January 12, 2021
With the spring semester starting on Monday, the Florida Gators welcomed early enrollees to campus over the last several days.
Currently the No. 12 recruiting class in the nation, the Gators had 12 signees enroll early, along with the addition of a pair of transfers.
As we count down the months to spring football, Gator Country will take a look at how Florida’s early enrollees fit into their new roles, starting with the offensive side of the ball.
Carlos Del Rio-Wilson (QB)
The headlining quarterback signee in Florida’s 2021 class, Del Rio-Wilson has outstanding potential in the coming years. However, he will likely have to wait his turn to get on the field.
A year of all-conference play has come to a close. There’s no playoff or conference championship, but there is still a first for the seventh-ranked Florida Gators.
It’s their first-ever appearance in the Cotton Bowl Classic, and they face the sixth-ranked Oklahoma Sooners on Dec. 30 at 8 p.m.
This will be the second time ever as well that Florida will play Oklahoma. The first time these two played each other, they faced off in the 2009 BCS National Championship. Florida; led by quarterback Tim Tebow, Head Coach Urban Meyer and offensive coordinator Dan Mullen; beat Oklahoma 24-14 to win their third national title.
December 21, 2020
Florida held its own against Alabama better than most expected in the SEC Championship Game. The Gators came oh-so-close to pulling it off if not for a handful of plays and penalties, too. The numbers show Bama as having the better performance overall, but they also show it wasn’t a fluke that UF was in it at the end.
This review is based on Bill Connelly’s Five Factors of winning, and sacks are counted as pass plays. I excluded the one-play series at the end of the first half.
Explosiveness
Everyone has a different definition for what counts as an “explosive play”, but I go with runs of at least 12 yards and passes of at least 16 yards.
Florida 63, Arkansas 35: Gators gut Hogs behind Kyle Trask’s mastery
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Yeah, Feleipe Franks returned to The Swamp on Saturday night.
But the Florida Gators didn’t miss him for a moment and their current quarterback is continuing to author a season that qualifies as can’t-miss in more than one way.
Kyle Trask threw for 356 yards and six touchdowns as many as he had incompletions and Florida scored four touchdowns in a second quarter for a second straight week, building up a big lead that held up even after Arkansas’s big plays in a 63-35 win.
December 16, 2020
Florida’s loss to LSU still doesn’t entirely make sense to me. I can see what the Gators were trying to do on offense, and for the most part, I can’t argue with it. It’s hard to run up more than 600 yards, nearly 200 more than the opponent, and lose.
Because the defensive issues were basically the same as they’ve been all year which is an indictment of the management on that side of the ball, not an offhand comment tossed out without a care I focused on the offense to see what went wrong. Even as the defense had its problems, this was the first game where you could say the UF offense played a major role in the team’s downfall. This is what I found.