2025 Spring Game: Orange 32, Blue 38

Overview
Senior running back Ja'Kobi Jackson rushed for 198 yards on 10 carries and three TDs, lifting the blue team to a 38-32 win over the orange team in the Orange and Blue game.

A crowd of 56,563, the largest for a Florida Gators spring game since 2009, also watched Florida basketball celebrate its third national title in school history during halftime.

Standout Players

WR Dallas Wilson
True freshman receiver Dallas Wilson tied Trevon Grime's 2019 Orange and Blue Game record with 10 receptions for 195 yards and 2 touchdowns.

RB Ja'Kobi Jackson
Redshirt senior running back Ja'Kobi Jackson rushed for 198 yards and 3 touchdowns (19.8 yards per attempt) with long TD runs of 23, 40, and 90 yards.

LB Myles Graham
Sophomore linebacker Myles Graham led team Orange with 8 tackles (5 solo) with one TFL. The versatile linebacker also lined up cornerback and showed off his man-to-man coverage on a go-route.

LB Ty Jackson
Freshman linebacker Ty Jackson led team Blue with 11 tackles (3 solo) with one sack and 2 TFL.

K Trey Smack
Senior kicker Trey Smack set an Orange and Blue Game record with a 56-yard field goal while also making all 4 PATs.

QB Harrison Bailey
Transfer senior quarterback Harrison Bailey (Tennessee, UNLV, Louisville) completed 29 of 43 attempts (67%) for 363 yards and 3 touchdowns. His lone interception came from a ball tipped by receiver TJ Abrams. The only negative to Bailey's performance were low balls tipped at the line of scrimmage.

Notable statistics:
QBs
- QB DJ Lagway 0/0, (Did Not Throw - Throwing Arm Injury)
- QB Aidan Warner: 10/23, 157 YDS, 2 TD
- QB Harrison Bailey: 29/43, 363 YDS, 3 TD, 1 INT

WRs
- WR Dallas Wilson: 10 REC, 195 YDS*, 2 TD (*Spring Game School Record - REC YDS)
- WR Naeshun Montgomery: 3 REC, 70 YDS

RBs
- RB Ja'Kobi Jackson: 10 CAR, 198 YDS, 3 TD
- RB Jadan Baugh: 11 CAR, 56 YDS

LBs
- LB Ty Jackson: 3 solo tackles, 8 assisted tackles, 11 total tackles, 1 sack, 2 TFLs
- LB Myles Graham: 5 solo tackles, 3 assisted tackles, 8 total tackles, 1 TFL, 1 PBU
- LB Jaden Robinson: 3 solo tackles, 5 assisted tackles, 8 total tackles, 1 TFL, 1 PBU

DBs
- S Drake Stubbs: 5 solo tackles, 8 total tackles, 1 interception

EDGEs
- EDGE Kofi Asare: 3 solo tackles, 5 total tackles, 2 sacks, 2 TFLs Myles Graham: 5 solo tackles, 8 total tackles, 1 TFL

Thanks, E--.
Failing an actual telecast, all the pertinent facts (overt and "between the lines") are here.
Especially "Lagway: 0/0"...
(I personally am SICK of comments, from both within and without Gator Nation, extrapolating as to the significance not just of the stat itself but the way in which it has been presented (not to mention its various supposed longterm implications).
All we can DO is wait and SEE. Our Coach has made certain claims by way of explanation; their accuracy/veracity (choose one) will become clear soon enough.
In the mean time, the neurotics AND the trolls had best STFU!!!
Main impression is this:
"We got a lotta TALENT on this team--BOTH sides of the ball. And it is, more and MORE, a TEAM."
Provided DJ is healthy, and ready in plenty of time to have been running the offense all summer, I for one have excited optimism for these Gators as they come into their own for 2025--even AGAINST that supposedly "prohibitive schedule".
But I am already sick of the talk, from ALL sides.
Let us see what summer-into-fall brings.

Meanwhile, whether it is these "ATHLON" writers or whomever the ESPN personnel were whose views, opinions and (ultimate actual) VOTES were counted to produce that list of "best players in CFB as we approach the 2025 season" ( the one that somehow had DJ way down at something like #42--yeah, THAT one) all only served to produce even more collective resentment among the players than it did among the FANS! Already coalescing as a tight TEAM, here's hoping all this is further provoking a similarly "collectuve" CHIP-ON-ITS-SHOULDER!
Nothing outlandish--just a bit of that "extra edge" that might give them a little more in a close game against a favored rival on the road this season...
We've got a tough schedule, no real "let up" from game 3 on; a couple of surprising late wins on the road could make the difference as far as a possible Playoff appearance. Although it has often infuriated me seeing these pieces now, I can only HOPE that it all just ARMORS the team as a whole.