Florida head coach Jim McElwain said he does not know whether Callaway will play against Tennessee on Saturday, Robbie Andreu of The Gainesville Sun reports.
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Florida’s defense was even better last Saturday against North Texas, allowing a school-record 53 yards on 50 plays.
With the Raiders Nashville to play the Tennesee Titans, the possibly existed that both the Raiders coach and general manager would be in attendance, with Kahlil McKenzie attempting to sack Luke Del Rio. The Gators wound up 6/13 and were 3/9 at one point in the game, including three early drives that came inside the North Texas 10 yard line only to result in, respectively, a field goal and two turnovers on downs.
Austin Appleby, a graduate transfer from Purdue, will start against Tennessee.
Florida starting quarterback Luke Del Rio left after he was hit low in the Gators game against North Texas. “We’ll stretch the field”. Hopefully this returns to being a theoretical SEC East championship game and something reminiscent to the visor throwing antics Spurrier brought us or the epic CBS televised 2 OT thriller in 2001.
“I don’t think the game plan’s going to change at all”, Appleby said. He threw for 2,777 yards, with 19 touchdowns and 19 interceptions. He threw 16 touchdown passes and 18 interceptions and had seven rushing scores. He’s now Florida’s starting quarterback. In fact, they were ranked as the #9 team in the AP Poll to start the year.
“First of all, you shouldn’t need that to motivate you”, Jones said.
In all, this was not entirely unexpected, but the check cleared and that’s why we play games like this.
“I’m excited about the opportunity to go and execute with my brothers and play at a high level”, Appleby said.
“We got a guy that we’re extremely confident in just based on the preparation that he puts into the game and how hard to goes at it in practice each and every day”, star linebacker Jarrad Davis said. At the same time, we’ve got to make sure that Feleipe (Franks) and Kyle (Trask) are ready as well. Florida is 3-0 and arguably looked more impressive than the Vols thus far.
At 6-foot-4, 240 pounds, Appleby is bigger than the 6-1 Del Rio and is considered to have a stronger arm.
UNT slowed the Gators down for a large portion of the first half and showed some positive signs overall in Florida’s 32-0 win. “I saw a bunch of guys that did a really good job at film study”, he said.
Littrell said Wheeler did not intentionally try to injure Del Rio. Trainers rushed to the field as Del Rio ripped off his helmet. Del Rio eventually got up and was helped to the locker room. McElwain, who clearly thought the play was dirty, screamed at the Mean Green sideline and had to be restrained by officials and then his players.
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Scout writer Bob Redman also previously reported behind a paywall ($) that Del Rio was expected to miss two weeks. Gator Nation has two basic questions. Gator fans hoping he’ll be back sooner than later. UNT received $1 million for playing the game and didn’t appear to have any devastating injuries. The old record of 59 came against Western Carolina in 2006.
