Florida’s football history divides cleanly at 1990. Before Steve Spurrier arrived the program had never won an SEC title it was allowed to keep. In the twenty one seasons of Spurrier and Urban Meyer it won eight conference championships and three national titles. In the fifteen seasons since Meyer, four permanent coaches have won none of either, and the last of them, Billy Napier, was fired seven games into his fourth year. Jon Sumrall begins his first season on Saturday.
The Modern Era
| Coach | Seasons | Record | Titles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jon Sumrall | 2026 to present | First season | None yet |
| Billy Gonzales | 2025 | 1, 4 | Interim; beat Florida State to close the season |
| Billy Napier | 2022 to 2025 | 22, 23 | None; fired October 19, 2025 |
| Dan Mullen | 2018 to 2021 | 34, 15 | None; 2020 SEC title game |
| Jim McElwain | 2015 to 2017 | 22, 12 | None; two SEC title games |
| Will Muschamp | 2011 to 2014 | 28, 21 | None |
| Urban Meyer | 2005 to 2010 | 65, 15 | National 2006, 2008; SEC 2006, 2008 |
| Ron Zook | 2002 to 2004 | 23, 14 | None |
| Steve Spurrier | 1990 to 2001 | 122, 27, 1 | National 1996; SEC 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000 |
| Galen Hall | 1984 to 1989 | 40, 18, 1 | 1984 and 1985 SEC titles vacated or withheld |
| Charley Pell | 1979 to 1984 | 33, 26, 3 | None; resigned amid NCAA investigation |
| Doug Dickey | 1970 to 1978 | 58, 43, 2 | None |
| Ray Graves | 1960 to 1969 | 70, 31, 4 | None; coached Spurrier’s Heisman season |
| Bob Woodruff | 1950 to 1959 | 53, 42, 6 | None; first bowl appearance, 1952 |
Interims omitted from the table: Gary Darnell 1989 (3, 4), Charlie Strong 2004 bowl (0, 1), D.J. Durkin 2014 bowl (1, 0), Randy Shannon 2017 (1, 3), Greg Knox 2021 (1, 1). Before 1950 the program had a dozen coaches; the best were G.E. Pyle from 1909 to 1913 at 26, 7 and 3 and Charlie Bachman from 1928 to 1932. Red rows are permanent coaches who left with losing records.
Steve Spurrier, 1990 to 2001
Spurrier had won the Heisman as a Florida quarterback in 1966 and returned as head coach in 1990 to a program on probation that had never officially won the SEC. His teams won the conference in his second season, won it six times in ten years, and won the 1996 national championship with Danny Wuerffel throwing to Ike Hilliard and Reidel Anthony in the Fun ‘n’ Gun. His 122 wins in twelve seasons are the most in program history and his .817 winning percentage the best of any coach with more than a season. He named the stadium The Swamp, went 11 and 1 against Georgia, and left for the Washington Redskins in January 2002. Our national championships page covers 1996.
Urban Meyer, 2005 to 2010
Meyer won two national championships in his first four seasons, 2006 with Chris Leak and Tim Tebow splitting the quarterback duties and 2008 with Tebow alone, and his 65 and 15 record includes a 13 and 1 season in 2009 that ended with a loss to Alabama in the SEC championship game. He resigned in December 2009 for health reasons, returned within a day, coached a 8 and 5 season in 2010 and resigned again. Two titles, two SEC championships and a Heisman winner in six years is the best short tenure the program has had.
The Fifteen Years Since
Will Muschamp went 11 and 2 in 2012 and 4 and 8 the next year. Jim McElwain won two SEC East titles and lost both championship games by a combined 65 points. Dan Mullen won 29 games in his first three seasons and lost his job during a 6 and 7 fourth year. Billy Napier, hired from Louisiana in late 2021 on a seven year contract, went 22 and 23 and was fired on October 19, 2025 with a buyout above $20 million, the first permanent Florida coach to leave with a losing record since Raymond Wolf in 1949. The four went 106 and 71 combined, with no conference title.
Jon Sumrall
Sumrall was hired in December 2025 from Tulane, where he had reached two American Conference championship games in two seasons, after Florida’s first choice, Lane Kiffin, took the LSU job. He inherits a 4 and 8 team that returns its best players, named Aaron Philo the starting quarterback over Tramell Jones Jr. in August, and opens at home against Florida Atlantic on September 5 with Auburn, Ole Miss and Missouri in the four weeks after. Our 2026 schedule page has the full slate.
The Bottom Line
Florida has had more than two dozen permanent head coaches, and two of them, Steve Spurrier and Urban Meyer, account for all three national championships and all eight SEC titles. Spurrier won the most games with 122. The four coaches since Meyer went a combined 106 and 71 without a conference championship, and Billy Napier was fired mid season in 2025. Jon Sumrall begins in September. Our most wins by a coach page has where Spurrier ranks nationally.