No.

UF had some very good teams in Spurrier's playing days and at other times. UF was just that program that would come up a little bit short and manage to drop a game here or there. For so many years, without a CCG and a shorter schedule, one loss was it. Spurrier put UF over the top but UF's lack of titles prior to him was not because of some magical quality where they needed a HOF coach. Bryant always called UF a sleeping giant. He was right. Right now, the giant is sleeping, in a coma.

Ray Graves had a lot of very good teams way back in the day. Pell had a great team in 83, and the best team in the nation in 84, and easily a top 5 team if not the best team in 85. Muschamp was like old Florida - there was only one team in the country that would have potentially beaten Bama in 2012 and it was UF. Muschamp had the best defense in the country but one strange offensive play against UGA and that was that. Zook had solid teams, was a great recruiter, but he was a setup man, and without Zook, Meyer doesn't win jack in 06. Zook brought in a lot of talent.

UF football prior to Spurrier can be summed by this: Run Lindsey Run. Great performance other than that one play. That's just how it was.

That said, Spurrier is the most important man in the history of the school. No one brought more to UF than Spurrier. So much attention, fan support, visitors and business activity, more enrollment etc. There has never been a prolonged time of excitement on UF's campus like the 1990s. 1980s pretty close with Pell, but probation put a damper on that in the last half of the decade.