The season was Bob Woodruff's eighth as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team.
Ten games were scheduled, but the season opener against the UCLA Bruins was canceled when most of the Gators team members were suffering from a serious bout of influenza.
The Gators were led by quarterback Jimmy Dunn, and two-way halfbacks Bernie Parrish and Jim Rountree.
[11] The Gators were shut out 13–0 by coach Ralph Jordan's national champion Auburn Tigers.
At the end of the season, the Gators finished in the top twenty of the final AP Poll for only the second time in their history,[1]'