There will be other recaps of Florida’s 13-6 win over Vanderbilt, I promise.
Austin Appleby is Florida’s backup quarterback
Luke Del Rio’s injury inserted Austin Appleby into action unexpectedly, and for a while, it appeared that it wasn’t that unfortunate for the Gators that Del Rio sustained an MCL sprain. Appleby was forgettably decent against North Texas in limited action, then really good for one half and bad-to-middling in the other against Tennessee.
Against Vanderbilt, Appleby cut out the “-to-middling” part.
He threw for 144 yards on 28 attempts, and connected on just two pass plays of at least 20 yards.