The Gators played their home games at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Florida, and competed in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).

[1] They lost to Alabama in the SEC Championship Game and to Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl, finishing the season with a 8–4 record and ranked No.

On July 31, the Southeastern Conference announced that its teams would play a ten-game conference-only season beginning in late September.

Florida's previously scheduled games against non-conference opponents Eastern Washington, New Mexico State, and South Alabama were all canceled due to the scheduling change, as was the annual rivalry game against Florida State, breaking a streak of annual meetings that began in 1957.

Conference games against Texas A&M and Arkansas were added to increase the usual eight-game SEC schedule to ten.

[3][4] Attendance at all college football games was restricted during the 2020 season due to COVID-19 social distancing considerations.