Florida Gators are blown up because he planned an absolute joke of a game in 2025

The Florida Gators catch heat for their schedule of 2025, not for the reasons they would expect. Sure, you have a brutal SEC slate with Matchups against Georgia, Tennessee, LSU and Texas, but a game has found out for the wrong reasons: your season start against the Long Island Sharks, an FCS program that most of the occasional fans probably have never heard.

It is one thing to plan a lighter opponent as a tune-up game, but this matchup has been roasted for a total dud throughout the college football world. The long -time SEC analyst Paul Finebaum did not hold it back, called it “completely stabilized” and asked why a program of Florida's caliber would even bother to plan it. He is not alone – many fans have expressed their frustration and say that they prefer to see Florida a real challenge – or even a serious FCS what looks like a simple blowout victory.

To be fair, the Gators are not the only team that is guilty of throwing an FCS team on their schedule. This has been a usual practice in college football for years, with large programs adding these games to ensure a victory and at the same time helping smaller schools to secure a salary check. But at a time when fans demand more competitive matchups -especially with the extended college football playoff -these games feel even more unnecessary.

But let's be honest here: if you want to plan an FCS opponent, why don't you make him a school in the state?

For Florida, this game doesn't help to help her reputation. After head coach Billy Napier had to struggle in the last seasons, tries to get the program back on the right track. If the Gators want to be taken seriously again as a candidate, it is not the right way to plan FCS opponents in their season opener like Long Island.

Would a game like this be acceptable if Florida didn't already have one of the country's hardest schedules? Perhaps. But if you are in the Sec, every game counts and the fans want to see matchups that actually mean something. Instead, you get what looks like a snooze festival in the early season-one that may not even be seen in the first quarter.

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