The National Championship game for the 2019 season has yet to be played, but that isn’t stopping some from looking ahead to 2020, including Urban Meyer.

The legendary head coach picked one of his former teams -- Florida -- to be the top breakout team next season in college football. Meyer coached the Gators from 2005-2010 and won three National Championships in the process.

“First of all Dan Mullen is an excellent coach,” Meyer said on FS1. “They have to beat Georgia. They have their quarterback coming back, but there is chaos in the state of Florida. Miami is down. Florida State is down, and when that happens -- you start taking advantage, and what that means is that all those great players. -- you have the flagship university in the state of Florida and you start getting those kids in there. I’d look for the Gators to push that top-five -- maybe even higher.”

Joel Klatt then mentioned experienced quarterbacks, and threw Kyle Trask’s name in there with experiened guys returning like Justin Fields, Treor Lawrence and Sean Clifford at Penn State.

Trask took over for the injured Feleipe Franks in Week 3 and led a thunderous comeback against Kentucky in Lexington. The Gators only lost two games this season with Trask under center, at LSU and against Georgia.

In 2019, Trask finished third in the SEC in several statistical categories for quarterbacks. The position isn’t all about yards and touchdowns. Those certainly matter and scoring touchdowns is why the offense is on the field, but the passer rating, a measure of four components (completion percentage, yards per attempt, touchdowns per attempt, and interceptions per attempt), is a frequently used metric in ranking quarterbacks. In terms of Trask, his 156.6 rating to conclude the season among quarterbacks that had a minimum of 15.0 pass attempts per game and played in 75% of the games on the schedule, was second in the SEC.

Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa would have been second, but he missed too many games. Of course LSU’s Joe Burrow was the king of most of the quarterback stats in 2019. The key here is that with Tagovailoa’s announcement to enter the 2020 NFL Draft on Monday, Trask will enter the season in 2020 as the QB with the top passer rating in the SEC.

Eliminating Tua and Burrow next year as they finished their eligibility, the theme continues for Trask. He will return as the SEC’s leader in yards per game (245.1), total yards (2,941), and completion percentage (66.9%) from the 2019 season.

Trask should have some key components returning to make his job even easier next season. Instead of lining up behind an offensive line that lost four starters, he now will have to take snaps from a new center, but more or less four returning starters up front.

Trask and the offense also got good news over the weekend when junior receiver Trevon Grimes announced he will return for his senior season. Grimes will have to step up his game with four major targets in Van Jefferson, Tyrie Cleveland, Josh Hammond, and Freddie Swain all moving on after finishing their senior seasons in December. The Gators could also be in play for Penn State transfer and former five-star receiver Justin Shorter, who just saw a prediction for Florida enter his 247Sports Crystal Ball.

He will also have the top tight end in the SEC returning with Kyle Pitts having a huge sophomore season finishing with 54 receptions for 649 yards and five touchdowns in 2019.

As Meyer said, it will all come down to beating Georgia. The Gators have not done that since 2016.