Gators release 2020 football schedule

Who will the Florida Gators play in 2020, and where?

The 2019 Florida Gators football season hasn't even kicked off yet, but the hype for 2020 just started.

Florida's football schedule for 2020 has officially been released, with four SEC home games, three non-division games in The Swamp, and a trip to Oxford, Mississippi for the first time since 2007.

The schedule is as follows, with home games in bold:

• Sep. 5, 2020: Eastern Washington @ Florida
• Sep. 12, 2020: Kentucky @ Florida (SEC)
• Sep. 19, 2020: South Alabama @ Florida
• Sep. 26, 2020: Florida @ Tennessee (SEC)
• Oct. 3, 2020: South Carolina @ Florida (SEC)
• Oct. 10, 2020: Louisiana State @ Florida (SEC)
• Oct. 17, 2020: Florida @ Ole Miss (SEC)
• Oct. 24, 2020: BYE
• Oct. 31, 2020: Georgia vs. Florida (SEC - in Jacksonville, FL)
• Nov. 7, 2020: Florida @ Vanderbilt (SEC)
• Nov. 14, 2020: Missouri @ Florida (SEC)
• Nov. 21, 2020: New Mexico State @ Florida
• Nov. 28, 2020: Florida @ Florida State

Florida will open the season with three consecutive home games, including SEC action against Kentucky. Getting South Carolina and LSU in back to back weeks will be a challenge, but both games being in The Swamp is a plus.

The October 17th trip to Ole Miss marks the first time Florida will have faced the Rebels in Oxford since 2007, a game in which Florida 30-24. 

Florida will have only one bye week in 2020, unlike this season's three byes: One following "Week Zero" against Miami on August 24th, a second at the end of October, and a third before the season finale against Florida State, in Gainesville.