Florida’s ball security has generally been good under Napier. The Gators ranked in the top 25 in fewest turnovers in both of Napier’s first two seasons. His worst season (14 turnovers in 2022) matched the best by his predecessor, Dan Mullen. But only 14 teams have lost more turnovers this season than UF (six).

Prior to this campaign, the Gators never had suffered two double-digit home losses during their initial three games.

There was no Sunday sacking after all. Despite another listless, dispiriting home loss — this a lopsided 33-20 defeat to a first-year SEC head coach at Texas A&M — Billy Napier will get to man the sidelines at least one more game at Florida.