams.
Hoping the first two games help UF "Kick the Rust Off" and get ready for that brutal 4 game stretch. The Gators are going to have to ball like never before under Nape, if they want to sniff the playoffs, in that 4 game sequence. As much as I like coach, it's year 4, giving away games ala Arkansas 2 years ago and Tenn last year just won't stand. The team, while still young, does have more experience. They need to be crisp, precise and execute. If the Gators emerge from the first 6 games 5-1, they will be in the playoff conversation. Make it Happen!
Napier can survive losing to Tennessee, but not giving away the game like that. I'm not sure how many games we need to win, but we just cannot continue to shoot our self on the foot.
Thats 8 is a good number but how the team looks matters more to me. We won eight last year but the first half of the season was inexcusable. 9 or 10 would be nice but gauging how our competition is a crap shoot . Lets hope we are better and they are worse.
