The season was Bob Woodruff's third and most successful as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team.
"Pappa" Hall, alternating quarterbacks Doug Dickey and Fred Robinson, and lineman Charlie LaPradd, the Gators' lightest tackle and one of their two captains.
The national champion Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets beat Florida on a last-second field goal, 14–17.
[17] Even National champion Georgia Tech needed a last-second field goal to defeat the Gators.
The season ended with the Gators' first appearance in an NCAA-sanctioned bowl game, a closely matched 14–13 Gator Bowl victory over the Tulsa Golden Hurricane on January 1, 1953, in which star fullback Rick Casares kicked the winning extra points for the margin of victory.