The win loss results may not be where we all want but i am excited to be a Gator. Those young men showed a lot of heart.

Mizzou fam/alum here. I was so impressed by your Gators tonight. They showed so much character and they punched the Tigers back where a lot of teams have folded - see last weeks Tennessee game for example. Your players and coaches showed a lot to class, even in a disappointing loss. You came to Columbia and had us on the ropes on national TV. One or two lucky breaks that go the other way and the Gators very easily come out victorious. You should be proud of your program. I think you guys will be very scary in the coming years.

The team fought hard and surprised me. Wasnt expecting much with all the injuries and young players playing. Go Gators 🐊

Can't help but feel bad for Mertz. That kid has been good all year and has guts. Something the defense knows nothing about.

Much respect for the way this team played today! Yeah, losing sucks but you guys never gave up and that speaks a lot about the team and the coaches. Best wishes to Merz and a speedy recovery. Go Gators!

As a terrible Tiger fan, I must say you Gators put up one Helluva fight. Coach, with that look, right now, You look hungrier than ever

This has been a bad year for us Gators, not where alot of us thought we'd be nearing the end of the season! I will say as tough as it has been losing so many games this season, I have to give much respect to all the players who continued to play with heart game in and game out!! We fans have been very critical of coach Napier ( myself included ), I can only hope and pray that things will be waaaaay better next year and down the road!! If this Gator team can come back next year and play with better experience, and the same heart they've played in all these games, God help anyone who has to play us!! Go Gators!!

These young men showed toughness and growth. Go Gators.

Billy is not intelligent enough to be in this position, this gets proved every week. How long are we going to act like this guy isn't a dolt??

Time is up Napier. You're not an SEC coach.

Go Gators! Tough loss, but the way they showed up to play was awesome!

We snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

This is a young team that's learning about toughness and overcoming adversity. People hate on Billy but this is genuinely the best way for these guys to develop. I'm excited for the future

I will never forget 4th &17

Hey Billy. We don’t need the same story over and over. At the end of the day, the preparedness comes from YOU. It looks like there is a common denominator here.

If I simply saw the score, a 2 point loss, I would feel pretty good. Knowing how winnable this game truly was. Stings. Sigh. Go Gators. Better times ahead. Let’s have a victory party at the swamp against FSU.

No excuses for blowing a 4th and 17 game winning situation

Hell of a coaches game y’all boys were close and y’all getting closer to being back on top we see the work billy

Napier blew another game with horrible clock management. One more first down and we would have killed the clock when Miissouri got the ball back after our go ahead field goal. Instead, as soon as we got close enough for Smack, he went conservative and settled for a one point lead with 1:40 left in the game. The D almost saved him but allowed the 4th and 17 pass which ended the game. This loss is on Napier's head. The effort deserved better.

We may not win it. But we'll be in it? Who talks or thinks like that. And then think the ,Gators , have a standard?

Even though its a loss that was one of the best games this yr. They gave mizzo a fight to the end. If they can play like that every game the wins will come.

Very tired of the 5 minute champions of life speech every week Billy. Get right to the questions

I feel bad and have respect for Mertz. Yeah I didn’t like him at the beginning, but every game he grinded his ass off. I hope he recovers fast and he can be proud to that he played for Florida.

Defense been cursed since Todd Grantham he left his Spirit in our program

I feel so bad for Mertz and I hope he gets well soon 🙏 But our defense gave up a 4th&17 to Missouri with the game in the bag that shows we need to make some adjustments

Does he say the exact same thing every time???? Lol

Penalties and situational awareness have to improve

Still believe in Billy! Still believe in this team! If you look at how we are now compared to the start of the year, such progress! We lost to the 9th rank team by 2 points when they were favored by 12.5 and we had 3rd stringers!! One heck of a game! Love it, excited to see what Florida football is going to be under Billy in the future!

If you have to go down, you go down fighting! Gators fought well. Proud of them and proud to be a Gator!

4th&17, AFTER TWO BUTTER FINGERS players drop game winning picks!! Can we hurry up and end this season please? 2 words: GRIP BOOST🐊

I wish Mertz a speedy recovery, I'm proud of the way our team showed up and played their butts off. While the result wasn't what we wanted. I think the future is certainly bright in Gator Nation

This was the best game florida has played this year! Fought hard through adversity in a tough environment against a very good football team that should have beaten ga, they played lights out and if not for a few costly mistakes, they win this game!

The defense cost us the game again shocker...

We’re losing games due to coaching guys.

There were some really good plays from guys I hadn’t heard much about until last night. It’s frustrating as a fan to see mistakes that lose games but they are young and still learning. And they are playing hard and getting better. Next year they will be older and more experienced and frankly bigger. Napier is a good football coach and I think he’s moving the team in a good direction.

4th and 17 will be the mill stone that drags Billy back to the Sunbelt. The defense has gotten worse. He has completely missed by hiring a child.

This loss is on Billy. Clock management lost this one. The players played hard, but this one is on Napier’s horrendous clock management and no sense of urgency to end the first half, more bad clock management at the end of the fourth to give Mizzou the ball with 1:40 left, and the defense giving up 500 yards and not covering Burden on a 4th and 17…

Mad respect for Max Brown for doing his part in this game. It’s not the d that cost us that game. It was that T Ettienne went out of bounds at the end. Can’t help but realize all the improvements Fl has made since Fl vs Ga. Go Gators and prayers up to Mertz

Go Gators. It's ok. Keep fighting

I agree with Napier and will say what he won't ... for the Mertz haters at the start of the year who said he would drag the Gators down and was a bad pick can kiss his ass. If Mertz stays next year we will be in good shape.

Everyone knows with everything that went on during that game, that 4th and 17 killed us. Regardless of everything that happened in the game. That 4th and 17 was the biggest let down of the year for me. I still love my Gators though. GO GATORS!!!!!

Proud of the team for playing hard!! We will win next week!!

proud of the underclass man and freshman last night so much potential

Too many mistakes. Coaching staff looks foolish. Way too many mistakes to win football games consistently. Can’t get a play off to start the 4th quarter, 10 pre snap penalties, allowing a 4th and 17. Napier looks clueless

Folks respect Mertz, Coach. However, you’re right. We’ve got a problem. You don’t adequately prepare your team to win! We lack physical toughness! Our DBs are terrified to hit or be hit! Fix it!!!!

Hey Georgia! Hey Alabama! Thank you for getting coaches and players that are playing unlike Florida who is a sunbelt team and not SEC team

Should've been more aggressive to try and score a TD on our last possession instead of just trying to stay in FG range. No excuse!

If I'm florida I send pressure on 4th and 17.... what do you have to lose

The defense is the glaring issue right now. Youth & injuries are one thing. Defense looks unprepared, tackling, wrapping up & effort have been a season long issue & that reflects coaching

We need a oc, st coordinator, and Armstrong needs help. A mentor.

Love how all the fans are happy and proud with Billy and the team with a 5-6 record.

Why are we satisfied with the bare minimum, we know what Florida football should be and it should be consistently contending for sec and national championships! We have to make changes

Florida played hard the entire 60 minutes and it took every second for Missouri to beat them. When mertz made that play watch the sideline. Plays like that inspire teams. That's one of the things that made Tebow so great. Mertz showed out the 15 jersey. That game was awesome last night I don't even care that we lost because I know the wins are coming now. Max brown isn't getting talked enough either. He fumbled the ball in the red zone so how does he respond to that ? He leads them to 2 straight scoring drives to take the lead on the road against a top 10 team.

DC needs to go

And open up the playbook for QB Max Brown, he is our Jordan Travis so to say! And Mertz is my guy, the kid is a warrior 🪖🐊🩵!

Someone really needs to look into his past or even present. Even this day his eye's is dark it just empty looking

First off he’s being disingenuous! I’m pretty sure this isn’t the first time these guys playing football and it’s not your first time coaching. The development isn’t where it should be. Overall the game was decent it’s some things Napier could’ve did on offense to ramp it up and the defense kept giving the game away. Where’s the progression? I’m tired of the philosophy shit he gives instead of winning the games that’s in your hands. He’s the leader so Napier needs to lead. The players and coaches answer to you. Its not going to get easier either by the look of the schedule so he need to figure this shit out

Great job Coach and team. You’re headed in the right direction. Hopefully the incoming commits stick to it and come in and we’re going to have a great team. Very proud of how hard y’all fought.

Well they shud have won but coaches failed the players again

Hire an OC, fire defense line coach linebacker coach, defensive back coach but let’s keep it real. It’s not gonna happen.

I’m honestly getting tired of the “Awe shucks” routine from Billy after every single game. We clearly arnt “learning” anything from these games, or else we wouldn’t keep losing them in the SAME FUCKING WAY for 2 years now! Bad clock management, bad late game play calling, and horrible horrible defense. It’s been the reason we’ve lost every single game for 2 years in a row. I’d honestly enjoy watching us lose do to a shoe throw again, because at least it means we didn’t lose due to horrible defense and coaching ineptitude!

MERTZ WE SUPPORT U BROTHA GET WELL

If you had told me before the game we'd only lose by 2 id be happy but the way we lost that game is inexcusable coaching. We are never doing to develop under this coaching staff and Billy will be gone in 2 years. We are 2 stupid coaching decisions from being 7-4 and now we are having back to bad losing seasons for the first time since the 40's

All of you that blam this on billy is crazy

Like I told the Miami fans, you can't end the season on a losing streak and expect people to think you're progressing. You have to find a way to win the close games. You have more talent on your team than most the teams on your schedule, you should not have a losing record in yr 2 barring extreme circumstances, you should not have extended losing streaks at the end of the season. Pointing to closely contested losses against teams you should beat based on talent level doesn't show progress, it just shows that you're not fulfilling your potential. You can't blame other fans for being unhappy. You have Oklahoma and Texas joining the conference next yr and somehow you still have to win more games and 1 extra victory next season is not gonna be enough even though every thinks you will do worse. Its a tough position to be in

Coarch is a nice guy, but is not cutting the mustard. We aren't looking for participation trophies.

He’s a great coach. Don’t know if UF has the patience to find that out.

Are we not going to talking about the classless move Missouri players was doing? They came on our sideline and was Gator Chomping. 😡😡😡😡

I have been a Gator since 1988. The biggest thing that shoots us in the foot over the years is trying to run a play up the middle. That works once in a hundred plays. I am so sick of seeing that fail. Still proud of my Gators. And, yes, Billy has no clock management. Ugh!

We still have issues with simple fundamentals. I was hoping that one area would be improving under Napier. That is one of those details that needs to be hammered home in the off-season. Get the basics right.

The future should be bright. Go Gators 🐊

When we were down in their end after the long run by our 2nd string QB, I said we need to go for the TD because I didn't want it coming down to the foot of the Missouri kicker. When we played for a field goal and a 1 point lead, I predicted we would lose on a field goal by Missouri's kicker. To think that our defense could keep them from getting into field goal range is just pathetic. The kid posing as a D coordinator, needs to be let go tonight.

For the love of God please please please fire Stricklin before mr. Sunbelt

Damn….4th and 17 though. 😢 I can’t help but believe the coaches played scared.

Wow, can we get this qualify of video from our own school?

Called out Gator Nation! Says "we got a problem" 4:14

Not a chance with Napier. He finds excuses but cannot find solutions, and his non emotional personality fails to offer any example of how true winners act. Gotta go, the only issue is how much inferior play and losing will be tolerated. Hope is an evil mistress.

he looks like someone ripped his heart out

4th & 17 with the game on the line you gotta make that stop

The bottom line is winning. In the famous words of Herm Edwards “you play to win the game”! 4 and 17. End of story! Btw, does Napier realize that the UF colors are ORANGE and BLUE? Why the heck is he always wearing black?

Billy we never blamed Mertz. We blamed your play calling and clock management. Play calling was on and off...again. More run sweeps would help and the offense plays better in spread. Buttt hey I'm not getting paid to coach.

4th and 17 should cost someone their job. Player and coach.

We need to manage 2 minute drives at the end of the half better. Wasted possession could've gotten a field goal. But proud of the team hard excited for the future 🐊

Poor coaching again. A lot of talent on this team. HC is going to drive all the talent away. Napier got to go.

He’s not gonna make it here

And yes Gator fans have a problem...his coaching is the problem.

You can actually hear wish the boys in Gainesville would step up their audio game

Way to freaking go Scott Stricklin. I’d rip every damn tribute to Jeremy Foley down if it were up to me. How that guy casual fans to think he was amazing AD is just so baffling.

We’ve always respected Mertz but the lack of coaching and making the defense get better, that’s another story.

Florida been fighting next year will be better.

Hell of a game. I wish we were able to pull it off and go into the FSU with some more confidence. But I am proud of how they played.

Should tried to get td instead of fg on last drive and ate more clock.I have seen this situation a thousand times pro and college-what are the coaches thinking?????

If Saban's DC loses the game on a 4th and 17, he's giving that guy a serious axx chewin on National TV

It’s Sunday at 1:30 pm and I keep looking at my phone for breaking news. 😂😂. What is taking so long? Are they really going to wait for him to lose next week before firing him?!!!!!

😒.. i hope all the defensive positions are open for comp this off season

Put playback speed at 1.25. Much easier to listen to Napier…

It's sad when the standard now is morale victories. True Gators fans know this is unacceptable, and last night should've been a W. The team showed a ton of grit, but bottom line its 4 L's in a row, and FSU w/o Travis and us now w/o Mertz doesnt look so good.

How do you still have that many penalties in week 11 coach? That’s 100% on you.

ole billy is reading the comments it seems lol

I’m so disappointed in our defense we can’t even tackle this ridiculous and he right we have no leadership something has to change.