Gainesville Sun · Dec 14, 2016
Appleby starts in Outback, then QB competition reopens
Florida quarterback Austin Appleby will start the Outback Bowl, with Luke Del Rio, if healthy, to back up. (Brad McClenny/Staff photographer)Florida’s quarterback competition for the Outback Bowl is closed. The decision has been made. Senior graduate transfer Austin Appleby will start and go the distance as long as he stays healthy.
But after the Jan. 2 game in Tampa, the competition for the starting role becomes wide open again between former starter Luke Del Rio and redshirt freshmen Feleipe Franks and Kyle Trask.
“Absolutely, I mean every year it is. That doesn’t change,” UF coach Jim McElwain said. “And that would be going through spring and you know summer and obviously fall.”