{"id":258186,"date":"2025-10-29T06:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/258186\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T06:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:52:07","slug":"updated-betting-odds-and-a-new-favorite-for-the-next-florida-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/258186\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated betting odds and a new favorite for the next Florida coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the third time since being released last week, Bet Online has updated its odds for the next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/florida-gators\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Gators<\/a> coach. Ole Miss coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/lane-kiffin-135051\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lane Kiffin<\/a> was the favorite in the first two odds, but there\u2019s a new leader in the clubhouse. <\/p>\n<p>Missouri coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/eli-drinkwitz-133588\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Drinkwitz<\/a> is now listed as the favorite for the job with -105 odds, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/sportsbook\/futures-and-props\/ncaaf-specials\/coaches\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bet Online<\/a>. Drinkwitz is 44-26 (24-22 SEC) at Mizzou and 6-2 this season after going 10-3 last year and 11-2 in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/florida-gators\/news\/digging-into-the-eli-drinkwitz-era-at-missouri\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Digging into the Eli Drinkwitz era at Missouri<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kiffin is no longer in top two with +300 odds after previously holding the top spot at +200 and +190 odds, respectively. Kiffin is 51-19 in Oxford, 29-17 in the SEC and has the No. 7 Rebels off to a 7-1 start and in CFB Playoff contention.<\/p>\n<p>Behind Drinkwitz \u2014 and ahead of Kiffin \u2014 is former Penn State coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/james-franklin-131195\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Franklin<\/a> at second on the list. His latest odds for the Florida job are +200. Franklin went 104-45 at Penn State and 13-3 last year to reach the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Washington\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/jedd-fisch-132684\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jedd Fisch<\/a> (+900) and Louisville\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/jeff-brohm-133414\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Brohm<\/a> (+1000) round out the top five for the betting odds on UF\u2019s next coach. Fisch is 6-2 this year and went 10-3 at Arizona in 2023, while Brohm currently has a 6-1 mark after 10 and nine wins in his first two years.  <\/p>\n<p>The remaining odds at this time are +1200 for USF\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/alex-golesh-132142\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Golesh<\/a>, +1400 for Arizona State\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/kenny-dillingham-134879\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kenny Dillingham<\/a>, +1600 for Georgia Tech\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/brent-key-134469\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brent Key<\/a> and +1800 for SMU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/rhett-lashlee-133584\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rhett Lashlee<\/a>. Of those four, Key is having the best season with an 8-0 record and No. 8 ranking. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sense is we will have a wide variety of candidates,\u201d Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin said of the coaching search. \u201cWe want people who can win championships at the University of Florida. That\u2019s going to be our goal. We want somebody who can come in here, be a strong leader and win championships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/news\/florida-coaching-search-latest-intel-following-lsu-opening\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida coaching search: Latest intel following the LSU opening<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Latest betting odds on the next Florida coach<\/p>\n<p>Drinkwitz: -105 <br \/>Franklin: +200 <br \/>Kiffin: +300 <br \/>Fisch: +900 <br \/>Brohm: +1000 <br \/>Golesh: +1200 <br \/>Dillingham: +1400<br \/>Key: +1600<br \/>Lashlee: +1800<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 21 odds<\/p>\n<p>Kiffin: +190 <br \/>Franklin: +300 <br \/>Brohm: +500 <br \/>Drinkwitz: +500 <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/marcus-freeman-82674\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Freeman<\/a>: +800 <br \/>Fisch: +900 <br \/>Key: +1200 <br \/>Dillingham: +1400<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 20 odds<\/p>\n<p>Kiffin: +200 <br \/>Brohm: +300 <br \/>Franklin: +600 <br \/>Drinkwitz: +700 <br \/>Freeman: +800 <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/urban-meyer-132190\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Meyer<\/a>: +900 <br \/>Fisch: +1000 <br \/>Golesh: +1200 <br \/>Key: +1200 <br \/>Dillingham: +1400 <br \/>Lashlee: +1600<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the third time since being released last week, Bet Online has updated its odds for the next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-258186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}