Redshirt sophomore Luke Del Rio is the Gators’ starting quarterback in Saturday’s season opener against UMass. Purdue graduate transfer Austin Appleby is cemented as his backup.
The Florida football team has playmakers throughout its roster, but will one player stand out from the rest this season? In the second edition of the alligatorSports roundtable, football writers Ethan Bauer, Ian Cohen, Jordan McPherson and Patrick Pinak predict who will be Florida’s Most Valuable Player in 2016.
Steve Spurrier didn’t forget about Dre.
Antonio Callaway has been taking reps with the first-team offense during practice over the last three weeks.
At 6-foot-6 with piercing green eyes, Fred Johnson is a man who walks into a room and demands attention.
With UF’s season opener against UMass fast approaching, alligatorSports football writers Ethan Bauer, Ian Cohen, Jordan McPherson and Patrick Pinak take their best shots at predicting how the 25th-ranked Gators will fare this year.
There weren’t many players the Gators leaned on as much as Johnny Townsend last year.
The top two safeties in Florida’s 2013 recruiting class have taken strikingly different paths so far in their young careers.
When Bryan Cox walks up to the left side of the line of scrimmage and squares his 6-foot-3, 269-pound frame toward the quarterback, he has his eyes set on one player: sophomore offensive lineman Fred Johnson.
The NFL preseason is back in session, which means it's time for four weeks of almost-football: the grace period for rookies to get their feet wet and veterans to get back in form for Week 1. Halfway through the preseason, let’s take a look at how Florida’s former Gators are competing at the next level.
Last season, Jalen Tabor cast shadows over opposing wide receivers.
There’s meaning behind each of the tattoos that paint CeCe Jefferson’s right arm, and to begin to understand him, you need to understand them.
With the Florida football team several weeks into preseason camp, alligatorSports Editors Ian Cohen and Ethan Bauer take a look at UF's position groups on defense and special teams and provide analysis from the first few weeks of Fall practice.
Luke Del Rio was destined to start at quarterback for Jim McElwain.
After two weeks of preseason camp, Florida has named its starting quarterback.
It’s 3 a.m. and your phone rings. Struggling to shake the crust from your eyes, you wonder who it could be. And then it smacks you like cold water to the face.
Florida cornerback Jalen Tabor and tight end C’yontai Lewis have been suspended from the team and will miss UF's season opener on Sept. 3, Florida announced on Wednesday.
The biggest difference was the weather.
In the last nine months, Antonio Callaway has been suspended from his university, isolated from his teammates and accused of sexual assault.
As far as consistency was concerned for the Florida Gators last season, UF coach Jim McElwain needed to look no further than Johnny Townsend.
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