This past Saturday, Will Muschamp lost his sixth home game as head football coach for the University of Florida. That brings his record in The Swamp to 18 wins and six losses. What was once an intimidating place for opponents under Steve Spurrier and Urban Meyer has returned to Zookian levels.

For comparison, Steve Spurrier lost five home games total in his 12 years at Florida. With the fifth one coming in his second to last game as head coach for the Gators. All of his home losses also came against ranked teams:

#1 Florida State
#6 Auburn
#21 Alabama
#1 Florida State
#5 Tennessee

Urban Meyer? He also lost just five home games during his six year tenure as head football coach at Florida. Though, not all of his losses were against ranked teams like Spurrier:

Auburn
Ole Miss
#12 LSU
Mississippi State
#22 South Carolina

Obviously, we know that up to this point Muschamp’s career hasn’t followed the same arc as Spurrier or Meyer. What about Ron Zook? How did he fare in The Swamp? In his three years as head coach at Florida he lost six home games, all but one against a ranked team:

#1 Miami
#18 LSU
#12 Tennessee
Ole Miss
#9 Florida State
#24 LSU

Granted, Zook never managed to defeat a ranked opponent in The Swamp, and Muschamp has beaten two ranked teams on Florida Field. However, Muschamp has also lost to four unranked teams:

#3 Alabama
Florida State
Vanderbilt
Georgia Southern
#2 Florida State
LSU

Outside of the defense totally melting down, losing games in The Swamp is the quickest way for Will Muschamp to get fired. A loss to unranked Missouri this Saturday likely seals his fate and forever has him drawing comparisons to Zook in the annals of Florida football history.