2025 Florida Football Postgame Notes
No. 5 Georgia 24, Florida 20
EverBank Stadium – Jacksonville, Fla.

OFFENSIVE NOTES

QB DJ Lagway completed 15-of-24 passes for 166 yards, one touchdown and zero interceptions
for a 134.4 rating and 63.0% completion percentage.
Lagway has thrown a touchdown in 12 out of his last 15 contests.
Lagway ripped off a career-long rush of 26 yards in the third quarter.
RB Jadan Baugh carried 15 times for 72 yards and one rushing touchdown.
Baugh scored his fifth rushing touchdown of the season and the 12th of his career.
Baugh caught multiple passes for the sixth-straight game, marking the first-six games of his
career with multiple receptions.
o Baugh leads all SEC running backs with 22 catches for 132 yards.
WR Eugene Wilson III set season highs in receptions (nine) and receiving yards (121) en route to
his second-career, 100-yard receiving performance.
o In two-career, Florida-Georgia games (2023 & 2025), Wilson III has totaled 20 catches,
196 yards and two touchdown receptions.
Wilson III is the first Florida player with 100 receiving yards vs. Georgia since Xzavier Henderson
in 2022, and the 15th Gator all-time to do so against the Bulldogs.
Wilson III more than doubled his total receiving yards on the season, entering with 118 yards.
Wilson III’s third reception of the game resulted in a 40-yard touchdown on Florida’s one-play,
second drive, marking Wilson III’s 10th-career touchdown (all receiving).
o The one-play drive as Florida’s first since 2024 vs. Georgia.
Lagway’s 40-yard touchdown to Wilson III marked his 17th-career completion of 40-plus yards.
Wilson III’s fourth catch went for 28 yards, putting him at 80 yards for the game and setting his
2025 season-high in receiving yards prior to the end of the first quarter (previous: 60).
o Wilson III’s fourth reception also put him over 1,000 career receiving yards.
Lagway completed 7-of-11 passes for 101 yards and one touchdown for a 170.8 rating in the
first half while Baugh rushed six times for 41 yards (6.8 YPC).
In the first half, Wilson III had five catches for 87 yards.
Of Lagway’s 166 pass yards, 72.9% went to Wilson III (121).
TE Hayden Hansen made his 30th-consecutive start – the longest-active streak for a Gator.
Florida has registered a passing touchdown in six of eight games this season and 35 of 45
contests since the start of 2022.
Florida has punched in a rushing score in five of eight games this season and 37 of 45 contests
since the start of 2022.
Lagway has posted a QB rating above 130.0 in 11 of his last 14 games.
The Gators have rushed for over 100 yards in five of eight games this season and 36 of 45
contests since the start of 2022.

DEFENSIVE NOTES

Through eight games, the Florida defense has allowed a total of 155 offensive points (safety vs.
USF and pick-six at LSU) for an average of 19.4 points per game.
Florida totaled two sacks while not surrendering a sack on offense (two TFLs allowed).
After allowing an opening drive touchdown to Georgia, the Gators rebounded to force a three-
and-out and turnover on the Bulldogs’ second and third drives, respectively.

o Florida then forced a punt on Georgia’s fourth and fifth drives (both in 2Q).
o Outside of the 75-yard opening drive, Florida held Georgia to 122 first-half yards.

DB Devin Moore intercepted QB Gunner Stockton on UGA’s third drive, marking his second
interception of the season and the fifth of his career.
The Gators have picked off opposing quarterbacks in six-straight games.
Florida has recorded a takeaway in six-straight games and 19 of its last 21 matchups.
o The Gators have at least one takeaway in 35 of 45 games since the start of 2022.
DL Michai Boireau recorded his second sack of the season for UF’s first of the game in the
second quarter.
DB Sharif Denson logged 1.0 tackle for loss and four tackles.
S Bryce Thornton added 1.0 tackle for loss and six tackles.
EDGE George Gumbs Jr. had a third-down sack for a loss of five yards to force a UGA punt in the
fourth quarter. He also finished with the second-most tackles on the team (nine).
S Jordan Castell led Florida with 11 tackles, which tied his career high.
Florida has allowed just one 300-yard passer this season (season high: 324 vs. Mississippi State).
SPECIAL TEAMS NOTES
K Trey Smack’s 54-yard field goal in the fourth quarter broke the program record for most 50-
yard field goals made in a career (nine).
Smack is 22-for-30 in his career from 40-plus yards and 9-for-12 from 50-plus yards.
Smack went 2-for-2 on field goal attempts, connecting from 22 and 54 yards.
Smack went 2-for-2 on extra point attempts to remain perfect in his career (92 of 92).
With two field goals in today’s game, Smack has made 13-straight since missing three kicks in
the season opener.
P Tommy Doman punted five times for an average of 47.8 yards, highlighted by a long of 65,
one of 50-plus yards and two inside the 20-yard line.
EXPLOSIVE PLAYS (5)
WR Eugene Wilson III (from QB DJ Lagway): 40-yard touchdown reception, first quarter
WR Eugene Wilson III (from Lagway): 28-yard reception, first quarter
RB Jadan Baugh: 22-yard rush, second quarter
QB DJ Lagway: 26-yard rush, third quarter (career long)
WR Eugene Wilson III (from Lagway): 20-yard reception, third quarter

SERIES UPDATES

Florida and Georgia faced off for the 103rd time in the 93rd meeting between the two teams in
Jacksonville, including the last before the annual game travels to Atlanta (2026) and Tampa
(2027) due to stadium renovations.
Florida falls to 44-57-2 all-time against the Bulldogs and 41-51-1 in Jacksonville matchups.
Georgia extended their five-game winning streak in the series.
The Gators fall to 22-14 in the series since 1990.
Florida interim head coaches have now gone a combined 14-10 and 4-3 in their debut games.
No. 5 Georgia was Florida’s fifth top-10 and fourth top-five opponent in just eight games this
season, the latter being a single-season, program record.
THE SCORING STREAK
Florida has scored in 469 consecutive games — an NCAA record and 55 games longer than any
other college football team in history.
o Florida broke Michigan’s record of 365 games (1984-2014) vs. LSU on Oct. 7, 2017.
o The last time Florida was shut out was on Oct. 29, 1988, vs. Auburn (L, 16-0).

GAME DETAILS

Florida Game Captains: #13 RB Jadan Baugh, #94 EDGE Tyreak Sapp, #66 C Jake Slaughter, #18
S Bryce Thornton
Coin Toss: Florida won the toss and deferred; Georgia received in the north endzone.
Attendance: 76,131

University of Florida Football
Media Conference
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Gainesville, Florida, USA
Coach Billy Gonzales
Press Conference

Georgia 24 Florida 20
BILLY GONZALES: First and foremost, I thought the
players played extremely hard. Thought they fought.
Proud of them. They did not quit. I told you guys before
they do not have quit in their DNA.
Obviously we’re not here for moral victories. We came up
short and we came here to win. So we have to continue to
work to get better.
Overall, this group of men in there, just had a chance to
talk with, I told them I respect them. I respect them for the
way they handled change over the past week. Respect
them how resilient they’ve been over the past week. I
respect how they’ve responded and taken ownership of this
team.
I’m extremely proud of them. But I know they’re hurting,
our staff is hurting, I’m hurting. We came here to win and
we fell short.
Gators expect a winner, so we have to get ready to get
back to work. Got four more games ready to roll we can
win. We have to continue to get better in all facets of the
game.
So open up for questions if you guys have some.
Q. The short yardage, fourth and one.
BILLY GONZALES: Yep.
Q. (No microphone.) Thought about doing that or feel
like the way you guys were running the football that
was the way to go?
BILLY GONZALES: No. No second thoughts. We will
take a look on film and see what happened. I haven’t had
a chance to look at it or review it yet. Obviously critical
play for us, but never going to second guess it.
Our guys, you know, we had to go for it. We had to go for

it. If you kick a field goal you’re still down. If they go down
and score you’re still down a point. We will take a look and
see where we went wrong, but no second guessing as far
as the play that was called.
Q. How would you assess DJ’s performance?
BILLY GONZALES: Yeah, I’m just kind of looking at him.
He was what, 15 of 24 today, 166 yards. They did a pretty
good job on defense. They do a good job. They threw
some pressures and played some two high, one high, man
coverage, zone coverage, behind it.
They do a good job. So obviously DJ put us in great
position to be in the game at the end of the game right
now. So it was a close game like I said. We didn’t have
the outcome that we wanted, but we would have never
been in that situation if we didn’t have DJ playing the way
he was.
Thought he did some really good things. He had a career
long in a run. He showed that I’m not afraid to run the ball.
He’s a willing runner, so absolutely.
Q. (Regarding Trey Wilson.) His involvement today.
Had some opportunities. Seemed like he was pretty
comfortable.
BILLY GONZALES: You know, we talked this week over —
earlier this week up in Gainesville just about the way he
worked over the last couple weeks. He’s going to be
rewarded based on how hard you work. Couple weeks
ago he wasn’t as active as as far as being able to get the
ball, but he busted his butt in the blocking game.
Obviously with a couple playmakers down, we had Aidan
down, VB down, and Dallas was down here in the middle
of the game. He stepped up. I’m looking at some of the
numbers. He had nine catches for 121 yards. He did a
great job. He’s got big play making ability.
So it was something we kind of saw throughout practice.
He did a great job in practice. Everything that he did today
he made in practice. That’s kind of the expectation, to be
able to make the plays you’re doing consistently in

practice.
Q. No moral victories but what do you think this team
showed in terms of talent, fight? Obviously going into
the future a lot of people are looking into the future.
BILLY GONZALES: I think this football team, again, they
have no quit. They’re a gritty team. Again, like I said, I’m
just super proud of how they have bonded together. I just
got done talking to them. Extremely hard. Extremely hard.
They want to win. This team is not here to play. They
want to win. I’m proud of them. I’m proud of them. Again,
like I said, we got to go back to work as a staff to put them
a better position so we can be successful and walk out of
here as a winner.
Q. (Regarding third down.) 2-11 today. What were the
issues?
BILLY GONZALES: You know, I was looking at some of
the stats. They did a really good job controlling the ball in
the first half. I’m looking at something, just the first three,
or three of them from the first half.
They did a great job controlling the ball and keeping the
ball, but our defense did a great job. Our defense didn’t
break. So we ended up getting the ball in minus 11, minus
9, minus 11, putting our backs up against the wall. You
can look at is as a negative or as a positive. I look at is as
both.
We got the ball deep with our backs against the wall but
our defense did a great job in keeping them out of the end
zone. So we have to be able to — we have to be better
than that and make sure that we’re better than 2-11 on
third down.
I do think they came back, our players came back, made
some adjustments from the first half to second half. Coach
Callaway, Coach O’Hara, and the offensive staff got
together. If I’m correct, the first drive we were three and
out, which is not what we want to be. Second drive was a
15-play drive and went down and scored.
So, again, hats off to our players for not giving in, not stop
fighting. I love them. We’re here for them, for our players.
But we have to continue to grind and put them in the
position where they can be successful.
Q. (Regarding defending Gunner Stockton.)
BILLY GONZALES: He’s a good football player. He’s a
good football player coming into the game. He was — had
a good game today. Again, our defense played really

good. I thought they did some — they moved around.
They challenged him a little bit. Got an interception. So
I’m excited about the way that guys played.
Again like I said, most importantly, I’m proud of this team,
the way they responded to change. It’s not easy. I’m just
super proud of this team the way they responded and the
resiliency, and they’re not going to quit. We’re going to get
ready and get back to work and get on the bus and go
back to Gainsville and start working again tomorrow and
get ready for the next week.
Q. Sturdivant slips behind the defense and looks like
the ball is slightly overthrown. How tough was that to
stomach?
BILLY GONZALES: It’s hard. We’re going to go back and
watch film. Probably going to be more than one of those
type of plays. But, yeah, it’s one of those things. Just
didn’t work the way we wanted it to work today.
We’ve got to continue — like I said, as a staff we got to
continue to grind, got to continue to work, got to put our
players in the best possible position. Again, these guys, I
keep giving praise to them. They have not quit and there is
no quit in them.
So if they’re going to fight for us we got to continue to fight.
If we play like this we’re going to be okay in the next four
games. We have to continue it and keep pressing and
keep getting better.
The seniors got to continue to lead. Young guys got to
continue to get better and we got to just keep fighting.
Q. Did you think it was a catch?
BILLY GONZALES: No.
Q. What can you say about the opportunities he gives
you?
BILLY GONZALES: He’s a weapon. Absolutely a weapon.
Soon as you get over on the plus side and you can —
Coach Houston, he’s usually in my ear talking and letting
us know where we are, where the kick line is.
Any time you got a guy that can put the ball in and get
points from distance, that’s gives us a security blanket.
So absolutely, but at the end of the day as a offense we
want to do a good job, create big plays. Big plays create
into points. We did a better job I think at some points with
penalties. We still had five of them.

We have to eliminate that process. Time of possession
was kind of flipped. First half they did an incredible job.
Kept the ball away from us. We didn’t keep the ball in our
hands. In the second half we came back and put some
drives together and it’s pretty close, 27-32, looking at some
of the stats.
But, again, we just got to bounce back. We have to keep
our players together. Again, that’s my whole mission, is to
keep the players together, keep fighting, keep them
together as a family. Again, I just thank them for that.
So…
Q. What’s the status of Dallas Wilson?
BILLY GONZALES: We’ll find out a little bit more.
Obviously he was injured so I’ll find out. Haven’t talked to
him or the training staff right now.
Q. (No microphone.)
BILLY GONZALES: You know, I think the — there was —
we moved the ball the way that we needed to as far as
getting aligned. Can you be faster? You can always be
faster. But at the same time there are looks that you want
to shift to try to get the defense in the proper look. We are
going to motion at times where we need to motion to try to
create picks. I shouldn’t say picks, but trying to create the
natural rubs.
Again, to try to put our players in advantageous situations
based on run plays.
Q. Given the context of everything the past week, the
changes, Top 5 team, rivalry, all that, I know it’s a loss,
but what kind of challenge was today? And for them to
have a lead in the fourth quarter, I know you don’t want
moral victories, but…
BILLY GONZALES: It was good. If you take a look from
the standpoint of what happened and what could have
happened, yeah, it’s great. But at the end of the day we
did not win. That’s all that matters. Okay?
So our players played hard. They fought. They know this.
There are no moral victories. You win or you lose. I told
them they’re going to have challenges in life. They’re
going to be dads, fathers, husbands someday. There will
be challenges in life that will affect them. How you respond
is the most important piece of it. How you handle
adversity, you control your emotion.
Nobody controls your emotion. You might not always
control the situation that you’re in, but you control your

emotion and how you respond. I just got talking to a young
man in there, a freshmen, and told him how important that
was. Continue to keep pushing and continue to keep
fighting.
I love them. I love our players. Our coaching staff loves
our players. We’re going to continue to fight for the
University of Florida. We believe in the program. Our
players believe in it. We’re going to continue to keep
fighting to get those wins.
Q. More verticality today. Talk about that.
BILLY GONZALES: You know, we talk just about giving
our players an opportunity to run a little bit. You know, the
thing in the pass game you always want to try to design
pass plays, whether their one high or two high beaters or
top down level beaters or progression reads. Okay?
It’s all dictated — what shot you’re going to be able to take
is going to be dictated by the defense they’re playing in the
back end. So are there times you wish you could take the
ball deeper? Absolutely. They might be playing zone
thirds. Are there times you can throw the ball with a
runner? Well, sometimes they’re playing zone or man.
So the defense dictates where you’re throwing the ball, but
offensively we try to have those answers based on the
coverages we’re given.
Q. DJ, kind of put the ball in his hands as a runner
more?
BILLY GONZALES: Absolutely. I think I talked a little bit
earlier about that. We’ve never been afraid of it. He’s
always been a willing runner. Any time you got a willing
runner I think that opens up. What it does is opens up and
makes the defense defend you a little bit.
So, yeah, when you can spread it out a little bit and they’re
going to play four man or five man box and you have an
extra hat, he becomes the runner. He’s big, strong, he’s
fast. He’s plenty fast.
Again, the only thing that matters is if you’re a willing
runner. If you area willing runner, then you’ll be productive
in the run game as a quarterback.
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University of Florida Football
Media Conference
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Gainesville, Florida, USA
Tyreak Sapp
Press Conference

Georgia 24 Florida 20
Q. I’m sure you’re thinking about the result of this
game, but could you take us through your perspective
of what Coach Gonzales took over and how that kind
of impacted you guys as you are going into this game,
kind of the motivator he’s been for you guys?
TYREAK SAPP: I feel like Coach just pushed us. He just
told us it’s a lot more football to play. We got a lot of things
to look forward to, and no matter what situation we’re in,
nothing is going to stop for us just because we got our
head coach fired or whatever the case may be.
Nothing stops. It’s either we get up off the ground and
keep going and keep fighting, keep scratching and clawing
or back down and lay down. I don’t think we got any
lay-down in anybody on this team.
So that was just the main focus.
Q. Tyreak, talk about just after the bye week and
everything that happened, what was the motivation for
the defense to come out and really play a pretty good
game? I mean, just what do you guys talk about
through the change as you prepared for Georgia?
TYREAK SAPP: Don’t get complacent. Don’t get tired of
doing the little things right. It can become easy when you
start to get a little praise or you start to get a little notoriety,
people start to notice you. You start to back off on certain
things. So just kept being accountable to each other and
showing up every day and letting each other know that no
matter what goes on, no matter if this helicopter crashes,
we still going to respond and be there for each other.
That was the main thing, just showing up every day and
working, because we still got a lot of things to work for and
to work towards. So it was — it was — obviously it’s
something that can affect you, but we just obviously being
leaders on this defense, having leaders, we told ourselves
don’t get complacent. Keep pushing and keep fighting and
keep scratching and clawing for those extra inches,

because it counts.
Q. So many close calls in the last four years. This
one. How does this one rate as far as the pain of
losing?
TYREAK SAPP: It stings. It stings. It hurts bad. It hurts
bad knowing this is my last time I’ll ever get to play in this
game in this stadium with my brothers. It hurts bad. It
hurts a lot.
You know, I try to do my best, to lay it all on the line, make
as many plays as possible, do the best I can for my
brothers. That’s what I tell them. I’m going to give them all
I got and I am going the best I can to put us in positions to
be victorious.
We came up short tonight. You know, we going to chalk it
up and talk about it and then we going to put it behind us.
But it hurts a lot. It does.
Q. This defense has s obviously played tremendously
hard all season long. Fourth quarter stops and stuff, is
that the next step for you guys? Because 2017 and
they go 82 yards?
TYREAK SAPP: Yeah. Yeah. It was — that was a long
last drive, but obviously we know we got those things to
correct. We are going to go in and look at the film and try
to get them corrected. Obviously not try to those things
corrected, get those things corrected and then just go on to
the next, kind of try to put this to bed and behind us.
Yeah, it hurts. Going to hurts for the night for sure.
Q. You mentioned hurt. Can you bring us through
what you guys talked about after the game, the
emotions in the locker room? How is Gonzales as a
messenger, too?
TYREAK SAPP: The main thing, especially for us as a
team, Coach just told us stay together. Don’t splinter from
each other. No matter what, we the only ones that can get
each other through these moments. Not the coaches or

anybody else. We as a team, the players.
So he just told us to do that. We just going to keep
working, keep chopping wood, keep waking up every day.
Obviously the sun is going to come up tomorrow. We are
going to wake up and get out of bed, hit that facility and
watch that film and get back to work.
That’s our job and duty. No matter what goes on in this
world, it’s not going to stop for us. Nothing is going to stop.
So we can’t sit around looking for sympathy from anybody.
We just got to go about it, put our head down working and
get back to it.
Q. How have you built mentally this year? Your
personal journey, you’re obviously have aspirations of
playing after this year.
TYREAK SAPP: Yeah.
Q. What has this year meant to you?
TYREAK SAPP: It’s meant a lot. Obviously not everything
that I wanted, but a lot of times in life you don’t get exactly
what you want. I don’t have that choice to chose that. I
have a choice to wake up every day to get after it and give
my brothers everything I got because I owe it to them. I
do.
Q. What did you think about the way you guys
defended Gunner tonight. Sacked him twice. He made
some plays, too.
TYREAK SAPP: Yeah, he’s obviously a great quarterback.
Dude, he can read coverages, he got a good head on his
shoulders. He can sling it through. Has a good arm. Has
a good arm. Trying to contain his legs because he is a
dual threat. He can hurt you with his legs.
Did that the best as we can and just try to limit him, in the
pass game get pressure on him and get him off the spot.
Just play the game, play the game, feel it out, feel him out.
Get our cleats in the ground and get set and just play ball.
So that was the plan. Nothing spectacular. Just what you
would do with any quarterback. You got to get after them
and get pressure on them and get them off the spot and
force them to throw bad balls.
Q. What to say about this group of guys that you
pushed Georgia the brink? That hasn’t happened in a
while with the Gators.
TYREAK SAPP: I think it says that we — a lot of teams and
a lot of times you can go into a game like this and a

situation like this and not play to win. So we weren’t
playing to compete with these guys. I don’t see them, this
team as being inferior to them. I don’t see them being
better than us. We go out to win. We don’t just go out to
play, to compete. It’s not like that.
Like we going to go out there and show you, too. There is
going to be a wake-up call when you play us. It’s not going
to be one of those games where you just roll your helmet
on the field because your team logo’s on the side of the
helmet you’re going to win. We don’t even think that of
ourselves. We reality check ourselves all the time.
Just because your helmet got that Gator logo on there and
it’s a rich history, you still have to go out there and play and
get it done. That’s the simple fact of the matter.
Q. I see obviously you’re wearing the Play For the
Patch shirt. What does that message mean for you?
TYREAK SAPP: Play for the Patch, play for the logo on
the and then honor the name on the back. That’s all it is.
We just owe it to each other to play for that Gator logo and
that Gator brand, and it’s obviously people that came
before us that have laid a foundation and a tradition, a
legacy and laid a standard for us, and so we just do our
best.
We do our best. Give everything we got to honor that.
Whatever it takes, we’ll do that to honor that. It’s the last
thing on our mind to let people down who have played here
and wore this uniform, to let them down and put out
something that’s not adequate and that’s not — that shows
that — that doesn’t show that we care.
So we do care about that and we do care. It’s more so the
patch than the name on the back. We just play for the
guys next to us.
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University of Florida Football
Media Conference
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Gainesville, Florida, USA
DJ Lagway
Press Conference

Georgia 24 Florida 20
Q. Hey, DJ, just how do you feel about your
performance tonight, just the offense with Ryan calling
plays?
DJ LAGWAY: Yeah, it was not good enough. We accident
execute when they needed to execute. We got to continue
to perfect some things and get better at some things.
Q. What did you feel like did you well and what were
some things about your performance that you weren’t
happy with?
DJ LAGWAY: Moved around a little bit better than I have
in the past. Legs are starting to get back under me;
starting to feel like myself again. You know, every single
day I’m continuing to get better. That’s the plus side.
Missed some throws. Could have hit J. Michael in a better
throw there. Throwing off one leg. Should have put a little
more on it.
You know, just not making the timely throws.
Q. What did you see on this play? Did you see
Michael come open late?
DJ LAGWAY: Yeah. He kind of came open late. He was
like the fourth progression on that. I was still going through
my progression. I was out of the pocket. Then right when I
kind of popped up and looked up I seen him. I was already
on my left foot. I just tried to get it out to him; should have
put a little more on it.
Q. Yeah, the fourth and one play that was — was that
kind of a read there and you just kind of gave it to DJ
and he went to the line? How critical that was play as
well as between that and Sturdivant in the fourth
quarter? Seemed like it was a game of inches.
DJ LAGWAY: Can you say that again?

Q. The fourth and one play, the short yardage play,
was that kind of a read there? Could you have kept it
or was it just a straight handoff to Jadan? How tough
was that as well between that and Sturdivant — you
guys coming up short on both…
DJ LAGWAY: Just a straight handoff. Tried to fake them
out. So, yeah.
Q. DJ, obviously a lot of upheaval and change going
on within this program. From your perspective what
sort of role have you been taking on in the locker room
to make sure this is a smooth transition into whatever
the regime becomes after this?
DJ LAGWAY: Yeah, for sure. What I preach to my guys is
every day we got to continue to work. It’s us against the
world. It’s all about us. We got to keep the team together.
That’s what I’m preach and what I am going to continue to
preach.
Q. You’re without Vernell and Aidan and you lose
Dallas midway through the game. How hard is that?
And also talk about Trey’s performance today and him
having kind of a big night for you guys.
DJ LAGWAY: Yeah, you know, something about our
receiving room, we got all types of guys, man. Lot of guys
stepped up tonight. I’m proud of those guys.
But it’s always hard not to have those athletes out there
with you on the field. A lot of guys stepped up tonight.
Proud of a lot of guys. We got to continue to get better and
continue to work. And we will.
Q. Trey specifically.
DJ LAGWAY: What about him?
Q. Just —
DJ LAGWAY: Just talk about him. Yeah, man, he’s a
baller. I already knew this. So it’s always great to get the
ball in his hands and let him do his thing. He had a great
night. Proud of him.

Q. In terms of just the way you guys kind of
responded, you’ve been asked a little bit, what do you
think it says about this group of players and —
obviously there is a future here with a lot of guys on
this team, what you’re going to bring to program?
DJ LAGWAY: Yeah, every single day going to continue to
fight our butts off every single game I can promise ya’ll
that. The guys that are going to step on the field are going
to give it all for each other and we are going to play for
each other each and every night.
Q. You mentioned getting your legs under you. Bring
us through battling lower body injuries and then
eventually coming into today and feeling confident.
DJ LAGWAY: Yeah, you know, I feel like just with a lot of
the training things, just trying to get my body back right,
you know, I feel like I’m in a good spot. It’s just taking it
day by day. Continue to do the right things on my end
routine-wise and eat the right things and take care of my
body is the main thing.
So, yeah.
Q. A lot more verticality in the pass game today.
DJ LAGWAY: Yeah.
Q. Was some of that because you’re healthier? Talk
about that please.
DJ LAGWAY: Yeah, my shoulder has been feeling great.
Feel like teams have been playing us differently. You
know, I’d say Georgia, they have the same similar style as
our defense. They play — kind of came from that same
branch. They kind of play — they want to stop the run with
two high. They will try to give you a little bit deeper stuff.
So I feel like when we took advantage of them we got on
top of them.
Q. DJ, four games left in the season. I don’t know if
it’s the furthest thing from your mind, but getting to a
bowl game at this point, where is that in the priorities?
DJ LAGWAY: Oh, yeah, most definitely. Getting to a bowl
game is everything right now. Most important is just taking
it one day at a time, continue to get better, man, and just
focusing on or process and our development.
Q. You mentioned teams playing you guys differently
on defense, attacking more of the run. Why do you
think that is?

DJ LAGWAY: They watch film. You know, they figure out
things and we got to make adjustments and I feel like we
have. Just got to execute better.
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GEORGIA FOOTBALL *Hard To Kill: Today marked the fourth time this year that the Bulldogs trailed in the 4th quarter of an SEC game, and they are 3-1 in those contests.
*Georgia (7-1, 5-1 SEC) has trailed early and late in five of its six SEC games with UK the only contest where the Bulldogs led wire-to-wire. Overall this
year, Georgia has rallied to beat No. 15 Tennessee in Knoxville, at Auburn, No. 5 Ole Miss in Athens and now UF in Jacksonville.
*Series History: With today’s 24-20 win, Georgia extended its winning streak in the series to five and now hold a 58-44-2 edge in the series
history. The Bulldogs are 8-2 against UF under Kirby Smart. The Bulldogs are now 38-3 in their past 41 SEC regular season games.
*Review Of the Offense: Georgia finished with 361 yards of offense (138-rushing, 223 passing) on 68 plays in its latest win over UF, a 24-20 decision.
Georgia came in averaging 33.7 points a game while UF allowed just 22.4.
*Georgia trailed 20-17 with 7:54 left today and responded with a go-ahead TD. The drive featured an 18-yard completion to Branch on 3rd-and-8 at the
UGA 20 and a 36-yard TD by Chauncey Bowens to cap an 82-yard drive on seven plays in 3:18 for a 24-20 lead with 4:36 left.
*With a 24-20 lead at 3:10 left in the contest, Georgia took over at the UF 31. On a 3rd-and-8, Bowens gained 14 to the UF 14.

*Tied at 10, Georgia’s first drive of the second half resulted in a five play, 74-yard TD drive. It featured a 42-yard catch by Zachariah Branch on a 3rd-
and-5 from the 31 and a 22-yard TD catch by senior Noah Thomas, his first as a Bulldog and 16th of his career.

Georgia and UF were tied at 10 at the half. The Bulldogs tallied 197 yards of offense on 42 plays with 20:03 time of possession.The Bulldogs got the
football to start the game and drove 75 yards in eight plays for a TD in 4:07. The drive featured a 3rd-and-7 conversion (12-yard completion to Dillon
Bell). Also on the drive, Stockton was 4-for-4 for 54 yards including an 8-yard TD to Bell, his first this season and 11th TD pass for Stockton. It marked
the first opening drive TD against UF in five years (Zamir White went 75 yards on the first play from scrimmage).
*On the third possession with the game tied at 7, UF intercepted a tipped pass at the UGA 38. It led to a FG and a 10-7 UF lead with 3:02 left in the first.
*Down 10-7 with 1:06 left in the first half, UGA’s final drive began at its 37, and it ended with a game-tying 39-yard field goal by Peyton Woodring.
*Redshirt junior QB Gunner Stockton finished 20-for-29 for 223 yards, 2 TDs and 1 INT plus 11 yards rushing. In the first half, he was 14-of-21 for 119
yards, 1 TD and 1 INT with 20 yards rushing on eight attempts).
*Junior Zachariah Branch had a career-high 10 catches for 112 yards. It was his first 100-yard game as a Bulldog and second of his career. His 10
catches was the second most by a Bulldog in the UF rivalry, trailing only 15-for-140 by Shannon Mitchell in 1993. Branch’s first catch of the 2nd half was
a 42-yarder. Senior Dillon Bell had four receptions for 43 yards including one TD.
*In the running game, the Bulldogs has 138 yards and were led by redshirt-freshman Chauncey Bowens (70 yards on nine carries, 1 TD) while
sophomore Nate Frazier had 45 yards on 12 attempts.
*A Look At The Defense: UF finished with 281 yards on 56 plays with 115 rushing and 166 passing . Coming in today, Georgia was allowing just 19.6
points a game while the Gators were averaging 22.4. UF managed 20 points.
*Down 24-20, UF attempted a 4th-and-4 from its own 31, and the pass was incomplete as Robinson IV was credited with a pass breakup.
*In a tie game, UF got the ball to start the second half and Georgia forced a three-and-out for five yards. Then, UF went 79 yards in 12 plays to tie it at 17.
*With UF leading 20-17, UF attempted a 4th-and-1 at the UGA 18, and the Bulldogs stopped Jadan Baugh with Raylen Wilson and Elijah Griffin.
*UF hit a 54-yard field goal to take a 20-17 lead with 14:52 left in the contest to finish a five play, 26-yard drive.
*In the first half, the Gators posted 10 points, gaining 127 yards of offense on 22 plays. UF was 0-for-5 on 3rd Down.
*Georgia’s leading tackler today was junior CJ Allen with a career-high 13 while Raylen Wilson was next with eight.
*UF’s first TD was a one play, 40-yard pass from DJ Lagway to Eugene Wilson that tied the game in the first quarter.
*Junior DL and Jacksonville native Jordan Hall, who started and was a game captain, injured his left leg on the first posssesion and did not return.
*Sophomore DB KJ Bolden was flagged for targeting with 1:36 left in the first half and was disqualifed for the remainder of the game.
*Special Teams Update: Senior Brett Thorson had six punts for a 43.0 average including a season-high 66-yarder and three placed inside the 20. His
first punt went for 24 yards. UF responded with a 40-yard TD to tie the game. His next two punts were pooch efforts and fair caught at the UF11. In a
17-17 game in the 3rd quarter, Thorson had a 49-yard punt with no return. He had a 56-yarder with a six-yard return in the 4th quarter.
*Junior PK Peyton Woodring tallied six points on three PATs and a game-tying 39-yard field goal at the end of the first half plus he handled the kickoffs.
*Captains, Coin Toss And For Starters: Georgia’s captains were Dillon Bell, Gunner Stockton, Jordan Hall and Raylen Wilson.
*Florida won the toss and elected to defer the ball until the second half.
*Georgia started the same offensive line for the second straight game. This front four first made its debut in week three in a road win over No. 15
Tennessee, and due to various injures, that unit only returned against No. 5 Ole Miss and now Florida. The line featured Monroe Freeling (LT), Micah
Morris (LG), Drew Bobo (C), Dontrell Glover (RG) and Earnest Greene III (RT). The Bulldogs have started six different OL units this season.
*Junior CJ Allen owns the longest streak at 11 games dating to 2024.
*Up Next: Georgia (7-1, 5-1 SEC) head to Miss. State next Saturday with kickoff at Noon ET. MSU is at Arkansas today.

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Postgame Notes: Florida Game, Nov. 1, 2025

Georgia Postgame Quotes vs. Florida
Nov. 1, 2025
Georgia Head Coach Kirby Smart
Opening Statement
“Opening statement is that this team just won’t go away. First of all, a lot of credit goes to Coach
Napier for assembling this roster. He’s got a bunch of big, tough, physical players, and that’s one
of the biggest things. Defensive line, offensive line, they match up very well from a physical
standpoint, and they were hard to defend. Tough up front, stopping things, and making it tough.
Our kids were very resilient. Another night in the SEC. I don’t know what else is going on around
the country, but when you play in this league, every game comes down to the last few
possessions. I thought we managed that well. Played the game, obviously in the fourth, had
fourth downs where we were able to get a stop. That made the difference in the game. We
knew they had four downs. Three-point differential, they weren’t going to kick a field goal there.
I wouldn’t have either. Defense made a huge stop. Offense had a great drive, and then the
defense came out with another big stop. A lot of credit goes to the players. We’ve gotten better
throughout the year. We’re a beat-up football team with a lot of injuries, so looking forward to
getting ready for next week.”
On Gunner Stockton…
“He’s a gamer. He plays better as the game goes on when he has to. I don’t think he played his
best. They did some good things defensively. They ran some tight coverages. Different from Ole
Miss, it was just a different kind of defense in the way they attacked. We’d try to run the ball.
We didn’t run the ball as efficiently as we have in the past. That’s every quarterback’s best stuff
to some explosives for him.”
On RB Chauncey Bowens…
“Greta runs. I’ll be honest with you, Nate [Frazier] can probably make those runs, too. Dwight
[Phillips] can make those runs. [Josh] McCray can make those runs. I’ve got to give credit where
credit is due. Chauncey did an awesome job, and I thought that the check on the run for the

touchdown was the second biggest play of the game. Gunner saw something, changed the ‘O-
line,’ picked it up. It’s hard to run that and to defend that play when you’re straining the line,

which they were doing. A great check by him [Stockton], and our ‘O-line’ ran it beautifully.
We’ve worked on that very hard. Chauncey was worth a great run, so I’m really proud of him.
That was a good job, and the toss sweep was a nice play, too.”
On the status of Chris Cole, Jordan Hall and Demello Jones…

“We patched together because we had to. We have some depth on the ‘D-line.’ I don’t know
Jordan’s injury. It’s something to do with his knee. I don’t know the exact injury. Demello is
something with his elbow. I don’t know how severe it is. Chris Cole is something with his knee. I
didn’t get a report before I came in here, so I don’t know. That puts us a little bit down at
several positions. We’ll have to have guys step up and play. It’s all over our region right now.
Florida was that way coming into the game besides the defensive guys they got back for this
game.”

3 ILB CJ Allen

On what he saw on Florida’s fourth-and-one try late in the fourth quarter…
“It was definitely a huge stop. We knew what it was, a short one, and the defensive line did a
good job of getting pushback to cut the offensive line down. It was a great job on defense.
On playing in this game as a player from Georgia…
“It feels great, especially like you’re saying as a Georgia kid. Kind of just watching this game, and
as I got older, and finally being able to play in it. It’s just a dream come true.”

6 DB Daylen Everette

On the two fourth-quarter fourth down stops…
“It was definitely big. That was something that we definitely needed. When the moment came,
we just knew what we had to get and did our best job to deny the sticks.”
On winning close games in the SEC…
“That’s how it’s been the last couple of games, but we try to do a better job of starting faster.
We know what type of team we are in the second half. We get more energy as the game goes,
and that’s been showing the last couple of weeks.”

1 WR Zachariah Branch

On what helped him be successful on a career-high receiving day…
“We’ve got a great offense. Just getting a chance to trust this team, trust the positions that we
get put in. We’ve got a lot of great players into it. None of that happens without people
straining around me. It’s a team sports. They’re doing their job for me, so I have to do my job for
them.”
On his brother Zion Branch playing an increased role in the second half…
“I was excited. He’s been through a lot in his career at the collegiate level. Just to see him stay
hungry and stay humble the whole time, and then when his opportunity came, he seized the
moment. I’m very proud of him and how he handled that situation. I wasn’t even surprised.”

14 QB Gunner Stockton

On the game-sealing drive to end the game…
“The last drive, our defense got a stop, and we needed to run the ball and run the clock out. It
was just kind of the mindset of our ‘O-line’ and all our receivers blocking. They did a heck of a
drive just running the game out.”
On his check before RB Chauncey Bowens’ touchdown…
“We had a run. It was something we practiced a lot. The run we were running wasn’t good into
it because they were sending some pressure. We checked into the other way, everybody
blocked it the right way, and Chauncey ran his butt off. It was a great play.”