Looks similar to my girl! Not exactly the same though so I don't think they are the same species. Do you have pictures of her eyes and her underside? My gal is a carolinensis I found hallway up a mountain.
A ventral shot could help rule out some of the Hogna spp. Do you know where it was collected? H. carolinensis has a lot of color variation, especially the populations found in Texas, Arizona, etc, but it does look like some of the known Geolycosa that I’ve seen too.
There are subspecies: G. xera xera (from northern-mid-central FL), and G. xera archboldi (from southern central FL). If this species came from Florida, then I think that's what it is.
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