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The Florida Gators now know their foes for 2020 — again.
Probably.
Florida, the 13 other SEC member institutions, and the general public learned of the SEC’s revised schedule for the 2020 season — a 11-week, 10-game gauntlet whose start was pushed back to late September and whose games are now set to feature only intra-conference matchups — via the SEC Network’s SEC Now broadcast at 7 p.m. Eastern.
The Gators previously knew that they were set to open with a trip to Ole Miss — possibly their first since 2007 — thanks to the SEC choosing to release that news via The Paul Finebaum Show on Monday afternoon.
But while that lone September game could be a lopsided affair — the Rebels will be playing their first game under new head coach Lane Kiffin — the Gators’ October is set to be a much tougher stretch. Florida is slated to host South Carolina in Week 2, travel to Texas A&M in Week 3, and host LSU in Week 4 and Missouri in Week 5. For the Gators, that would means playing three of their four SEC West opponents and both of their before Halloween — which Florida is set to spend on a bye, rather than in Jacksonville for a game against Georgia, for the first time in decades.
The Gators and Dawgs are set to meet up in Duval County just a week later, though, with their annual clash set to be the SEC’s lone neutral-site game on November 7.
And the rest of Florida’s finish matches the Gators against familiar faces: First, in a Week 8 game at home against Arkansas, former Florida quarterback Feleipe Franks, and then a trio of SEC East foes — Vanderbilt in Nashville on November 21, Kentucky in Gainesville on November 28, and Tennessee in Knoxville on December 5, in what would be the teams’ third-ever December meeting and first-ever December meeting in Knoxville.
Florida Gators 2020 Football Schedule (Revised)
Week | Date | Team | Location |
---|---|---|---|
Week | Date | Team | Location |
1 | September 26 | Ole Miss | Oxford, MS |
2 | October 3 | South Carolina | Gainesville, FL |
3 | October 10 | Texas A&M | College Station, TX |
4 | October 17 | LSU | Gainesville, FL |
5 | October 24 | Missouri | Gainesville, FL |
6 | October 31 | Bye | None |
7 | November 7 | Georgia | Jacksonville, FL |
8 | November 14 | Arkansas | Gainesville, FL |
9 | November 21 | Vanderbilt | Nashville, TN |
10 | November 28 | Kentucky | Gainesville, FL |
11 | December 5 | Tennessee | Knoxville, TN |
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— Southeastern Conference (@SEC) August 17, 2020
Here it is: the 2020 #SECFB Schedule ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/BTyrFLiaWC
— Southeastern Conference (@SEC) August 17, 2020
For those who prefer the helmet version of the composite schedule: pic.twitter.com/v9H3YlbQ6P
— Chuck Dunlap (@SEC_Chuck) August 17, 2020