Sumrall and his team are 4-0 with a 24-point beatdown of a top-five Ole Miss team less than one week ago.This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners.If you sign up or place a wager, FOX News may be compensated.
This content was created by a team that works independently from the FOX newsroom.Recruiting is on fire and the whole program looks like a completely different monster than they did this time a year ago.FLORIDA DROPS IMPRESSIVE OFFENSIVE PERFORMANCE TO PULL OFF MASSIVE WIN OVER NO.4 OLE MISSFlorida Gators head coach Jon Sumrall looks on during the second half of a game against the Ole Miss Rebels at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla., on Sept.
26, 2026.(Getty Images)A lot of that is due to Sumrall's intensity as a head coach.The 44-year-old first-time SEC coach has taken great pride in returning the edge that has been missing from Gainesville since Urban Meyer exited Alachua County back in December 2010.Just hearing the man talk for more than 60 seconds confirms this, and in keeping with the theme of being an absolute psychopath (in the best way possible, of course), Sumrall is instituting a ritual for his Tuesday practices which will ensure maximum violence and physicality.He's calling it "Bloody Tuesday."FLORIDA COACH JON SUMRALL REVEALS EARLY CAREER STRUGGLES, LIVING IN SLUMS OF SAN DIEGO AND 'CARRYING A GLOCK'"We got a great indoor (practice facility) here," Sumrall said on The Triple Option Podcast.
"On Tuesdays, we don’t use the damn indoor.I don’t want anybody going in the indoor on Tuesday.
We’re going to be outside.I hope it’s hot.
Tuesdays have to be physical and violent, and you gotta strain, or you don’t know how to play way on Saturday."If you're a Gator fan, you have to be pumped hearing that.Jon Sumrall speaks during a press conference introducing him as the new head football coach at the James W."Bill" Heavener Football Training Center at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla., on D...