After the game, McElwain said he took the hit on his quarterback personally and said he told Littrell that he didn’t think the late hit was intentional during the postgame handshake.
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The 19th-ranked Gators (3-0) will turn to former Purdue starter Austin Appleby against the Volunteers (3-0).
“I got their back”. “They know how much I want them to be successful, not just as a player but successful when this football thing is over”. “I’ve been to Michigan State”, Appleby reportedly said. “I feel awful for him, especially ow it happened”.
The injury occurred on a low hit by North Texas defensive end Josh Wheeler, who was called for a personal foul.
Florida scored 45 points in a win against Kentucky last week behind four touchdown passes from Del Rio.
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.
Tyler Murphy replaced an injured Jeff Driskel in 2013 with Florida trailing 7-0 and threw for one touchdown and ran for another score to spark the Gators to a 31-17 victory. “. He always gets us right and I just wanted to return the favor”. We’re not going to change as far as throwing the ball down the field.
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As of yet it is uncertain how bad the injury truly is, enough so that Del Rio hasn’t been officially ruled out for the coming game against Tennessee. Austin Appleby wanted to compliment Jim McElwain’s support of Florida players. “A couple slaps on the butt, ‘Here we go, let’s do it men.’ It doesn’t matter who’s in”. An enterprising Tennessee fan set up a GoFundMe page for Appleby’s “funeral” on Saturday, though the page no longer exists. However, the time is now for them to take the next step and to beat Florida. “We’ll definitely go back and watch the film and see what we did well, what we can improve on and get ready for Monday to be a better football team when we come to practice”. He has completed 62 of 101 passes for 762 yards with six touchdown passes and two interceptions for the 3-0 Gators. Joining Sutton on the injury list last week were linebackers Quart’e Sapp (ACL) and Jalen Reeves-Maybin (shoulder), though Tennessee expects Reeves-Maybin to go while Sapp, a reserve, has been lost for the season.
