Aug 29, 2023
As if Florida’s season opener in Salt Lake City was not challenging enough, the Gators hit the road a day early as Hurricane Idalia made its way to the Sunshine State. Billy Napier aims to make the best of it, if not benefit from the schedule change. The 2023 Gators certainly appear to be more talented and tightly...
Aug 23, 2023
Coach Billy Napier enters his second season up to his eyeballs in a massive rebuild and facing low expectations, but he does have history on his side. Year 2’s have been good to the Gators ever since Steve Spurrier’s 1991 team produced the program’s first 10-win season. Napier’s second team at Louisiana also was...
Aug 17, 2023
New starting quarterback Graham Mertz spoke for the first time since the spring game and a few days after Billy Napier named him starting quarterback. Mertz said all the right things. The question is whether he can make all the right moves for the Gators. Former UF QB Anthony Richardson has made enough of them to earn...
Aug 10, 2023
Florida’s fall camp entered Week 2 in pull pads and with a full plate. Billy Napier targeted the team’s first scrimmage, set for Aug. 10, as he name’s a starting quarterback - or is it, names Graham Mertz the starting quarterback? Mertz, a 22, fifth-year player, brings experience and leadership to a team with...
Aug 4, 2023
Florida kicked off Billy Napier’s second fall camp as the Gators prepare for the Aug. 31 opener at Utah. The Utes are the reigning champions of the Pac-12, but time will tell what remains of the conference following Oregon and Washington’s jump to the Big Ten amid unceasing realignment. The Gators suffered an early...