Florida has won 771 games with a .625 winning percentage, a figure that sits well below the other SEC programs with three or more national championships and is explained by the calendar. The Gators were a losing program for most of their first half century, a middling one for the next thirty years, and one of the best in the country for the twenty one seasons of Steve Spurrier and Urban Meyer. The fifteen seasons since have produced four losing records in the last five, including the 4 and 8 of 2025 that cost Billy Napier his job.
| Record through 2025 | 771, 454, 40 |
| Winning percentage | .625 |
| First season | 1906 |
| National championships | Three: 1996, 2006, 2008 |
| SEC championships | Eight, plus 1984 vacated |
| Bowl record | 25 wins, 24 losses in 49 sanctioned games; 2 and 0 in championship games |
| 2025 season | 4 and 8, 2 and 6 in the SEC |
Three Eras
| Era | Coaches | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| 1906 to 1989 | Twenty coaches, Graves and Dickey the longest tenured | No official conference title in 57 SEC seasons; one Heisman; a Sugar Bowl and an Orange Bowl win |
| 1990 to 2010 | Spurrier, Zook, Meyer | 210 wins in 21 seasons, three national titles, eight SEC titles, two Heismans |
| 2011 to 2025 | Muschamp, McElwain, Mullen, Napier | 110 and 79 with interims, no titles, six losing seasons |
Spurrier’s 122, 27 and 1 and Meyer’s 65 and 15 are the reason the program’s trophy case looks the way it does. Combined they went 187, 42 and 1 in eighteen seasons, a .816 percentage, and everyone else in Florida’s history has won at about 56 percent. Our head coaches page has every coach with records.
Why the Percentage Is Low
Florida did not have a winning decade until the 1950s and did not win an official SEC title until its 59th year in the league. Between 1936 and 1949 the program had two winning seasons. Charley Pell’s 1979 team went 0, 10 and 1. Those years are in the denominator, and they are why a school with three national championships since 1996 has an all time percentage closer to Kentucky’s than to Georgia’s.
The 2025 Collapse
Florida entered 2025 with the best of its 2024 roster back and expectations of a playoff run after a four game winning streak to close the previous year. It lost at home to South Florida in the second week as an 18 point favourite, lost to LSU and Miami, and was 3 and 4 when Billy Napier was fired on October 19 after a 23 to 21 win over Mississippi State. Billy Gonzales went 1 and 4 as interim, the win coming against Florida State in the finale, and the 4 and 8 record matched the 2013 team for the program’s worst since 1979. Napier’s 22 and 23 made him the first permanent Florida coach to leave with a losing record since 1949.
The Home Field
The 2025 team still drew 90,125 a game to Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, tenth in the country. Florida’s home record in the Spurrier and Meyer years was one of the best in the sport, and the gap between the program’s home and overall records is, as at LSU and Tennessee, a measure of how much the building has done. Our Ben Hill Griffin Stadium page covers it.
2026
Jon Sumrall’s first team opens against Florida Atlantic on September 5 with Aaron Philo at quarterback and Auburn, Ole Miss and Missouri inside the first six weeks. Florida is unranked in the preseason poll, with 51 votes, the second most of any team outside the top 25. Our 2026 schedule page has the full slate.
The Bottom Line
Florida is 771 wins, 454 losses and 40 ties all time, a .625 winning percentage that reflects eighty years of ordinary football before Steve Spurrier and fifteen years of drift after Urban Meyer, with the three national championships and eight SEC titles packed into the twenty one seasons between. The 2025 team went 4 and 8, Billy Napier was fired in October, and Jon Sumrall begins in September. Our winningest programs page has the national top 20.