The season was Raymond Wolf's second as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team.
[1] On October 18, 1947, the Gators broke a 13-game post-war losing streak, dating back to the final game of the 1945 season, when they upset the 18th-ranked NC State Wolfpack, 7–6, on the Wolfpack's home field in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Among the other highlights of the season, the Gators beat the in-state rival Miami Hurricanes in Miami, and ended the season with a 25–7 intersectional victory over the Kansas State Wildcats.
[1] Florida halfback Bobby Forbes was selected by the Associated Press as a second-team player on the 1947 All-SEC football team.
74 (out of 500 college football teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1947.