Listen Now! The 2024 Florida Gators spring football game has arrived. Here’s what to know

If Florida Gators fans think the 2020s have been rough for the football team, then they didn’t see what happened with the team in the 1940s.

The Gators didn’t have a winning season. They had two 5-5 seasons, and the rest were sub.-500 efforts. Heck, they didn’t even field a team in 1943.

I imagine the War had something to do with that.

So far this decade, the Gators only have one winning season, and that was in 2020 when they were 8-4. They’ve had three losing seasons since (6-7, 6-7, 5-7).

They didn’t make a bowl game in 2023.

Yet, when it comes to the Gators, hope springs eternal.

And it all start with the Orange and Blue Spring Game on Saturday, April 13, in The Swamp.

After much anticipation, Gators fans will get a glimpse of what they hope will be another quarterback savior – DJ Lagway.

Florida Gators quarterback DJ Lagway (2) and Florida Gators quarterback Graham Mertz (15) looks to throw during spring football practice at Heavener Football Complex at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. [Matt Pendleton/Gainesville Sun]

The five-star prospect is still raw and isn’t expected to start right away — the job still remains with sixth-year player Graham Mertz — but you can be sure if the Gators struggle early in 2024, the calls will get louder for Lagway to get in the game.

The calls also could get louder against head coach Billy Napier if the Gators struggle.

The third-year coach has been trying to rebuild the struggling program, but the challenges of the transfer portal and NIL have made things tricky.

On this week’s “The *State* of Florida Sports Podcast,” Gainesville Sun columnist David Whitley is the guest, and he has plenty to say about this year’s squad.

He’ll tell us what we should be watching for during this weekend’s Orange and Blue game.

“It’s hard to…

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Author : The Gainesville Sun

Publish date : 2024-04-08 18:21:26

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