The season was Charlie Bachman's second as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team.

[2] The highlights of the year included Southern Conference victories over the Virginia Military Institute Keydets, Auburn Tigers, Georgia Bulldogs, Clemson Tigers, South Carolina Gamecocks and Washington & Lee Generals, and a 20–6 intersectional upset over coach John McEwan's Oregon Webfoots in a neutral site game played at the old Madison Square Garden stadium in Miami, Florida.

[3] Coach Bachman began the season's intensive practices on the beach at Anastasia Island, about ten miles from Saint Augustine.

[20] After the game, acting under orders of Governor Graves, law enforcement officers seized and destroyed some 75 pints of liquor which had been brought to the contest.

Florida lost to coach Bill Alexander's Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets on Grant Field 19–6.

The Gators upset the Georgia Bulldogs for the second year in a row, by a score of 18 to 6,[23] just two days after the Stock Market Crash.

A long pass from Red Bethea to Green started things going in the second quarter, down to Georgia's 14-yard line.

Dale Van Sickel recovered a blocked punt in the third quarter inside the 30-yard line.

In the final minutes, Ed Sauls ran 60 yards through the Georgia defense, the highlight of the contest.

[25] Coach Arnold Horween's Harvard Crimson defeated the Florida Gators 14 to 0 in front of a crowd of 35,000.

The Gators defeated coach Billy Laval's South Carolina Gamecocks 20 to 7.

Florida substitutes started the game, coming in some 5 minutes in after a blocked punt on the 18-yard line.

A Van Sickel interception ended South Carolina's fiercest threat, which eventually turned into another Cawthon touchdown.

[31] The Gators defeated coach Gene Oberst's Washington & Lee Generals 25–7 in their annual Thanksgiving matchup.

At the old Madison Square Garden Stadium in Miami on December 7, in front of more than 25,000,[32] the Gators had a major inter-sectional victory over coach John McEwan's Oregon Webfoots 20 to 6.

[36] The following chart provides a visual depiction of Florida's lineup during the 1929 season with games started at the position reflected in parentheses.