The college football season is underway after a handful of games were played during Week 0 of the 2023 campaign. While a few schools got an early start to the schedule, Florida football is getting set for a rematch of their season-opener in the Swamp last fall.
The Gators enter the season on the heels of a pair of sub-.500 finishes that stretch between the Dan Mullen and Billy Napier era. The latter, now in his second year on the Swamp’s sidelines, has an uphill battle to climb against one of the toughest schedules among Power Five conferences — much less, the Southeastern Conference.
ESPN released its updated Football Power Index numbers to accommodate the games recently played, which did not change anything for the Orange and Blue but still paints a picture of what the program’s expectations are this fall.
The FPI rankings were developed by ESPN in 2013 to measure each team’s overall strength and predict results throughout the season. As the schedule progresses, the data used to determine a team’s FPI ranking will come from the games played while also predicting the outcomes for each future matchup.
Take a look below at ESPN’s FPI projections for Florida ahead of its season-opening tangle with Utah out in Salt Lake City, Utah.