Florida Gators complete 2024 football schedule
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Gators have their 2024 football schedule.
With the addition of the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns, the SEC chose to have an eight-game schedule. All of the other 14 SEC schools will play one of the two new SEC teams. On Wednesday, the South Eastern Conference released the eight opponents for all 16 teams.
Despite the conference slate not going to nine games, the Gators will not lose any of their traditional rivals in 2024. Florida will have dates with Georgia, Tennessee, and LSU. The Gators are also scheduled to play the Miami Hurricanes in 2024 and 2025.
“Florida and Miami playing periodically is good for college football in general, but especially in the state of Florida,” UF Athletic Director Scott Stricklin said when the game was announced. “It is a great rivalry with two storied programs and in line with our current philosophy of trying to schedule a minimum of 10 Power Five opponents annually.”
The Gators will have three non-conference Power 5 opponents in 2024. Florida will host Miami and UCF before ending the season against the Florida State Seminoles. It will be a challenging schedule but one that should be easy to sell tickets to with marquee games at home all season.
Snapshot
- The Florida Gators will have seven home games
- The Gators will only leave the state of Florida three times (Mississippi State, Tennessee, Texas)
- The Gators will travel to Austin, Texas to play the Longhorns on November 9. It will be Florida’s first trip to Austin since Sep. 30, 1939.
- Florida is 0-2-1 against Texas all-time.
- The Gators and Hurricanes will play for the 57th time.
- It will be Miami’s first trip to Gainesville since 2008.
- Miami leads the all-time series 29-27 and lost the last matchup in 2019.
- The new SEC schedule means the Gators will not face former SEC East foe Missouri. The Gators and Tigers have played every year since Missouri joined the SEC in 2012.
- Despite being in different divisions, the Gators and Texas A&M Aggies are becoming familiar opponents. 2024 will be the fifth time the two gave played since 2012.
Florida Gators complete 2024 schedule
| Date | Opponent | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Aug. 31 | Miami | Gainesville, Florida |
| Sep. 7 | Samford | Gainesville, Florida |
| Sep. 14 | Texas A&M | Gainesville, Florida |
| Sep. 21 | Mississippi State | Starkville, Mississippi |
| Sep. 28 | OPEN DATE | |
| Oct. 7 | UCF | Gainesville, Florida |
| Oct. 12 | Tennessee | Knoxville, Tennessee |
| Oct. 19 | Kentucky | Gainesville, Florida |
| Oct. 26 | OPEN DATE | |
| Nov. 2 | Georgia | Jacksonville, Florida |
| Nov. 9 | Texas | Austin, Texas |
| Nov. 16 | LSU | Gainesville, Florida |
| Nov. 23 | Ole Miss | Gainesville, Florida |
| Nov. 30 | Florida State | Tallahassee, Florida |
