Florida FBS teams post second winless Saturday ever

Florida has had far from the best year in the college football landscape in 2024. Expectations for Florida State were sky high after an impressive performance by the Seminoles in 2023, but they have not been able to build on that yet.

There was also some excitement surrounding the Gators after head coach Billy Napier signed a top-15 recruiting class that included star quarterback and former Gatorade Player of the Year DJ Lagway. Both teams have been (extremely) underwhelmed in 2024, when the state posted its second-ever winless Saturday in Week 11.

And this time that even included Miami.

While the Gators fell unceremoniously 49-17 to the Texas Longhorns and the Seminoles were defeated 52-3 by the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the Hurricanes were stunned with a 28-23 loss to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets on the road . But that’s just the tip of the iceberg on how bad the weekend was for the Sunshine State in terms of college football.

As noted by Tim Reynolds of The Associated Press, Florida’s seven FBS programs (Miami, Florida, Florida State, UCF, South Florida, Florida Atlantic and Florida International) all went 0-5 combined on the exact same Saturday.

Now that Miami has the opportunity to serve as redemption with what still appears to be a favorable College Football Playoff berth, it will be interesting to see how these teams bounce back the next time they take the field.