SMU The season opened with a 24–8 win over the
SMU Mustangs. After quarterback Tom Shannon led the Gators to a 10–8 halftime lead, Spurrier entered the contest and threw a 56-yard pass to Jack Harper.
Mississippi State In the second week of play, the Gators beat the
Mississippi State Bulldogs, 16–13.
Ole Miss Florida beat
Ole Miss, 30–14.
South Carolina At homecoming, Florida beat
South Carolina, 37–0.
Alabama •
Sources: As they entered their 1964
homecoming game against Florida, Alabama was ranked No. 3 and Florida No. 9 in the AP Poll. Against the
Gators, Alabama rallied for a 17–14 comeback victory after they scored ten unanswered points in the fourth quarter. Spurrier ran in the final score from 5 yards out.
Georgia Despite Georgia's overall advantage in the series, Florida enjoyed a 10–2 streak from 1952 to 1963 under head coaches
Bob Woodruff and
Ray Graves. That changed with the arrival of
Vince Dooley as the new head coach of the underdog
1964 Georgia Bulldogs. In a game where the Bulldogs' quarterback failed to complete a single pass and was intercepted twice, Dooleys' 'Dogs relied on their running game, a staunch second-half defense, and a little bit of luck to beat Graves' tenth-ranked Gators. With the game tied at 7–7 in the fourth quarter, Bulldogs placekicker
Bob Etter lined up for a potential game-winning field goal. Florida State quarterback
Steve Tensi hit
Fred Biletnikoff with a first-half touchdown, helping the Seminoles to a 13–0 lead at the half as the Gator offense fumbled four times, including once at the FSU one-yard line. Florida, led by quarterback
Steve Spurrier, finally scored in the 3rd quarter to cut the lead to 13–7, but were unable to find the endzone again. Les Murdock kicked a 42-yard field goal to secure the win for FSU, 16–7.
Miami (FL) Florida defeated the
Miami Hurricanes, 12–10.
LSU During the buildup to the 1964 game in Baton Rouge, all signs pointed to an exciting game to be played, with LSU playing especially hot at the time. UF, though unranked, was beginning to make some waves of its own with an exciting up-and-coming young player (and future Heisman Trophy winner) named Steve Spurrier. Then, after being delayed several weeks to the season finale due to
Hurricane Hilda, the game ended up being anticlimactic with UF rolling to a surprisingly easy 20–6 win over the No. 7 Tigers. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that it was Spurrier's first win over LSU – the first of a long win streak that he would have over the Tigers as a player and head coach. ==Roster==