Category: Football

  • Recapping Florida’s Award Season

    With the final FBS matchup of the year set for the 11th, the first week of 2021 saw a heaping helping of awards and recognitions doled out. Tuesday night was the Heisman presentation and on Thursday fans saw other national award winners plus the Walter Camp All-America Team announced. I did my best to aggregate…

  • Why Dan Mullen would jump to the NFL

    Dan Mullen is linked to the National Football League once again. It’s obvious coaching in a league like that is vastly different from Mullen’s current position. It comes with it’s own set of risks and rewards, benefits and drawbacks. While we still don’t know if anything will come of Sunday’s report it’s hard to ignore…

  • Why Dan Mullen should NOT want to leave for the NFL

    Dan Mullen reportedly is open to coaching at the professional level, Adam Schefter reported Sunday. Mullen, who has been Florida’s head coach the past three years, has a 29-9 record helming the Gators to go with a pair of New Year’s Six bowl wins (2018 Peach Bowl, 2019 Orange Bowl). He won the SEC East…

  • Is Dan Mullen Going to the League?

    In short, we don’t know. But let’s look at it, shall we? Adam Schefter gave Gator fans an unsettling bit of news on the final week of the NFL regular season. According to Schefter, Florida football’s Dan Mullen is reportedly open to heading to the National Football League. Now, before everyone freaks out, it’s just…

  • Grading the Gators: Oklahoma

    Blown out. Stomped. Shellacked. Mollywhopped. Embarrassed. Any of these fits to describe what happened to Florida on a long Wednesday night in Texas. After a while, or maybe once victory was clearly not an option, it took on a scrimmage-like nature for Florida. So let’s go ahead and evaluate an opportunity clearly taken by Dan…

  • Kyle Trask declares for NFL Draft

    Florida quarterback Kyle Trask declared for the NFL Draft Thursday afternoon, making the announcement through a video via Twitter. “It’s been everything to be a Gator,” Trask says to begin the announcement. The signal-caller goes on to reminisce on his unlikely journey to playing for the orange and blue quickly and thank the fans for…

  • Sooners Run Past Gators in Cotton Bowl, 55-20

    Florida suffered one of its worst losses of the Dan Mullen era on Wednesday night. The Gators entered the game a shell of their former selves after many of their top playmakers chose to opt out of the game. With the absence of Kyle Pitts, Trevon Grimes, Kadarius Toney, and Jacob Copeland, Florida was missing…

  • Staff Predictions: Cotton Bowl, Florida vs Oklahoma

    We’ve reached the conclusion of the 2020 season as Florida takes on the Oklahoma Sooners in Wednesday’s Goodyear Cotton Bowl. Surely, you remember the last time these two teams met, back in 2008? The following are our staff’s predictions for the Cotton Bowl: … Brian Fox: This is a game I could see going in…

  • Cotton Bowl Preview: Florida vs Oklahoma

    This game was a bit more intriguing before Monday rolled around. The Gators were -3-point favorites over the Sooners, a spread that might have been even higher if star tight end, Kyle Pitts hadn’t already opted out. However, the Vegas bookmakers have now changed there minds, giving the edge to Oklahoma. After the news that…

  • Toney, Grimes Opt Out of Cotton Bowl; Declare for NFL Draft

    Kyle Trask’s receiving corps will look pretty different in Arlington, Texas. Gator fans will essentially see what next year’s offense could look like when it comes to skill player utilization. Florida now won’t have it’s nos. 2 and 3 receivers for the Cotton Bowl after Kyle Pitts opted out earlier. Senior wideouts Trevon Grimes and…