Saturday was not a good day for Jon Sumrall and his Florida team. He was never going to go undefeated, so he was bound to lose at some point, but Saturday was a brutal of a loss as one could conjure up.
We noted last night that Steve Spurrier and Urban Meyer both had massive losses in their respective debut seasons, but we thought we would take a look at the first loss each of the seven non-interim coaches for Florida suffered since 1990 and see if a first loss can lead to any clues about the future of the program.
The first loss for each Florida coach since 1990
The Man in the Black Polo – Sept. 10, 2022 vs. Kentucky (26-16)
There are a ton of parallels between what went down yesterday and what took place in The Swamp in 2022. We all remember the feeling of Florida being “back” after knocking off Utah the week before, and we all were dreaming of a new era in Gainesville…