The Horns return to DKR as heavy favorites.
After the second bye week of the season, the No. 5 Texas Longhorns are back at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium as 21.5-point favorites over the Florida Gators, as of Monday morning on FanDuel.
Florida and Texas will meet for the fourth time overall and the first time since 1940, a 26-0 win by the Horns in Gainesville in the season finale.
Led by embattled third-year head coach Billy Napier, the Gators enter the game at 4-4 overall and 2-3 in SEC play following Saturday’s 34-20 loss to the No. 2 Bulldogs in the World’s Largest Cocktail Party in Jacksonville. In conference play, Florida has a 45-28 win over Mississippi State in Starkville and a 48-20 win over Kentucky in Gainesville.
In further bad news for Napier, who is already without starting quarterback Graham Mertz, his star 2024 signee, former consensus five-star prospect DJ Lagway, suffered what Napier initially called a “pretty significant” hamstring injury in the first quarter of Saturday’s loss to Georgia. Lagway was carted off the field, but on Monday, Napier called it “less significant” than feared on Saturday. Redshirt freshman Aidan Warner finished the game, going 7-of-22 passing for 66 yards and an interception. He was sacked twice.