1945 Florida Gators football team

1945 Florida Gators football
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
Record4–5–1 (1–3–1 SEC)
Head coach
CaptainHugo Miller
Home stadiumFlorida Field
Seasons
← 1944
1946 →
1945 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 2 Alabama $ 6 0 0 10 0 0
No. 14 Tennessee 3 1 0 8 1 0
No. 15 LSU 5 2 0 7 2 0
No. 18 Georgia 4 2 0 9 2 0
Ole Miss 3 3 0 4 5 0
Georgia Tech 2 2 0 4 6 0
Mississippi State 2 3 0 6 3 0
Auburn 2 3 0 5 5 0
Vanderbilt 2 4 0 3 6 0
Florida 1 3 1 4 5 1
Tulane 1 3 1 2 6 1
Kentucky 0 5 0 2 8 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1945 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1945 college football season. The season was the fifth and last for Tom Lieb as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. The 1945 backfield was made up entirely of freshmen.[1]

Among the season's highlights was the Gators' 26–13 neutral site victory over the Ole Miss Rebels played in Jacksonville. The Gators also split a pair of games against teams from two U.S. military training bases. Lieb's 1945 Florida Gators finished with a 4–5–1 overall record and a 1–3–1 record in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), placing ninth among twelve SEC teams.[2]

  1. ^ Golenbock 2002, p. 6
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference ufmediaguide was invoked but never defined (see the help page).