Florida rolls Campbell 52-3 behind the best special teams night in program history. Vernell Brown III returns two punts for touchdowns, sets a Florida record with 219 punt return yards, and adds a receiving score. Jadan Baugh runs for 136 and his third straight 100-yard game. Aaron Philo goes 16-of-21. And then the real question: is any of it going to matter at Auburn on Saturday?

THE NUMBERS
Florida 52, Campbell 3 - Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Sept. 12, 2026
Vernell Brown III: 4 PR, 219 yds, 2 TD, plus a 14-yard receiving TD (262 all-purpose)
Jadan Baugh: 14 car, 136 yds, 2 TD (long 75)
Aaron Philo: 16/21, 242 yds, 2 TD, plus a rushing score
Dallas Wilson: 5 rec, 104 yds, TD
Team: 514 total yards to Campbell's 210

Next up: Florida at Auburn, Saturday Sept. 19, 7:00 p.m. ET

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Florida legend and 1996 Heisman Trophy winner Danny Wuerffel joins Game Day Eve on Stadium and Gale to preview the Gators vs. Campbell in The Swamp.

We get Danny's take on the first week of the Jon Sumrall era, Aaron Philo's three-touchdown debut, Jadan Baugh's 160-yard opener, and what this defense has to clean up before SEC play starts at Auburn. Thirty years after the 1996 national title team, Danny tells us what stands out about this group and what a week like this looked like under Coach Spurrier.

Then we run our Over/Under segment on Gators vs. Campbell and the rest of the season, and make our college football picks of the week, including No. 1 Ohio State at No. 4 Texas, Oklahoma at Michigan, Alabama at Kentucky, and Tennessee at Georgia Tech.

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Florida opened the Jon Sumrall era with a 66-21 blowout of Florida Atlantic in front of a sold-out Swamp, and the offense was every bit as good as advertised. Aaron Philo went 16 of 21 for 275 yards and three touchdowns in his first start, Jadan Baugh ran for 160 yards and three scores on just 14 carries, and Vernell Brown III went for 117 yards and the first touchdown of his career. Florida piled up 624 total yards, went 8-for-8 in the red zone, and scored on 10 of 11 drives.

But there is a real conversation to be had about the other side of the ball. FAU moved it for 396 yards, converted 11 of 22 third downs, and Caden Veltkamp threw it 53 times against a Gators pass rush that barely got home. We get into all of it.

On this episode we break down:

Aaron Philo's debut and what it means for the season
Jadan Baugh crossing 2,000 career rushing yards
Buster Faulkner's offense and the red zone efficiency
The defensive concerns nobody wants to bring up after a 45-point win
Patrick Durkin's 53-yard field goal and the special teams units
Sumrall's sideline energy and what changed in The Swamp
Looking ahead to Campbell and then Auburn on the road

Florida's 66 points were the most in a season opener since the 1994 team hung 70 on New Mexico State under Steve Spurrier.

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Game Day Eve is back and we brought a Gator legend with us. Former Florida cornerback and Detroit Lions second-round pick Teez Tabor joins the show to break down Jon Sumrall's first game in The Swamp.

Florida opens the Sumrall era Saturday night against Zach Kittley's FAU Owls. The Gators are 26.5-point favorites with a total of 59.5, the quarterback job is Aaron Philo's, and FAU brings the fastest tempo offense in the country to Gainesville. We give you our picks, run through the over/unders, and break down what actually decides this game.

Kickoff: Saturday, September 5 at 7:45 p.m. ET on SEC Network from Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.

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Eric Fawcett (Gator Country, Basket Under Florida) and Neil W. Blackmon (Saturday Down South, Basket Under Review) discuss all things Florida and SEC basketball. 

On this episode, FBH is joined by Florida assistant coach and, for all intents and purposes, general manager Jonathan Safir, one of the brightest young minds in college basketball.

Coach Safir discusses roster construction, why it's special to be a Gator, the incredible legacies of Alex Condon, Rueben Chinyelu, and Thomas Haugh, what's special about Todd Golden and much, much more. 

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Aaron Philo is QB1, Todd Golden gets paid, and game week is finally here. Dan, Nick de la Torre, and Jordan Scarlett break down Florida's quarterback decision, the secondary, the safeties, and special teams ahead of the Gators' season opener against FAU in The Swamp.

WHAT WE GET INTO:
- Aaron Philo named the starter — why it took this long, and what it means for the QB room
- The chemistry question: Philo vs. the receivers he hasn't thrown to since spring
- Where Philo stacks up in an SEC quarterback field that is thinner than people think
- Buster Faulkner's offense: running it between the tackles and getting weapons in space
- The Graham Mertz comp — and why "fine" might be exactly good enough
- Florida's cornerback room: Ben Hanks, Cormani McClain, Dijon Johnson, Jovari Flowers
- Star/nickel with Kaneil Clark, plus the safety room — Bryce Thornton, DJ Coleman, Cam Dooley, Alfonso Allen
- The standard of the No. 1 jersey at Florida: Reggie Nelson, Janoris Jenkins, Keiwan Ratliff
- Special teams: Patrick Durkin, Aussie punter Alec Clark, and why an elite holder matters
- Punt and kick return battle — VB3, Jaylen Lloyd, Justin Williams
- Running back logjam: Jadan Baugh's workload and Duke Clark's hamstring
- Todd Golden's 6-year, $49.5M extension, the bonus structure, and the buyout language
- Denzel Aberdeen's eligibility situation and where it stands
- Dan Mullen's UNLV debut and the Gators still on that staff
- Justin Gaethje speaking to the team, plus the best guest speakers of camp
- Felipe Franks surviving in the NFL on special teams
- The Daejon Love fraud story and a very unpopular take about it
- A camp health report that's better than anyone expected

Game Day Eve drops Friday with our FAU predictions and season picks.

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Thirteen days from kickoff and Florida still doesn't have a quarterback. Dan, Nick, Jordan and Corry break down everything out of Saturday's second fall scrimmage, run through a loaded week in Gators sports — and then sit down with one of the greatest defensive linemen to ever wear orange and blue.

📋 IN THIS EPISODE

Scrimmage No. 2 breakdown — the offense won most of the night, with Waltez Clark finding the end zone twice, plus scores from Evan Pryor and Jadan Baugh
The QB battle — Aaron Philo vs. Tramell Jones Jr. with the FAU opener two weeks out. Sumrall: "When we know, we'll know. Somebody has to take the first snap."
Red zone, red zone, red zone — why Sumrall has hammered this all camp, and what Buster Faulkner's Georgia Tech offense (32 TDs on 55 red zone trips) is supposed to fix
Wide-open tackle battle on the offensive line, and what's still unsettled up front
Florida misses the preseason AP Top 25 — No. 27 with 51 votes, 27th in the Coaches Poll, with nine SEC teams ranked ahead of them
Todd Golden takes a hit — the eligibility ruling that changes Florida's basketball roster math
2027 recruiting stays hot — the class sits Top 6 nationally, and five-star Maxwell Hiller isn't budging

🐊 OUR GUEST: KEVIN CARTER

Kevin Carter came to Gainesville out of Lincoln High School in Tallahassee and left as one of the most decorated defensive linemen in Florida history — three SEC championships under Steve Spurrier, consensus first-team All-American in 1994, 21.5 career sacks and 42.5 tackles for loss. The Rams took him sixth overall in 1995, and he played fourteen NFL seasons with St. Louis, Tennessee, Miami and Tampa Bay: 104.5 career sacks, two Pro Bowls, and a Super Bowl XXXIV ring after leading the entire league with 17 sacks in 1999. Today he's a studio analyst for CBS Sports and one of three former Gators on the 2027 College Football Hall of Fame ballot.

What we get into:

His honest read on Jon Sumrall — what translates from Troy and Tulane to the SEC, and what would make him nervous
Playing quarterback roulette in Week 1 — how a locker room actually handles an unsettled QB job
The Changing Nature of College Football and the NCAA
The Hall of Fame ballot — where the college half of his career ranks against the NFL half
The rings, and his father — the rule Lou Carter gave him about never appearing on TV without one

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Neil W. Blackmon (Saturday Down South, Basket Under Review) and Eric Fawcett (Saturday Down South, Basket Under Review) talk all things Florida and SEC basketball.

On this episode, what to watch as Florida opens fall workouts and practices. Will Florida's wealth of athletes allow them to play smaller? Does Alex Condon have the most room for growth of the returning seniors? Why it's time to buy Boogie Fland, and more.

Neil also breaks down the NCAA eligibility fights, Aberdeen's eligibility situation, and what's next for Class of 2022 athletes.

Finally, Eric and Neil offer their SEC tiers. Is Florida all alone at the top? Can Texas and Tennessee push the Gators for the SEC Championship? Is Kentucky back? This and more inside.

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Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin joins Stadium & Gale for a wide-ranging 50-minute conversation on the coaching search that landed Jon Sumrall, the NFL-style general manager structure built around Dave Caldwell, the $1.45 billion Ben Hill Griffin Stadium renovation, and where college athletics goes if Congress never acts.

Stricklin gets candid about why past Florida coaches were "asked to do the impossible," how Urban Meyer and Danny Wuerffel were actually used in the search (and why Nick wasn't), the living-room meeting in New Orleans where Sumrall and Caldwell met for the first time, staff creep across college football, donor fatigue in the NIL era, why private equity is "a really expensive loan," and whether the Colorado and Notre Dame games survive a nine-game SEC schedule.

Plus: Dan, Nick and Corry break down Saturday's scrimmage — the quarterback competition, Eric Singleton's speed, the offensive line concerns, safety depth, and what's realistic for this Florida team.

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Three uniform reveals in six days. One quarterback job still wide open. And zero answers out of Jon Sumrall.

Florida held its first fall scrimmage of camp this week and we're no closer to knowing who takes the first snap on Sept. 5. Aaron Philo or Tramell Jones Jr.? Sumrall isn't telling — and he's said out loud he might not tell anyone until five minutes before kickoff.

Joining us this week: former Florida Gators tight end C'yontai Lewis.

From Eutaw, Alabama — one of the poorest counties in the state — to Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Four years in the SEC under Jim McElwain and Dan Mullen. A suspension, two injuries, and a career that never quite broke through. Then draft weekend 2019 and a phone that never rang, followed by a tryout invite from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Today he's the tight ends coach at Miles College, telling a room full of young men exactly what nobody told him.

We get into what really changes for a player when the whole staff turns over, what he'd say to his 19-year-old self, why he chose an HBCU over chasing a Power Four job, and what he tells kids who'll never see a dime of NIL money.

Plus, the week in Gators sports (Aug. 10–16):

🏈 Sumrall's first scrimmage at the Swamp — and a QB battle with no timeline
👕 Three uniform drops in six days: the first all-blue combo in program history, two new road looks, and 1960s throwbacks honoring Steve Spurrier's 1966 Heisman season
🏆 Jadan Baugh named ESPN preseason first-team All-American — plus the Christmas Day visit to his grandmother's house that kept him in Gainesville, and the record no Gator running back has ever set
📊 The numbers: No. 20 in ESPN's final preseason SP+, No. 9 in the SEC, projected for seven wins against the ninth-toughest schedule in the country — and stuck in a tier ESPN named "It has to get better. Right? Right?!?"
🏅 Watch list season: LB Myles Graham (Butkus), P Alec Clark (Ray Guy)
🎾 Ben Shelton repeats in Montreal without dropping a set, joining Murray, Djokovic and Nadal as the only players this century to defend the Canada Masters
🏥 Graham Mertz feared out for the year with a torn ACL; Amari Burney signs with the Jaguars
⚽ Soccer falls 4-3 at UCF in the season opener

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Guest: C'yontai Lewis, Tight Ends Coach, Miles College
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