The Florida football team is coming off another disappointing season. The Gators finished just 5-7 in Billy Napier’s second season as head coach, so the pressure is on to win more games this upcoming season.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- The winds of attrition breezed through The Swamp again this winter, with Florida making 30 scholarship roster additions and 21 subtractions via the NCAA transfer portal, along with several departing players heading toward the NFL Draft or their post-football careers.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Gators quarterback Graham Mertz on Thursday announced via Instagram that he will return for his redshirt senior campaign and a second season with Florida.
In an unexpected turn of events, former Wisconsin Badger Graham Mertz, now a Florida Gator, has suffered a major setback. The promising quarterback's season came to a halt this past Saturday when the Gators faced off against Missouri.
Florida QB Graham Mertz took it to the Missouri defense as a runner, but unfortunately ended up hurt.
While the Wisconsin Badgers took the field today against the No. 3 ranked Ohio State and had their own problems to deal with, so did a former quarterback in Graham Mertz.
The Pac-12 takes center stage again this week. Meanwhile, Ohio State wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. looks to solidify his Heisman campaign, and Oklahoma and Georgia take on a pair of hungry underdogs who would love nothing more than to throw a wrench into their seasons.
Graham Mertz and Florida will find out if they've hit their stride Saturday when the Gators and No. 1 Georgia square off in Jacksonville, Fla. Mertz has the attention of the Bulldogs after posting huge numbers in each of the past two games to climb to third in the nation in completion percentage at 76.2 percent.
It’s no secret that the Wisconsin Badgers may have gotten a swing and a miss when former quarterback Graham Mertz transferred out of the program to the Florida Gators.
Here's a breakdown of all the winners and losers to emerge from the chaos of Week 7 in college football.
Many Wisconsin Badgers fans were happy to see quarterback Graham Mertz enter the transfer portal in the offseason. The former Badgers quarterback never quite reached his potential in Madison and the offense often struggled with him under center.
There’s been a lot of scuttlebutt around Wisconsin Badgers Twitter comparing Tanner Mordecai to Graham Mertz. I want to say this is beyond dumb to do…unequivocally.
A former Wisconsin Badgers quarterback is putting up some great numbers after his transfer from the Big Ten school to the Florida Gators in the SEC. Graham Mertz has led the Florida Gators to a 3-1 record, bringing them into the AP Top 25 heading into the win against the Charlotte 49ers on Saturday.
The former starting quarterback for the Wisconsin Badgers, Graham Mertz, led the Florida Gators to a win on Saturday. Mertz, a redshirt junior, led the charge for the Gators with a 79.2 completion percentage and a 91.6 QB rating.
Former Wisconsin Badgers quarterback Graham Mertz made the decision to transfer from the Badgers to the Florida Gators right before the bowl game in 2022.
Former Wisconsin Badgers quarterback Graham Mertz is now playing for the Florida Gators. A former five-star recruit, Mertz never really found a groove in Wisconsin’s run-heavy offense.
The Florida Gators named their starting quarterback for Week 1,
After starting at quarterback for Wisconsin for the past three seasons, Graham Mertz announced Sunday he is entering the transfer portal. Mertz has two years of NCAA eligibility remaining, counting the extra year given to athletes who played amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Graham Mertz threw a touchdown pass and ran for the winning touchdown with 35 seconds remaining as Wisconsin defeated Nebraska 15-14 in a Big Ten game Saturday in Lincoln, Neb.
Last season did not necessarily go as planned for Graham Mertz. The former four-star recruit entered 2021 as a second-year starter at Wisconsin with hopes of elevating the offense and helping guide them to a Big Ten West title.
Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst commented that tests on the quarterback suggested he could be good to go at Illinois.
Wisconsin quarterback Graham Mertz had to be taken to the injury tent after a big hit during the third quarter of Saturday’s game against Michigan.
Mertz remains in the coronavirus protocol as of Wednesday afternoon but could be available to play at Michigan if he's cleared by the team's sports medicine staff.
ESPN's Tom VanHaaren reported early Thursday evening that the Wisconsin Badgers football program is up to 16 active COVID-19 cases after two additional staff members and one student-athlete tested positive. Wisconsin has temporarily paused all football activities due to the virus outbreak.
If the big boys slip up, there are a lot of schools who have the talent to sneak up and take one of those spots.
No Wisconsin players tested positive before Friday's blowout win over the Illinois Fighting Illini, during which Mertz set a Wisconsin record for single-game completion percentage (95.2) and matched a school mark for touchdown passes in a contest (five).
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