Danny Wuerffel
Sugar Bowl Hall of Fame
Florida
Sugar Bowls: 1995, 1997
Inducted: 2024
Danny Wuerffel earned essentially every honor that a college football player could collect during his legendary career at Florida. An under-the-radar accomplishment for the star quarterback from Fort Walton Beach, Fla., is that he threw for more yards than any quarterback in Sugar Bowl history with 700. He had 306 yards and three touchdowns and earned the Miller-Digby Award as the Sugar Bowl MVP when the Gators rolled to a 52-20 win over Florida State to clinch the national championship in the 1997 game. Prior to that, he had thrown for 394 yards (then a Sugar Bowl single-game record) and a TD in the Gators’ 1995 loss to FSU. A two-time First-Team All-American, Wuerffel claimed the 1996 Heisman Trophy, the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award, and the Maxwell Award. The two-time SEC Player of the Year posted a 45-6-1 career mark as a Gator, finishing his career with nearly 11,000 passing yards and 33 school records, taking Florida to bowl games in each of his four seasons. He also earned the William V. Campbell Trophy, the National Football Foundation’s top honor which is recognized as the Academic Heisman.
