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The Gators announced starting safety Shawn Davis would be unavailable for Saturday's contest for undisclosed reasons. In addition to Davis, the Gators once again ruled out linebacker Jeremiah Moon, David Reese, Kahleil Jackson, Ethan Pouncey, Lamar Goods, Hayden Knighton, Jaelin Humphries, Trent Whittemore and Lucas Alonso. - Gainesville Sun

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OLB Jeremiah Moon, Florida
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12/05/20 - Kyle Trask, rSr/2021, Florida, 6-5, 236 (DS#7 QB) + More +

Kyle Trask threw for 433 yards and four touchdowns, and No. 6 Florida beat Tennessee 31-19 on Saturday to clinch a spot in the SEC championship game. Trask, a front-runner for the Heisman Trophy, put together another impressive performance. He completed 35 of 49 passes without committing a turnover. He even had a 32-yard punt late in the game. Kyle Pitts had seven receptions for 128 yards, helping the Gators (8-1, No. 6 CFP) wrap up the SEC's East Division. Kadarius Toney finished with eight catches for 108 yards and a TD. The aerial performance by Trask and company took on added significance with Florida struggling to run the ball, finishing with just 21 yards on the ground. Playing with a depleted roster, Tennessee (2-6) dropped its sixth consecutive game. The Vols were missing 16 players.

Freshman Harrison Bailey got the start at quarterback. He completed 14 of 21 passes for 111 yards and a 15-yard touchdown to Eric Gray. He was sacked five times. Trask has 38 TD passes this season, moving him into sixth place in SEC history for a single season, ahead of Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel and Tim Couch of Kentucky. He has the most TD passes through a team's first nine games. Five plays into the second half, the outcome was all but decided. Florida stretched a 10-point halftime advantage to 24-7 with a 75-yard drive capped by an 8-yard pass from Trask to Trevon Grimes. The big play in the sequence was a 48-yard connection between Trask and Kyle Pitts. Early in the fourth quarter, Florida upped the lead to 31-7 when Trask found Jacob Copeland for a 12-yard TD. - Florida/AP College Football

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QB Kyle Trask, Florida
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12/02/20 - Kyle Trask, rSr/2021, Florida, 6-5, 236 (DS#7 QB) + More +

With the college football regular season stretching well into December this year, we're still a few weeks from a conclusion. But it seems increasingly likely the Heisman winner will be determined in the Southeastern Conference championship game. Alabama quarterback Mac Jones and Florida quarterback Kyle Trask are neck and neck in this week's USA TODAY Network Heisman survey, with their teams on a collision course to meet Dec. 19 in Atlanta. Trask continues to hold the lead for now, named first by a majority of the official Heisman voters who work for USA TODAY Network properties. The Gators' signal caller has 34 touchdown passes and has thrown for at least three scores in all eight of Florida's games. He has 2,810 yards through the air, completing 71.4% of his attempts with just three interceptions. - Montgomery Advertiser

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QB Kyle Trask, Florida
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12/02/20 - Kyle Trask, rSr/2021, Florida, 6-5, 236 (DS#7 QB) + More +

At a program that had aerial wizardry under Steve Spurrier during the 1990s and the electric tandem of Tebow and Percy Harvin under Urban Meyer in the mid-2000s, the current Gators are on pace to be statistically superior in a coronavirus-altered season that has not allowed for the feasting on cupcakes such as Idaho and UT-Martin. Florida is averaging 7.41 yards per play, topping the 7.40-yards averaged by the 1995 Gators that had junior quarterback Danny Wuerffel. Trask leads the nation with 34 touchdown passes and is well within Wuerffel's single-season program mark of 39, which he compiled in 1996 on his way to the Heisman Trophy. The 6-5, 240-pound Trask is averaging 351.3 passing yards per game on an offense that is compiling 509.3 yards a contest.

"Dan has always done a really good job as a play-caller based off the personnel he has on his team," Pruitt said. "You look at them right now, and they're efficient running the football and throwing the football. They get the ball to a lot of different receivers and a lot of different running backs, and he's always done a fantastic job of mixing it up. "They're probably throwing it more now that they ever have, but that's based off his team, right? They've got a very good quarterback with a good surrounding cast. He's just playing to his strengths, and he's always done a good job of that." - Chattanooga Times Free Press

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QB Kyle Trask, Florida
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12/01/20 - *Kyle Pitts, Jr/2021, Florida, 6-6, 245 (DS#1 TE) + More +

What might be the best passing combination in college football has been three years in the making. Quarterback Kyle Trask and tight end Kyle Pitts spent 2018 working on the scout team or the second unit, mastering their skills, awaiting their chance and developing an unmistakable synergy. "We obviously go way back.," Trask said. "So chemistry's always been building. " Two seasons later, college football is struggling to break their bond. Trask and Pitts hooked up for three touchdowns against Kentucky, giving them 11 during just 22 quarters in 2020 - a TD pace no tandem in the game can match. The Wildcats' SEC-leading pass defense had no answer for the 6-foot-6, 240-pound Pitts, who finished with five catches for 99 yards. Welcome to the club, Kentucky.

The only thing to slow down Pitts this season was a vicious hit by Georgia safety Lewis Cine that led to his ejection and a concussion for Pitts. The tight end also required nose surgery because his helmet raked across his face and fractured his septum. When he returned to practice Monday, Pitts and Trask went back to work to make sure they were up to speed by Saturday. It was an example, Pitts said, of the commitment of the two players to the Gators and each other. "I can't even describe it for you," Pitts said of his bond with Trask. "But I can just say there's just days like, I feel like it was this whole week, where every day me and him stayed after practice...just getting the plays that we missed and just making sure when we came out here to the game we didn't miss that throw." - Sun Sentinel

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TE *Kyle Pitts, Florida
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11/30/20 - Kadarius Toney, Sr/2021, Florida, 6-0, 193 (DS#4 WR) + More +

NOV 30 SEC CO-SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Kadarius Toney, PR, Florida,...Toney returned a punt 50 yards for a touchdown which proved to be the decisive score in the game as Florida defeated Kentucky, 34-10, on Saturday...With the Gators trailing 10-7 late in the first half, Toney's return for a touchdown flipped the game's momentum back to Florida, giving them a 14-10 edge at halftime, which was a lead that the Gators wouldn't lose again...Toney is the third Gator since at least 1996 to score a passing, rushing, receiving and punt return touchdown in a career, joining Jacquez Green and Antonio Callaway...Toney's 50-yard punt return touchdown was the Gators' first punt return touchdown since Freddie Swain's 85-yarder for a touchdown against Colorado State on Sept. 15, 2018. - SEC Football

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WR Kadarius Toney, Florida
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11/28/20 - Kyle Trask, rSr/2021, Florida, 6-5, 236 (DS#7 QB) + More +

Florida's Kyle-to-Kyle connection returned in a big way after a two-week hiatus and put the sixth-ranked Gators on the verge of the Southeastern Conference championship game. Kyle Trask found Kyle Pitts for three touchdowns, including a 56-yarder in which the star tight end ran away from a cornerback, and Florida overcame a sluggish start to beat Kentucky 34-10 Saturday in the Swamp. It was Pitts' first game since suffering a concussion and breaking his nose on a vicious hit against Georgia. Trask wasted little time reconnecting with his favorite and most talented target.

Trask has 34 TD passes this season, moving him past 2007 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and into a tie for third on the school's single-season list. Only Danny Wuerffel (39 in 1996, 35 in 1995) is ahead of him. Rex Grossman also threw 34 in 2001. Trask did break one of Wuerffel's records Saturday. He became the first player in school history with at least three TD passes in eight consecutive games, topping Wuerffel's mark of seven set in 1996. Trask is on pace to pass Wuerffel for TDs, too, and it could happen in his final two regular-season games. More importantly for Trask and the Gators (7-1), though, is they can clinch the East Division with a victory at Tennessee next week. - Florida/AP College Football

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QB Kyle Trask, Florida
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11/26/20 - Kyle Trask, rSr/2021, Florida, 6-5, 236 (DS#7 QB) + More +

Everyone has their Heisman Trophy favorite, including back-up Florida quarterback Emory Jones. His is the guy in front of him - Kyle Trask. "I don't think anybody in the country is playing the way he is right now," Jones said. "Just the way he's operating and managing the game, I feel like that's the guy who's going to actually win the Heisman. The things he's doing are crazy. I don't think anybody is playing that well. It's pretty exciting."

Trask is clearly one of the Heisman leaders at this point. If the Gators keep winning and he keeps producing like he has, he very well could end up being the guy. "You're seeing players that are winning awards are on really good football teams," UF coach Dan Mullen said. "So, it's pretty easy to just keep the focus on the team, the team winning. If we keep winning and we're successful, Kyle's going to be putting up pretty good numbers. And he'll have the opportunity to get some individual awards. "He won't be the only one. Hopefully, there's other guys on the team that certainly have the opportunity with individual awards as well. But you increase your chances of that as long as the team does good." - Gainesville Sun

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QB Kyle Trask, Florida
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11/25/20 - Kyle Trask, rSr/2021, Florida, 6-5, 236 (DS#7 QB) + More +

The Florida quarterback's big break came last season in Lexington. Pressed into action after Feleipe Franks was injured, Trask rallied the Gators from 21-10 down after three quarters to victory. The performance established Trask as UF's starting QB. This year, the 6-foot-5, 240-pound product of Manvel, Texas, has emerged as, arguably, the Heisman Trophy favorite. Trask leads the nation in touchdown passes (31), is fourth in passing yards per game (364.8) and sixth in pass efficiency rating (197.1). - Herald Leader

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QB Kyle Trask, Florida
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11/25/20 - *Kyle Pitts, Jr/2021, Florida, 6-6, 245 (DS#1 TE) + More +

Florida tight end Kyle Pitts may have looked at the scoring production by teammates in the position room and decided it was time to return to the lineup. Pitts, injured in the first half of the Georgia game, will play Saturday against Kentucky, UF coach Dan Mullen announced Monday. Pitts was injured late in the first half of the win over Georgia on Nov. 14 after being hit by defensive back Lewis Cine while attempting to catch a pass over the middle. Pitts left the field with a concussion, and Cine was disqualified for targeting on the play. In his stead at tight end, Kemore Gamble has caught three touchdown passes and Keon Zipperer two. "He wanted to go play this past weekend," Mullen said of Pitts, who had nose surgery before last week. Pitts has 24 catches for 414 yards and eight touchdowns through five games. - Times Union

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TE *Kyle Pitts, Florida
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11/24/20 - Graham Mertz, rSr/2025, Florida, 6-3, 212 (DS#19 QB) + More +

After dealing with little to no on-the-field adversity while leading the University of Wisconsin football team to victories in his first two career starts, the redshirt freshman quarterback's inexperience showed Saturday afternoon against a terrific defense. Mertz turned the ball over four times - three interceptions and a fumble - in the No. 10 Badgers' 17-7 loss to No. 19 Northwestern at Ryan Field. It didn't help matters that Mertz didn't have his two best wide receivers on the field with him, and there was plenty of blame to go around on a UW offense that couldn't get out of its own way. But on a day when the Badgers needed their young star to be great, he instead took a step back. "I do believe what drives him is doing all he can for this team, and when you're not able to do that or do it enough, it's a growing situation," UW coach Paul Chryst said. "This one was painful for a lot of us, and we've got to learn from it. We've got to take away what you can from it and go forward.

"I don't know if there's many quarterbacks that play that don't go through those highs and those lows. You've got to find a way to continue to work through and be consistent when things are going well and when things aren't going well." Mertz completed 74.4 percent of his passes during his first two starts - sandwiched around a positive COVID-19 test that sidelined him for two weeks - but he went just 23 of 41 for 230 yards against the Wildcats (5-0). He attempted 64 passes without throwing an interception dating to his debut last season, but his first career pick came in the second quarter and that was followed by two more. "Northwestern's a great, veteran defense," Mertz said. "They knew what was coming with our progressions, so obviously there were some that I'd like to get back. But now it's just taking it as a learning experience and grow from it." - Journal Sentinel

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QB Graham Mertz, Florida
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11/23/20 - Kyree Campbell, Sr/2021, Florida, 6-3, 287 (DS#27 DT) + More +

NOV 23 SEC CO-DEFENSIVE LINEMAN OF THE WEEK: Kyree Campbell, DE, Florida,...Kyree Campbell led Florida's defense in tackles with nine on Saturday in the Gators' 38-17 win at Vanderbilt...Campbell had a career-high with his nine tackles (previous high was seven at Tennessee in 2018)...Campbell helped lead a defense that is ranked No. 1 in sacks per game (3.0) and No. 2 in tackles for loss per game (6.43) in the Southeastern Conference. - SEC Football

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DT Kyree Campbell, Florida
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11/21/20 - Kyle Trask, rSr/2021, Florida, 6-5, 236 (DS#7 QB) + More +

For those who think Florida quarterback Kyle Trask has been ridiculously good so far this season, just wait. You ain't seen nothin' yet. At least that's the word from two of his wide receivers - senior Trevon Grimes and sophomore Justin Shorter. "Honestly, (nothing he does surprises me). I see it every day at practice," Grimes said. "He goes out there and does things you guys haven't even seen yet. He is a phenomenal quarterback. He makes throws I've never seen before. He places balls in places that you wouldn't even expect to be able to go to. "So, for me he is not surprising at all. We know what he can do, and he has a lot more to tap into, and I can't wait until he does and shows the world how good of a quarterback he really is and the potential he has. Even though he has done some crazy things already, he has a lot more to go."

Shorter shares the outside receiver spot with Grimes, and he also shares Grimes' take on Trask. "He's just a great guy," Shorter said. "I remember since the first day I met him and we just shook hands and he's just a great guy, all-around dude and I just can't wait to see what he's going to do, literally - like, each game that we played, even in practice some of the throws he makes. I just can't believe that he even makes the throws and fits it in those spots. But, he's been doing that literally since we started throwing over the summer. So, I'm just really happy that he's my quarterback." - Gainesville Sun

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QB Kyle Trask, Florida
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11/21/20 - Kyle Trask, rSr/2021, Florida, 6-5, 236 (DS#7 QB) + More +

Kyle Trask passed for 383 yards and three touchdowns, and No. 6 Florida rallied from an early deficit to beat Vanderbilt 38-17 on Saturday. The Gators (6-1, 6-1 Southeastern Conference) pulled into Vanderbilt Stadium an hour before kickoff already in uniform, hoping to avoid the visitors locker room as a coronavirus precaution. The Commodores (0-7, 0-7) opened the game by driving for a touchdown, but Trask helped get Florida on track for its seventh consecutive win in the series. Trask, a Heisman Trophy hopeful, completed 26 of 35 passes to nine different receivers. He is the first quarterback in SEC history to accrue 30 touchdown passes in seven games.

Vanderbilt drove 75 yards on 11 plays in the opening series, scoring on Ken Seals' 16-yard pass to Chris Pierce Jr. with 10:50 left in the first quarter. The Gators tied it less than three minutes later. Trask found wider receiver Kadarius Toney wide open around the 15-yard line, and Toney carried the ball in the end zone to complete a 27-yard play at 7:47. Vanderbilt countered with Pierson Cooke's 25-yard field goal on the next drive, and the Gators tied it at 10 when Evan McPherson kicked a 33-yarder at 4:13 of the second quarter. Trask threw a 34-yard TD pass to Trevon Grimes with 49 seconds left until halftime for a 17-10 lead, and Dameon Price rushed in from a yard out for a 24-10 advantage early in the second half. With 2:55 left in the third, Trask found tight end Kemore Gamble in the back of the end zone for a 2-yard touchdown pass. - Florida/AP College Football

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QB Kyle Trask, Florida
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11/16/20 - Kyle Trask, rSr/2021, Florida, 6-5, 236 (DS#7 QB) + More +

NOV 16 SEC CO-OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Kyle Trask, QB, Florida,...Trask was 23-of-29 for 356 yards passing and six touchdown passes in Florida's 63-35 win over Arkansas on Saturday...Trask also committed zero turnovers against a defense which entered the game with the No. 3 turnover margin (+8) and had the No. 24 passing efficiency defense in the country...The Trask-led Florida offense totaled 593 yards and averaged 7.1 yards per play against the Razorbacks, who entered the game allowing 401.5 yards per game on average.

Under the direction of Trask, Florida posted its first 60-point game against an SEC opponent since a 63-5 win over Kentucky on Oct. 25, 2008...Trask became the seventh quarterback in SEC history to throw for six passing touchdowns multiple times in a career, and the fifth to do it multiple times in the same season...Trask also joined Tim Tebow (2007, 2008) and Danny Wuerffel (1995, 1996) as the only Gators in history to post multiple seasons of 25 passing touchdowns. With six touchdown passes tonight, Kyle Trask broke Tua Tagovailoa's SEC record for the most touchdown passes through the first six games of a season (Tua had 27 in the first six games of 2019). - SEC Football

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QB Kyle Trask, Florida
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