If there is a team you want to be facing to right the ship after a tough stretch, it’s Vanderbilt. When Florida rolls into Nashville they’re going to see a Commodores team that is riding a 27-game SEC losing streak, a slide that dates all the way back to 2018. In their first season under Jerry Stackhouse the team has shown improvement but it’s a team that’s one of the youngest in the country and one that doesn’t have a lot of high level recruits to make up for their lack of experience.
Considering Vanderbilt’s struggles it’s not like a win over them would completely turn around the season for the Gators or give them some of the confidence they’ve been lacking but it’s a starting point and more than that, it would be a heartbreaking loss they simply have to avoid.