There’s something traditional about Florida’s new non-traditional football schedule in Florida.
The Gators and Georgia Bulldogs will meet at about the same time and place as they always do – late in the season, coming off an open date, along the St. Johns River in Jacksonville.
In the new schedule-only conference, which was released Monday night, the Gators and Bulldogs will play their pivotal SEC East showdown on November 7, a week later than on the original schedule. But otherwise it offers something normal to the scheme.
Otherwise, it’s kind of an upturn in a season turned around by COVID-19.
The Gators will open on the road at Ole Miss on Sept. 26 and will close out the 10-game regular season against Rivals of the East that they normally do in the opening games of the season – Kentucky and Tennessee.
UF, which was scheduled to play the Wildcats in The Swamp on Sept. 12 at the SEC opener, now gets Kentucky home on Nov. 28.
A week later, the Gators travel to Knoxville to defeat the Vols in what could be a cold (or cold) day at Rocky Top. UF and UT were originally scheduled to meet on Sept. 26.
Former UF quarterback Feleipe Franks will make his return to The Swamp with the Arkansas Razorbacks on Nov. 14. Arkansas is one of two West teams added to the UF schedule two weeks ago. The other is Texas A&M, a team that will take the Gators to the road on October 10th.
The matchup for marquee in The Swamp will come on October 17 against LSU. That game was originally scheduled a week earlier.
South Carolina and Missouri, who normally fall on the Gators schedule late in the season, will make their way to Gainesville in October.
The Gators travel to Vanderbilt on November 21st.
Florida’s 2020 Schedule
Week 1 (Sept. 26) – by Ole Miss (Oxford, Miss.)
Week 2 (Oct. 3) – South Carolina (Gainesville)
Week 3 (Oct. 10) – by Texas A&M (College Station, Texas)
Week 4 (Oct. 17) – LSU (Gainesville)
Week 5 (October 24) – Missouri (Gainesville)
Week 6 (October 31) – OPEN
Week 7 (Nov. 7) – Vs. Georgia (Jacksonville)
Week 8 (Nov. 14) – Arkansas (Gainesville)
Week 9 (Nov. 21) – by Vanderbilt (Nashville, Tenn.)
Week 10 (Nov. 28) – Kentucky (Gainesville)
Week 11 (Dec. 5) – in Tennessee (Knoxville, Tenn.)
SEC Championship Game (Atlanta, Ga.) – Dec. 19
