{"id":425687,"date":"2026-10-12T16:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/425687\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:46:14","slug":"florida-hc-jon-sumralls-own-words-could-lead-to-a-massive-change-for-the-gators-heading-into-saturday-vs-texas-longhorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/425687\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida HC Jon Sumrall’s own words could lead to a massive change for the Gators heading into Saturday vs. Texas Longhorns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jon Sumrall\u2019s words from spring practice could come to fruition, as the Gators look to try and get out of their funk.<\/p>\n

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Through four games, there was a lot of talk about the Florida Gators<\/a> potentially being contenders for the national championship. They were averaging 53.5 points per game and crushing opposing defenses thanks to a great running game led by Jadan Baugh.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, things have stalled out in a big way. They have scored just 36 points over the last two games, and got blown out by both the Missouri Tigers<\/a> and South Carolina Gamecocks<\/a>. The offense as a whole was rough from the top down, and it leads to some interesting questions. <\/p>\n

Jon Sumrall\u2019s own words could prompt a quarterback change<\/p>\n

When the Gators went through their quarterback battle with Aaron Philo and Tramell Jones Jr., head coach Jon Sumrall<\/a> was very non-committal to who would be the guy. He wanted to foster a true competition, and that would continue throughout the season. Why would he do that? Simple: continue to work on fielding the best team possible.<\/p>\n

When Sumrall was asked about the quarterback competition<\/a> in the heart of spring practice on March 24th, he made it clear that, just because you are named the starter, doesn\u2019t mean it will stay that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got a long way to go to identify who\u2019s going to be the trigger man that gets the opportunity to start game one. You start game one, and it doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re starting game two or three or four, or you got to play well if you even if you get to nod for game one and so on. But I think we\u2019re seeing certain things out of all the guys in that room,\u201d said Sumrall.<\/p>\n

Would Sumrall make a move? It\u2019s certainly a non-zero proposition for the Gators. The offensive line is playing very poor football, and Philo is running for his life. Unlike Jones, Philo isn\u2019t the most fleet of foot and is struggling to create with a lot of pressure.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t to say that it\u2019s all on Philo that the offense isn\u2019t clicking, but he\u2019s certainly not the solution right now. It wouldn\u2019t be shocking to see Sumrall make a change to try and jumpstart an offense that could use one. Jones has a live arm and the athleticism to create outside of structure, something the Gators\u2019 offense could use right now.<\/p>\n

Will a change be made? Probably not, but don\u2019t discount it.<\/p>\n

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After the first four games of the season had everyone thinking national championship, Jon Sumrall has a lot of questions to answer.<\/p>\n

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The Florida Gators have some major soul-searching to do after getting walloped by the South Carolina Gamecocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home \/ College Football \/ Florida Gators Jon Sumrall\u2019s words from spring practice could come to fruition, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51538,28,2530,6082,30,29,10712,26676],"class_list":["post-425687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-aaron-philo","tag-florida","tag-florida-gators","tag-florida-gators-football","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-jon-sumrall","tag-tramell-jones-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}