Coming into the Kentucky game, the Florida Gators didn't seem to have any idea who the clear QB1 was going to be for the rest of the season.

It's not like this team is SEC Championship game bound or heading to the College Football Playoffs, but including a bowl game, they still have three dates left on the schedule.

Florida managed to go to Lexington and stun the No. 11 Wildcats, 21-14, in a game where Philo proved exactly why he was QB1 to begin with.

An injury kept the Georgia Tech transfer out of the Texas game, and that just so happened to be Tramell Jones Jr.'s coming out party.

Aaron Philo started the Georgia game, but things did not go according to plan and he was benched after a pair of interceptions.

After Jones failed to pick up a win against unranked Oklahoma, Jon Sumrall decided to go back to Philo for this team's most important remaining game.

That decision turned out to be the right one as Philo had 221 total yards, 102 of which came on the ground.

Jones didn't see the field at all in a game where Florida earned a seven-point victory to clinch bowl eligibility. 

During his time with the Yellow Jackets, running was not part of Philo's game. This is a guy who had 76 rushing yards in 2024 and only 19 yards in a two-game sample size in 2025.

This season, Philo hadn't rushed for more than 32 yards in a game. To put it into perspective, he had a pair of outings where he combined for just three rushing yards.

In his seven games prior to the Wildcats showdown, he had 104 rushing yards on the year. Against Kentucky, he ran the ball 15 times for 102 yards.

Philo has seen that sort of volume before, but he's never turned it into true positive yardage. For reference, he had 13 carries in the South Carolina game but only finished with 32 yards.

He took that 2.5 yards per attempt average and increased it to an astonishing 6.8 against what many thought was a College Football Playoff contender.

There's undoubtedly still a lot of work needed to be done in the passing game, but if Philo is able to run like this in the final two regular season games, he unlocked a one-two rushing combo with Jadan Baugh that could rival not just the SEC, but the entire nation.