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The reunion is finally here. Brenton Cox, formerly at Georgia, is eligible to suit up for the Gators this season. Cox has emerged as a leader of Florida's defense, meeting his potential that he possessed during his lone season in Athens. Cox has 21 tackles, nine quarterback hurries and a sack this season. - Macon Telegraph

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DE Brenton Cox Jr., Florida
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11/04/20 - Zachary Carter, rSr/2022, Florida, 6-4, 282 (DS#10 DT) + More +

Florida coach Dan Mullen has been issued a reprimand and fined $25,000 by the SEC for his role in the melee between UF and Missouri players and coaches at the end of the first half of Saturday night's game in The Swamp. Defensive linemen Zachary Carter and Antwuan Powell, who we ejected from the game, have been suspended from the first half of the Gators' game with Georgia in Jacksonville on Saturday. "I respect the decision from the conference office," Mullen said Monday. "As the head coach, it is my responsibility to defuse these types of situations, and I didn't live up to that standard."

Mullen ignited the situation when he sprinted onto the field to confront the officials after quarterback Kyle Trask took a late, high hit attempting to throw a Hail Mary pass on the final play of the half and no flag was thrown. Right behind their head coach, UF players charged toward the Missouri sideline, where there was pushing and shoving among multiple players from both teams and punches were thrown. The teams were separated after a few minutes and went to their respective locker rooms. There were no further incidents in the second half. Carter and Powell were ejected for fighting, while Missouri outside linebacker Tre Williams was tossed for a flagrant unsportsmanlike foul. Carter is a starter and Powell is a true freshman who likely will be redshirted this season. - Gainesville Sun

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DT Zachary Carter, Florida
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11/04/20 - Kadarius Toney, Sr/2021, Florida, 6-0, 193 (DS#4 WR) + More +

Toney continues to establish himself as one of the SEC's top playmakers and as potentially the second coming of a former dynamic playmaker from West Virginia - Tavon Austin. Toney has scored in each of Florida's first four games, including three touchdowns - two receiving and one rushing - during the 41-17 win over Mizzou. - Birmingham News

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WR Kadarius Toney, Florida
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10/31/20 - Kadarius Toney, Sr/2021, Florida, 6-0, 193 (DS#4 WR) + More +

Florida coach Dan Mullen showed up after his team's testy victory against Missouri dressed as Darth Vader. Mullen insisted it was the only Halloween costume in the facility, not a conscious decision to play a villain. Nonetheless, it may have been the perfect role given Mullen's past few weeks. Kadarius Toney scored three times, Kyle Trask became the first player in school history with four touchdown passes in four consecutive games and the 10th-ranked Gators returned from a three-week layoff to handle Missouri 41-17 on Saturday night in the Swamp. The Gators' easiest win of the season came after a COVID-19 outbreak forced the Southeastern Conference to postpone two of their games. It also included a benches-clearing scuffle at halftime that involved both coaches. Several players threw punches during the melee, but just three were ejected. The conference could hand down more punishments following a review. It could be costly for Florida (3-1), which plays rival and fifth-ranked Georgia next week in nearby Jacksonville. The game is likely to decide the winner of the East Division. - Florida/AP College Football

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WR Kadarius Toney, Florida
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10/29/20 - Graham Mertz, rSr/2025, Florida, 6-3, 212 (DS#19 QB) + More +

A COVID-19 outbreak has put the University of Wisconsin football season on hold after just one game. The Badgers will pause football activities for at least seven days after a dozen people in the program, including coach Paul Chryst and starting quarterback Graham Mertz, tested positive for COVID-19 in the past five days. The Badgers, ranked No. 9 in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, decided they cannot play their scheduled game Saturday at Nebraska. A Big Ten Conference spokesman said the game will not count toward either team's record. The 12 people who tested positive include six players and six staff members. The program is in the process of providing hotel rooms for seven days in order to separate players who live together to combat the virus' spread. UW athletic director Barry Alvarez said the program does not know what caused the outbreak. Additional test results are pending, meaning there are potentially more cases within the program. - Wisconsin State Journal

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QB Graham Mertz, Florida
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10/28/20 - Kyle Trask, rSr/2021, Florida, 6-5, 236 (DS#7 QB) + More +

During his career, whenever he's been called on, he's been ready to take over and lead the offense. "Just his preparation," UF coach Dan Mullen said. "He constantly prepares so he is ready to go when he gets his opportunity to get on the field. He's done that throughout his whole career, so that when you put him out there, he's been prepared for his opportunity and we expect the same. "He prepared when he wasn't a starter to be ready to go to get on the field. When he got his opportunities he showed that he was ready to go do that."

Mullen said nothing has changed since Trask took over as the starter at Kentucky last season. He's ready. Always ready. Mullen has used Trask's approach to every practice, every game, as an example to the other players. "When he became the starter, he did a great job of preparing for each game so that when Saturday comes he's ready to go play at an extremely high level and give everything that he has on the field," Mullen said. "We talk about that, that we can control our effort and our preparation and we can control our attitude, all the little things we can control. He does a great job of controlling what he can control so he's prepared to go play Saturday." - Gainesville Sun

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QB Kyle Trask, Florida
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10/27/20 - Graham Mertz, rSr/2025, Florida, 6-3, 212 (DS#19 QB) + More +

No. 9 Wisconsin has canceled its game at Nebraska on Saturday and paused all team activities for at least seven days after a dozen people within the program including coach Paul Chryst tested positive for COVID-19. School officials said athletic director Barry Alvarez and chancellor Rebecca Blank made the decision in consultation with Big Ten officials. The game with Nebraska won't be rescheduled. Wisconsin said six players and six staff members had tested positive over the last five days. The announcement followed reports that starting quarterback Graham Mertz had tested positive twice – which would require him to sit out at least 21 days under Big Ten protocols - and that backup quarterback Chase Wolf had tested positive at least once. - AP College Football

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QB Graham Mertz, Florida
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10/26/20 - Graham Mertz, rSr/2025, Florida, 6-3, 212 (DS#19 QB) + More +

OCT 26 BIG TEN CO-OFFENSIVE PLAYER AND FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK: Graham Mertz, Wisconsin, Fr., QB, Overland Park, Kan./Blue Valley North,...Became the first Wisconsin freshman to start a season opener at quarterback since 1978, going 20-for-21 for 248 yards and five touchdowns...Broke the school record for single-game completion percentage (.952), while tying the school marks with five touchdown passes and 17 consecutive completions...Recorded the third-highest single-game passing yards by a Wisconsin freshman, trailing Darrell Bevell (274 vs. Northwestern in 1992) and Joel Stave (254 vs. Illinois in 2012)...Earns his first career Big Ten weekly awards...Last Wisconsin Offensive Player of the Week: Jonathan Taylor (Nov. 18, 2019)...Last Wisconsin Freshman of the Week: Jonathan Taylor (Nov. 27, 2017). - Big Ten Football

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QB Graham Mertz, Florida
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10/25/20 - Graham Mertz, rSr/2025, Florida, 6-3, 212 (DS#19 QB) + More +

Wisconsin says nobody who played in the season opener Friday night tested positive for COVID-19 or reported having any symptoms beforehand, amid weekend reports that quarterback Graham Mertz has tested positive. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and Wisconsin State Journal reported Mertz would be taking a second test to determine whether his first test was a false positive. The Journal-Sentinel reported Mertz's positive test came Saturday, one day after the Badgers' 45-7 home victory over Illinois. School officials say they won't release any testing information regarding individual athletes due to privacy concerns. Big Ten protocols say that athletes who test positive through point-of-contact daily testing must take a polymerase chain reaction test to confirm the first result. If that second test confirms a positive result, the athlete can't play again for at least 21 days. The ninth-ranked Badgers visit Nebraska, host Purdue and travel to No. 13 Michigan in their next three games. - AP College Football

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QB Graham Mertz, Florida
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10/23/20 - Graham Mertz, rSr/2025, Florida, 6-3, 212 (DS#19 QB) + More +

Graham Mertz threw five touchdown passes to match the Wisconsin record in a commanding first career start and the No. 14 Badgers beat Illinois 45-7 on Friday night to open the pandemic-delayed Big Ten football season. Mertz set a school record for completion percentage on 20-of-21 passing, finishing with 248 yards. The lone incompletion was a pass that running back Garrett Groshek dropped midway through the third quarter. The redshirt freshman quarterback delivered a buzzworthy performance during the Big Ten’s long-awaited opening night. The Big Ten announced Aug. 11 that it would postpone all fall sports until the spring due to the coronavirus pandemic, then reversed itself Sept. 16 by saying it would begin the season in mid-October.

While most other conferences began playing last month in front of partially filled stadiums, Wisconsin had cutouts in the stands and piped-in crowd noise Friday as it began its nine-game schedule. But his prime-time outburst still earned raves on social media from a wide range of players including Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and former Wisconsin star J.J. Watt. Mertz became the first-team quarterback after returning starter Jack Coan underwent foot surgery on Oct. 7, leaving him out indefinitely. He wasted no time making the most of his opportunity. The only previous Wisconsin quarterbacks to throw five touchdown passes in a game are Darrell Bevell against Nevada in 1993 and Jim Sorgi against Michigan State in 2003. Mertz was 14 of 14 for 190 yards and four touchdowns in the first half alone as Wisconsin built a 28-7 halftime lead. Three of his five touchdown passes went to tight end Jake Ferguson, who had seven catches for 72 yards. - AP College/Wisconsin Football

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QB Graham Mertz, Florida
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10/15/20 - Kyle Trask, rSr/2021, Florida, 6-5, 236 (DS#7 QB) + More +

UF players say they win or lose as a team. That there is no finger-pointing following the loss at Texas A&M on Saturday. Florida quarterback Kyle Trask said the Gators aren't going to be playing the blame game in the wake of Saturday's loss to Texas A&M, a game where the defense melted down and the offense had a turnover that led to the winning field goal on the last play of the game. "The last thing you want to do is finger point," Trask said Monday. "You're still on the same team. The game on Saturday's was a game that we should have won. Just a few plays decided it. If we just play clean football there at the end, we're 3-0 right now. "We're just going to reflect on the game and how we can keep improving. It's just going to make us stronger and better."

Trask said there's no feeling among the offensive players that the Gators need to score on every possession in order to win games. "If that's how you feel, you end up pointing fingers at each other and that's not how our team is," he said. "It was either a win or a loss in the column as a team, together. "Our goal is to score on every single drive. It doesn't have anything to do with how (our defense) is performing. We don't want to just play good enough to win. We want to play to our standards. If we score on every single drive, we'll beat anybody we play." - Gainesville Sun

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QB Kyle Trask, Florida
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10/13/20 - Jeremiah Moon, rSr/2022, Florida, 6-5, 247 (DS#28 OLB) + More +

Florida's offense is potent enough to win championships. Its defense is porous enough to lose every game. The 10th-ranked Gators found out how little margin for error they have in last week's 41-38 loss at Texas A&M. With a defense giving up nearly 500 yards and five touchdowns a game, Florida's preseason title hopes are in jeopardy. Something will need to change for Florida to have a shot at running the table and winning the East Division for the first time since 2016. That was the goal coming into a season drastically altered because of COVID-19 concerns. The Gators missed out on spring practice and had just two days that included live tackling drills between the Orange Bowl in January and the opener last month. Rust was a convenient excuse for Week 1 woes, but the issues have now become a trend. "We got to get off the field, we got to wrap up, we got to tackle and we got to get to the quarterback and we got to cover," Moon said. "It's simple, and we're not doing that right now..."At the end of the day, it's up to that person to make their mind up if they want to be great. And that's all it is." - AP College Football

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OLB Jeremiah Moon, Florida
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10/09/20 - Amari Burney, rSr/2023, Florida, 6-2, 230 (DS#22 OLB) + More +

Amari Burney is playing his third different position in three years at Florida, so if he looks a little confused or out of position at times at inside linebacker, that's probably to be expected. But he doesn't see it that way. "I like (inside linebacker), but I've got to step it up," Burney said. "These past two weeks have been unacceptable for me, personally. Just talking with the coaches, my parents, watching film, it's been unacceptable on my part just being a starter and not doing my job. "Just the plays I'm leaving on the field, not playing the plays that I want to make. Doing the wrong things on the field, not being physical, not getting off blocks, things like that."

Burney has missed some tackles, missed some assignments in the first two games, but he's not using the fact that he's been moved to a new position yet again as an excuse. "It's different," he said. "No excuses, though. This is mainly my first year actually being out there on the field for first and second down, I usually come in on third down. But nothing new, just got to get more physical, get more aggressive. Learn from Ventrell (Miller), learn from James (Houston), people that have been playing the position for all their life, and get better every week." Burney started his UF career at safety, but was quickly moved to the star/nickel position during his freshman season. - Gainesville Sun

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OLB Amari Burney, Florida
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10/07/20 - Kyle Trask, rSr/2021, Florida, 6-5, 236 (DS#7 QB) + More +

Quarterback Kyle Trask had four more touchdown passes against South Carolina, which is a good thing. He also had two turnovers - a fumble and an interception - and that's not a good thing. Those turnovers have caught his attention. "Definitely, I can't put the ball on the ground. It's unacceptable. Just eliminating those, you know, those little things, those little small plays, turnovers, things like that. Just to play as consistent as I possibly can, it's just my goal every week." Both of his turnovers were turned into touchdowns by the Gamecocks. - Gainesville Sun

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QB Kyle Trask, Florida
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10/07/20 - Zachary Carter, rSr/2022, Florida, 6-4, 282 (DS#10 DT) + More +

Junior defensive tackle Zachary Carter was named the SEC defensive lineman of the week for his performance in the Gators' 38-24 victory over South Carolina. A dominant force in the middle, Carter had eight tackles (tying for the team lead), 1.5 sacks and two quarterback hurries against the Gamecocks. Carter was a four-star defensive end coming out of high school who now has settled in at defensive tackle, although he can still play end if needed. "He's a guy that has bought into our program more or as much as any of the d-linemen that we've had since we've been here in what we expect from him, with the effort from him we expect to play, and how we expect him to do it," Mullen said. "He's done an amazing job of buying into all of that. Part of that is you look at self-evaluation.

"You've seen him look at what his strengths are and then play to his strengths and buy into his strengths, and you see the success he's having now. He's not going to be a big 340-pound inside guy, but he's really quick. He's big enough to be quick inside, and he's not this twitch edge guy, but he's a big edge guy that has athletic ability. So, that helps him create those different matchups where we can move him around on the field." - Gainesville Sun

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DT Zachary Carter, Florida
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