With UF’s season opener against UMass fast approaching, alligatorSports football writers Ethan Bauer, Ian Cohen, Jordan McPherson and Patrick Pinak take their best shots at predicting how the 25th-ranked Gators will fare this year.
BAUER: 9-3 (6-2 SEC)
Florida’s 2016 season hinges on a Sept. 24 date with Tennessee in Knoxville. If the Gators can knock off the Volunteers, they should be favorites to win the SEC East.
But if they don’t, 2016 will be remembered — or forgotten — as a down season for Florida football.
Putting my Tennessee prediction aside for now, I don’t see the Gators beating LSU, even in The Swamp.