Will Muschamp will try to get the Gators turned around before playing at Tennessee on Oct. 4. (USATSI)
Muschamp will try to get the Gators turned around before playing at Tennessee on Oct. 4. (USATSI)

Florida is off this weekend, giving Will Muschamp and his staff a chance to rally the Gators after a deflating loss at Alabama. While the team works to correct mistakes before the SEC schedule continues with Tennessee, LSU and Missouri, Florida fans are talking about everything from Jeff Driskel's hold on the starting quarterback position to Muschamp's job security.

But while Treon Harris may have an opportunity to push Driskel, don't expect any changes to Muschamp's status before the end of the season.

Earlier this month -- after the Kentucky win, before the Alabama game -- athletic director Jeremy Foley told the Orlando Sentinel's Mike Bianchi during his radio show that Muschamp's program won't be evaluated without an entire body of work.

via the Orlando Sentinel: 

"You never judge or evaluate a program based on one game or one season," Foley said. "That's just not how we do things here. We're going to evaluate where we're headed -- where the players are, how is recruiting going, what type of staff we have -- are we a better [program]? That's going to be plain for all of us to see, but it's also going to be played out over the course of 11 games and we'll see where we are when we get to the end of the season."

What was concerning about Florida's loss to Alabama was not necessarily the school-record yards allowed but the fact that the Gators looked out of place in the biggest SEC game of the week.

With a difficult schedule and the rained-out opener, there is no magic number of wins for Muschamp to keep his job. Foley will look at Florida's performance in the biggest SEC games, and of course the season finale against Florida State, to judge the state of the program.

Those big games continue next week with a trip to Neyland Stadium against a young-but-feisty Tennessee team. Foley has given Muschamp an entire season to get things right, but the trip to Knoxville on Oct. 4 seems a bad game to lose given the current sentiment in Gainesville.