Gator Country brings you our new Friday prediction podcast for the Florida Gators vs. Arkansas game on Saturday afternoon on the road.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down the key match-ups in this game, where will Florida pick on Arkansas on offense.
Andrew and Nick also predict the big games around the country, plus give you three players to watch on Saturday for the Florida Gators.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew: What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, the W is flying.
Nick: I was waiting for something else there.
Andrew: No.
Nick: Your tone made me think that there was going to be more there, but that’s who I picked. I can’t remember if you picked the Cubbies, or if you went…
Andrew: I went Cubbies and Red Sox, and I think you went Cubbies and Rangers.
Nick: Yeah, but I picked the Cubs to win. Not saying I was Nostradamus or anything, just rooting for a friend of mine that I grew up with, Anthony Rizzo. Hilarious. He was hilarious last night on the broadcast. He dropped the Anchorman, “I’m in a glass case of emotion.” Really happy for him. It’s been two years in a row now that guys who I’ve played with have won World Series. Here I am, doing a podcast with you.
Andrew: We’re all good.
Nick: Who’s the real winner, Rizzo?
Andrew: Yeah.
Nick: You with the World Series, or me with my podcast with Spivey?
Andrew: Well, Rizzo would like to be doing the podcast with Spivey too. Let’s halt that now. I got to give a quick shout out to my boy, David—
Nick: Quick question. Do the Braves win the World Series in 2017?
Andrew: 2018 is the year, my man.
Nick: That’s a negative.
Andrew: 2018 is the year for Atlanta. Atlanta gets in contention next year. I think they get on the verge of knocking in the playoffs, somewhere right around in that area. 2018 is the year they battle to get to the Series. The Braves have a team built just like the Cubbies in that they’re so young that when the pieces finally come together things are going to be really good. That’s what the Cubbies are. When you look at the Cubs, the outfield is a little old with Heyward, Zobrist, and Dexter Fowler, but the infield is extremely young.
Nick: I just hope that Gator Country doesn’t drug test, because you might be out of a job.
Andrew: Lord, I just hope and pray that the Braves do not pull the Cubbies and have to go to 10 innings to win their World Series, because I may be in the ground when the Braves win.
Nick: You would not live to see that. You would have an actual real life heart attack, and you would not live to see the end of the game.
Andrew: No. Real quick, before we get into football talk, I got to give a quick shout out to David Ross. For people that don’t know, Ross is a former Gator. I had the chance to go up to Atlanta a few times and talk to Ross when Gator Country was doing our magazine. Awesome guy. Would spend an hour with me each time I went up there, and was just an awesome guy on and off the field. So props to David Ross, goes out a winner, as he retires, but people didn’t tune in to listen to baseball here, Nick. They want football talk.
Nick: And we’ve got it for them. Florida heading out to Arkansas. Florida is all time 9-1 against the Arkansas Razorbacks. They lost their first matchup against Arkansas, so it’s 9 straight.
Andrew: Have not lost to Arkansas once they’ve been in the SEC.
Nick: Have never lost at Arkansas either.
Andrew: There you go. The line is 4 points as we’re taping this Thursday afternoon. It was an over/under of 48 points scored, depending on which line you look at. Nick, I continue to see this, and it’s one of those things where I’m cautiously optimistic about it, but I feel like Florida should do really well in this game. Part of me wonders if I’m over confident in it. We’ll see. Going out to the hog pen in Fayetteville will be a little bit of a test, but I think second half is when Florida ends up just dominating the game, after they kind of put their will at it.
Nick: That’s kind of what Chad told us. I mean, listen, Chad, from Arkansas, he watches that team like we watch Florida. He knows them inside and out. If Chad’s telling us, I don’t think the hogs have the hogs to be able to run with Florida, I tend to believe that.
Andrew: Yeah. Chad’s like me in that he’s going to side on the positive side, and when he’s not positive about it you knew something was not brewing right up in hogville. Couple of things. Cronk is going to travel with the team. As we reported on Monday, before the rest of the internet decided they wanted to report it, he was back.
Nick: You were all over that.
Andrew: You know, they do call me the Goat for a reason.
Nick: Okay.
Andrew: You set yourself up for that one.
Nick: Threw the alley, and you dropped down the oop.
Andrew: There you go. Maybe we got a basketball career. Maybe.
Nick: I most certainly do not have it.
Andrew: I most certainly do not either, because this white boy ain’t got no jumps. Lordy. Mark Thompson’s traveling as well. Everything’s good with him, and it looks like everybody from an injury standpoint is good to go. So that’s a positive. Not too many times can you come out of a Georgia game and say, “We’re as healthy or healthier than we were.”
Nick: Yeah. To me, before everything kind of got thrown helter-skelter, I thought this was a trap game.
Andrew: Right.
Nick: Mainly because you look at it, and you were supposed to be coming off of LSU, Georgia. They get a bye week. Arkansas comes off a bye week, and it was like, how healthy would you be coming off of those two games? Now, LSU obviously is two weeks away, and Florida’s healthier now than they were after the Missouri game, healthier than they were going into the Georgia game. So I’m starting to even fall of my this is a trap game. Now I think, the only thing I really think you’re battling is battling being comfortable. What I mean by that is you have a game and a half lead over Kentucky. A game and a half lead over Kentucky in the SEC East. Not Tennessee, a game and a half lead over Kentucky. We can talk about Butch’s dumpster fire if you want, later, but I think you have to battle complacency. It’s, if we lose this game, it’s not the worst. All we have to do is win two out of three. No football team is going in thinking, we can lose this game, whatever.
I think it’s just battling complacency, and did you prepare every day this week like you were supposed to? McElwain said on Wednesday that practice Tuesday sucked. He didn’t like what he saw Tuesday. Team bounced back on Wednesday. What will they do on perfect Thursday, but that’s where it is. It’s are you getting a little complacent because you got some cushion now? You can’t afford to.
Andrew: Here’s the thing that I think of, and it’s kind of the same thing we talked about heading into the Georgia game. Really it’s even more so now than it was in that Georgia game. The playoff rankings come out on Tuesday, and it says Florida is #11, behind several two loss teams. I’m cool with that in a way. I think that Florida’s body of work hasn’t shown that, but if you’re the guys in the locker room, you should be a little pissed off that two loss teams are ranked ahead of you. That’s something you’ve got to prove as well. You cannot take anything for granted going forward. You see that with South Carolina and Tennessee last week. It’s go time, especially on the road. If you come out, and you allow Arkansas to take all the momentum, you may be looking at a game that gets out of control, because you’re playing at Arkansas, and is Arkansas Alabama? Is it LSU? Is it Tennessee to play at? No, but it can get to rocking with that woo, pig suey!
Nick: I’m so glad this is not like a normal opponent.
Andrew: I wish it was. I love, woo, pig suey!
Nick: So glad it’s not a normal opponent. I can see that happening. Listen, college football is such a game of momentum. I really agree with Chad in that I don’t think Arkansas has enough to run with Florida, but when you get into 18-22 year old kids, momentum is a real thing. You start feeling down on yourself in a game, and the other team starts feeling good, crazy things can happen.
Andrew: Listen, I hate Tennessee, and, yes, I did. I said, I hate Tennessee. South Carolina ain’t got near the horses.
Nick: Hold on. Breaking news on the podcast. Andrew Spivey, not a fan of Tennessee.
Andrew: Yeah. There you go. Breaking news. Break it. SEC Country, write up a blurb. It’s there. Write up a blurb. I mean, they shouldn’t have even been close in that game. I was driving back to the hotel Saturday night when they were up, when South Carolina was up 14-7 at halftime, and I told some people, “It’s going to be a blow out in the second half, because they’re going to go in and make some halftime adjustments, and Bada bing, Bada boom, it’s going to come out, and it’s going to be different.” It didn’t, and that’s what I’m saying. So like anything can happen. That’s why I’m saying I might even be a little more confident about the game than I should be, just because when you start to look at things they’ve just been really bad. I mean, you can say what you want, Auburn is a better team, but you gave up 503 yards in that game and got blown out.
Nick: What about they’ve had two weeks now to kind of stew over that? These hogs might be foaming at the mouth by the time Florida comes in.
Andrew: Can I use one of your lines?
Nick: Hold on. You played football. You were a football coach. You know you want to get right back out there after a game like that.
Andrew: Right. Yeah. Let me use one of your lines.
Nick: Hit me. You’re not going to execute it like I would, but go ahead.
Andrew: Your line is, you are what you are. You say that all the time.
Nick: That’s true.
Andrew: When I said that I thought Florida’s offense was going to better, you said, “Are they? Because they are what they are.” That’s kind of the same thing with Arkansas, and that is that they can be fuming at the mouth, and they’re going to be whatever hogs do, grunt, whatever they do. When it comes time to Scarlett pounding them 30 times, and then you get Perine, and then you get Mark Thompson and the rest of the crew hitting you, what happens? I mean, what happens? They’re the same guys.
Nick: That’s true. They are who we thought they were.
Andrew: Yeah. They are.
Nick: Will Florida let them off the hook?
Andrew: I don’t think so. I’m really expecting Florida to come out, and that offensive line that has got better the last two weeks, and, yes, they did get a little bit better in the Arkansas game. I mean, Arkansas, I’m already talking about that. In the Missouri game they got even better. Martez Ivey played his best game of his Gator career. They should be able to continue to improve on that with an opponent that is not as good as they are. At this point in time, I think it’s more about the offensive line getting confidence. I think you could run them out there against North Texas or whoever else, they played good, and it helped their confidence.
Nick: Yeah. Here’s something else. As far as taking a toll, this will be Arkansas’ ninth game, their sixth against a ranked opponent. Poor Bret.
Andrew: Poor Bert.
Nick: Not helping him out at all. Not helping out at all with the schedule.
Andrew: Poor Bert. Poor Bert. Maybe he’ll have some new, whatever. What did he have?
Nick: Yeezys.
Andrew: Yeezys. What did Mullin have?
Nick: No, Mullin had Yeezys, because they are an Adidas school.
Andrew: What did Bert have?
Nick: Bert this year rocks some nice dress shoes, but before that he was rocking Air Force Ones.
Andrew: Air Force Ones. Maybe he’s got some Air Forces for me. May have to ask him.
Nick: I don’t think you could pull that off.
Andrew: You don’t think I would ask?
Nick: No. You would ask. I don’t think you could pull off the shoes.
Andrew: I was about to say. You know me better than that, and you know I will ask.
Nick: You have no problem asking for handouts.
Andrew: If they got free gear, let’s go with it. Let’s move on a little bit more to the defense. Defensively Florida’s healthy again. They’re not healthy, let’s not act like Jarrad Davis is healthy. He’s not healthy. He’s playing off of raw emotion. He’s playing off of I’ve got four more games, four more regular season games left in my college career. That’s what he’s playing off of, but he’s going to play, and I would say he’s probably more healthy this week than he was last week, just because that’s another week off, or a week resting it. As far as Sherit, Ivie, those guys, they’re getting better, and that’s a problem for opposing teams.
Nick: Yeah. I think that you really saw the effect of it against the run.
Andrew: That’s what Arkansas wants to do.
Nick: Yeah. This isn’t the Arkansas team that you think though.
Andrew: No.
Nick: Because it’s not, they don’t have, and it’s weird that Bret Bielema doesn’t have, pardon the terrible pun, but doesn’t have those hogs, those big boys up front on both lines of scrimmage that you would think he would. This isn’t a team, Bret’s not going to line up and run the ball 60 times. To him that’s borderline erotic. He would love to do that. They’re not going to be able to do that against Florida, so they really try to just use the run to set up the pass, set up that play action pass, but what happens if you can’t run? Then there’s no threat on the play action, and then you get guys start pinning their ears back. You don’t want to put yourself in the situation where you’re letting Florida pin their ears back. That’s when Jabari takes you to the zoo. That’s when Austin Allen, who got hurt against Auburn, that’s when he starts becoming well acquainted with some of those edge rushers that Florida has.
Andrew: That’s what I’m saying. It’s not even your normal team in that they’re not trying to run the ball as much. That is something different for Arkansas, but I still think that they’re going to try to establish the run. I mean, you’ve got to do that against Florida, no matter who you are. You better try to establish that run, because if you don’t, and you’ve got to throw the ball 50 times, ask Missouri, ask Kentucky what happens. Not good.
Nick: Kind of falling into it like you are in saying like, I said it for, when was it? Tennessee, and it was almost like, I don’t know how they win. You know what I mean? It’s kind of like looking at numbers and looking at stats, and I’ve watched a couple of their games, and I’m just thinking.
Andrew: I don’t know how Tennessee won, and they already won. I don’t know how.
Nick: That’s what I’m saying. I don’t know how, but before, before that game, I was like, am I just being too confident? I just don’t see how they do it. I’m looking at the roster. I’m looking at the games. I’m looking at their stats, what they like to do, what they’re effective doing, and it’s just like Florida, it seems to me that the only way Arkansas can win, like Florida has answers for that.
Andrew: Yeah. We’ll see. We’ll see. Again, Florida should do really well in the game, and they should continue to move forward. It’s just complacency.
Nick: Yeah. Battling that. I do want to give a shout out to one Arkansas player.
Andrew: Okay.
Nick: Dan Skipper, offensive lineman, made his 42nd consecutive start two weeks ago at Auburn.
Andrew: 42nd?
Nick: 42nd consecutive start. 42.
Andrew: Wow.
Nick: On the offensive line.
Andrew: Wow. That’s pretty impressive.
Nick: Right?
Andrew: That means, did he start day one? I’m guessing so.
Nick: He’s a senior.
Andrew: So he started day one and has been all the way. Wow.
Nick: He’s up for all their awards, Outland trophy. He’s up for pretty much any award that an offensive lineman can get.
Andrew: That’s pretty cool. He is their dude up front. Let’s transition a little bit here. If Arkansas is to have success it’s going to have success hitting that tight end and play action. For me, I think that’s where Anzalone comes in. I think Anzalone once again has a big game. He had a great game against Georgia. I think once again he has a really good game here, but also Duke Dawson. Duke Dawson’s going to be a guy that’s going to be tested. They tested him last week, and no disrespect to Duke.
Nick: Even when he passes the test, he still, and no disrespect to him, still appears to be the easiest of your options when you’re looking at Duke Dawson, Jalen Tabor, Quincy Wilson. None of them are easy options, but if you had to pick you’re probably picking Duke. Then it’s up to Duke to make them pay for that.
Andrew: Duke was walking out after the game on Saturday, and I patted him on the back, and I said, “Great game, Duke.” I said, “I called you out on the podcast and said they were going to pick on you a little bit,” and he goes, “I like it.”
Nick: I don’t think he’s listening to our podcast.
Andrew: No. I know, but I was saying I called him out on the podcast and said they were going to pick on him, and he said, “I like it.” So that’s what I’m saying, like in that he knows. He knows they’re picking on him, and we’ll see again this week for that. Then vice versa, on offense I want to see C’yontai Lewis continue to get better. C’yontai’s had a good game.
Nick: Won’t be long.
Andrew: Doing his thing. Deandre Goolsby, until he breaks a tackle I have no faith in him. C’yontai should be that guy. He can help so many people out on offense by him making plays. Go again. Let’s see it again. That’s what teams have taken advantage of the middle of the field against Arkansas, C’yontai should be that guy.
Nick: Yeah. I think C’yontai needs to continue building off of that. When you look at, I thought he was breaking out last year.
Andrew: So did I.
Nick: Then this year it was kind of like you don’t know what the heck’s going on, but last year against New Mexico State, two catches, 44 yards, two touchdowns, and you’re thinking, okay. Here it is.
Andrew: Here he goes.
Nick: Here’s your 6’4” tight end that’s a mismatch, and he’s a red zone target. This is what you need.
Andrew: Right.
Nick: Then gets hurt against Eastern Carolina, doesn’t come back until the Georgia week. Has one catch for 25 yards there. Not a peak the rest of the year. Not a single catch the rest of the year. This year it was rough sledding. Didn’t play the first week. One for seven, one for four, two for seven, two for 39 against Vanderbilt, one for 13 against Missouri. It’s just not even being involved. It’s not even like…
Andrew: He’s not even targeted.
Nick: Yeah. Not even being targeted, like other than blocking you’re not really in the game plan, and that’s kind of where we’re looking, and we’re thinking, the offense is struggling. Why not hit some of these under routes? Give me a post to the far side of the field, and throw the ball up. Let one of these 6’4” tight ends make a play. Find a way to get these guys in space. These are guys that can even line up wide, and you can get, they run the tight ends in motion all the time. Why not have the tight ends start on the line, so he’s matched up with a linebacker, and then motion them out? Now you’ve got the linebacker playing in unfamiliar space, outside of the hash. It just seems to me that the skillset that these two tight ends have it’s not being used. There is ways that you can creatively get them the ball, and the coaching staff isn’t doing it.
Andrew: Right. The thing I’ll say is this, and that is that right now Goolsby, nobody can have confidence in Goolsby. It is what it is. I mean, the guy is catch, fall, catch, fall, catch, fall. Nobody wants to deal with that. The play action with him in the flats is a play that is designed for him to catch, make one guy miss, and then have tons of open field, because it’s 99% of the time it is a one on one matchup. You make one guy miss, you’re gone. That is what Goolsby is not doing. It’s catch, fall, catch, fall. It’s the same thing over and over. Quite frankly, I think people just get sick of watching it, and you know the staff has to get sick of watching it. They got to sit here and think, “Forget this. One yard? We can hand it off and take the risk out of things, and we’ll get one yard.”
Nick: That is frustrating, but you kind of just got to keep plugging away. You know what I mean? Especially when the offense is not getting the job done.
Andrew: But they’re starting to get the job done in other ways.
Nick: Where is the damn stand pass?
Andrew: Good question, because they tried it on the second play of the game, and it was a false start on hot sauce, and they didn’t do it since. I’m sitting thinking, like “Throw the stand pass. It is open. Please, just throw the stand pass. Let Antonio get five yards. Please. Please. Please, just throw it.” Mac, Nuss, I know you’re listening to the podcast. Andrew wants to see the stand pass this week. Make it happen. If you’re listening, make it happen.
Nick: Got it. What about, what down are you a proponent of it on?
Andrew: Any down, honestly. Any down. 3rd and 2, throw it. Throw it, because it’s a play that should not be stopped for less than three yards.
Nick: I don’t like throwing the ball behind the line of scrimmage on 3rd down.
Andrew: That’s cool. It’s everybody’s opinion. The thing is when you’re getting the ball, and I want to see it to Tyrie, because here’s the thing, and I’m not going against Callaway, because Callaway needs more touches, and that’s an almost guaranteed way of getting him touches, but let me see Tyrie too, because Tyrie’s more physical. I say that in that, not because he’s maybe more physical than Callaway with a heart, but he’s bigger. So he’s more physical. I want to see it to Tyrie a little bit. The worst thing you can do is throw it to Brandon Powell, because that ain’t happening.
Nick: Stop that.
Andrew: Throw it to Callaway or throw it to Cleveland, and let’s see what’s happening. Especially in like a game like Georgia last week. I kept waiting to see it happen when it was the 4th quarter, when they were just trying to run the clock out, and they were stopping the run, because they had eight guys. I’m sitting here thinking like, “Just throw it, the stand pass, and see what you can get, because you’re going to get yards, because it’s a one on one matchup.” I mean, and this is the truth, and we can say what we want to about YAC yards, but Callaway is the one guy that very seldom goes down on one contact.
Nick: Yeah. He fights. He fights through any tackle.
Andrew: Right. I think we’re going to see the stand pass this week.
Nick: We’ll see. If it’s not successful, make sure you tweet at Andrew your grievances with that play call.
Andrew: Sure. Come on. Let’s go. Nick, let’s go to, what do you want to go first, pick our players or our predictions?
Nick: Let’s do buy, sell.
Andrew: Alright. Let’s go buy, sell.
Nick: Buy or sell, the Gators have four sacks and double digit quarterback hurries this weekend.
Andrew: Sell.
Nick: Really?
Andrew: Yup. That’s a lot. I mean, that’s a lot. I’ll sell, because I think the first half they still try to run the ball, so I sell.
Nick: Okay. Florida has had four sacks three times this year in the first three games.
Andrew: And none since.
Nick: One at Tennessee. Two at Vanderbilt. Two at Georgia. I’m also going to sell.
Andrew: Really?
Nick: Yeah. I was always going to sell that. I thought you would be buying it. I think that’s a lot. Maybe get two. I would say not the sacks, but you will get double digit pressures.
Andrew: Okay. I’m also thinking they will get double digit pressure, but four sacks is a lot. So yeah.
Nick: Buy or sell, Jabari Zuniga has two sacks.
Andrew: JZ. No. Buy.
Nick: That’s why I read that one next. We both just sold four. We both just sold on four, so probably not going to give one player two. Jabari, let’s see. Jabari hasn’t had a sack since one in Vanderbilt. Went two games without. He was getting hugged last week, but I will say no.
Andrew: How was the breakup between him and that right tackle?
Nick: I think he took it hard. Jabari’s just not ready to be tied down like that.
Andrew: Alright, what you got?
Nick: Buy or sell, 450 yards or more of offense for Florida.
Andrew: Sell. About 350, 400. 350. They get the lead, and Mac’s shown over the last couple weeks he’s just, when he gets the lead he’s ready to bring it back to Gainesville.
Nick: Alright. Arkansas is giving up 428 yards of offense per game.
Andrew: Still sell.
Nick: You still sell? They have given up 450 yards four times this year, 572 to TCU, 591 to Texas A&M, 517 to Alabama, 632 to Auburn. Alcorn State picked up 313. I’m going to buy that the Gators get 450 total yards.
Andrew: You’re going to buy it?
Nick: I’m buying it.
Andrew: Still sell.
Nick: You’ve sold, sold, sold. Buy or sell, Florida holds Arkansas to under 300 total yards of offense.
Andrew: I will buy that, for sure, and I will also buy that.
Nick: Is that me?
Andrew: Yeah.
Nick: Arkansas has been held to under 300 yards of offense twice this year, in the first game of the season, and then two weeks ago at Auburn. I am going to sell that. They put up 473 on Alabama.
Andrew: Nicholas here.
Nick: I will buy 300 yards of offense for Arkansas.
Andrew: Sell.
Nick: Buy or sell, Scarlett and Perine score touchdowns this week.
Andrew: I am buying that.
Nick: Buying a two touchdown day from the running backs.
Andrew: Yes. Yes. Buying that.
Nick: I’m going to sell. One of them scores.
Andrew: Okay. I’m buying that.
Nick: Buy or sell, Florida’s offense has 450 yards, we already did that one. Sorry. Excuse me. Got a double. That’s all I have. You’ve got one more though.
Andrew: I do have one more. Let me pull it up. Buy or sell that Florida’s defense holds Arkansas to under 125 yards passing.
Nick: Sell.
Andrew: Sell. They’re going to have to throw the ball.
Nick: They’re going to have to, and you start picking up yards late.
Andrew: I mean, you’re going to hit a chunk, five yards here, five yards there. That starts to add up.
Nick: Yeah.
Andrew: They’re going to bring in, if it’s a big lead, they bring in 14. No telling what happens with 14.
Nick: Yup.
Andrew: Alright. You want to go players next or predictions?
Nick: Predictions. We got, we’ll save that, because that will be the best game. I actually have another over/under for us to attach to one of these games. We’ll start with Pittsburgh at the reeling, dropping four in a row, Miami Hurricanes. Who are you picking? Pitt at Miami.
Andrew: I should have never told you we wanted to pick this game. Richt doesn’t win big games. This isn’t a big game. So make it as what you want to make it.
Nick: Andrew picks Miami.
Andrew: Andrew didn’t say anything. Andrew said Richt doesn’t win big games, and this isn’t a big game. Make it what you want.
Nick: Andrew picks Miami. Over/under, 30,000 fans at this game?
Andrew: Under. They’ll announce more, but it won’t be that many.
Nick: I can’t wait for the pictures from that one.
Andrew: You know they’re going to announce more. They’ll announce different.
Nick: They’ll announce. No, they can’t. You can’t get away with announcing 50 when 25 show up.
Andrew: They’ll announce a good number, and it won’t show up. No, under.
Nick: Nebraska at Ohio State, two top 10 teams here, and two teams that are ahead of Florida, so I think Florida takes care of business this week and they’ll be moving up.
Andrew: Buckeyes win, pretty good.
Nick: I’m not really buying Nebraska.
Andrew: No. They’re fake.
Nick: Not really buying Nebraska. I’m also going to go with Ohio State there. Let’s go with the Georgia Bulldogs, losers of a bunch in a row, at Kentucky.
Andrew: Kirby gets smart again.
Nick: Picking Georgia. I’m going to go with the home Kentucky Wildcats.
Andrew: Oh, hell no. Here we go. Gator Country’s really drug testing, and both of us are getting fired.
Nick: I’m going with the home Kentucky Wildcats. Kentucky continues to stay over Tennessee in the SEC rankings, and Georgia continues to slide.
Andrew: Florida’s offering all of Georgia’s commits already. They all may jump on board if that happens.
Nick: Come on.
Andrew: Come on, boys.
Nick: Big one, probably biggest game of the weekend, it’s Alabama at LSU. Saturday night in Death Valley. Leonard Fournette’s last chance to have a good game against Alabama. Who do you got, Andrew Spivey?
Andrew: So these bozos that were on Saturday Down South, and, yes, I called every one of them bozo. We had to sit by one, this bozo. You ever heard of a bozo? This guy was a bozo. He just didn’t have the bozo nose on. They think that this game’s going to be close.
Nick: I think you just broke a record for how many times the word bozo has been said.
Andrew: This guy really was a bozo. Guy, and he did have a nose that stretched out like the size of Texas, but he was just annoying as shit. There’s a couple people that I don’t like on the Florida beat, but this guy was like he took the mountain. This guy was unreal. Didn’t know how to shut up. Couldn’t, yeah. He needed something. I don’t know. Anyway, to what I was saying, they think LSU’s got a chance in this game. They ain’t got a chance in hell. Bama by two touchdowns.
Nick: You heard, I read a story that was out of Baton Rouge that said Coach O would just get hired if he beats Alabama.
Andrew: Yeah. Maybe LSU doesn’t want to win this game.
Nick: Yeah. Tide rolls. Alabama, Nick Saban said, “We used to be built to beat these LSU Tigers,” saying that they were big. Yeah, man, your defensive line still averages over 300 pounds, so you’re still big. Maybe not as big as you were when Marcell Darius and Mount Cody were on the line, but you’re still big. Tide rolls. I think they get the win here.
Andrew: I’m with you. I think they’re good until the Iron Bowl, and then it’s kind of like Florida/Georgia where you throw everything out, because you never know. Is that our last one?
Nick: That was the last one.
Andrew: So we got to go with the Gators and woo, pig suey.
Nick: That’s so bad.
Andrew: Who do you got?
Nick: Florida.
Andrew: Willing to say anything else?
Nick: Florida, and they cover.
Andrew: Shit. They got to, well, I mean unless. Alright.
Nick: You can win by one. You can win by two. You can win by three. Those are not covers. I say Florida covers.
Andrew: Last week I got the score right.
Nick: You should probably just stop.
Andrew: Yeah. I’m not going to say. Why take the bozo? Why be chicken shit? You get the Goat for a reason. Nick, I want to be called a savage.
Nick: You got to earn that.
Andrew: I know. I got to be that. Anyway.
Nick: I’m a savage.
Andrew: Bullshit.
Nick: You got to earn that.
Andrew: Bullshit.
Nick: If you’re listening to this, tweet at us. Tweet at Andrew, is Nick a savage? Yes or no.
Andrew: No.
Nick: Let the people decide.
Andrew: No. Anybody that does gets blocked.
Nick: You’re not going to block them.
Andrew: I won’t? My block list is on fire.
Nick: It’s all Tennessee fans.
Andrew: Most of them. Florida, 31-10.
Nick: 31-10.
Andrew: 31-10.
Nick: Alright.
Andrew: 31-10. No. No. Yeah. 31-10.
Nick: No. Yeah. Yeah. No. No. Yeah. Yeah. No.
Andrew: 31-10. Gators eat the woo, pig suey!
Nick: If you hit the score twice in a row I will call you a savage, but right now it’s just #savagenick.
Andrew: No. Nick, I got first pick this week, and I’m stealing your guy. #25, Jordan Scarlett.
Nick: STA pride.
Andrew: Finds the zone. Pick #1 is for 25.
Nick: My first pick is going to be Jarrad Davis. Jarrad Davis lit a fire under my ass after the Georgia game talking about, “I wouldn’t have been able to look at myself and wonder what kind of man I was if I didn’t play this game.” This is the kind of game Jarrad Davis is built for. 40.
Andrew: Pick #2. Pick #1. My next pick is going to be 81. He’s going to get more than five touches and find the zone. Pick #2 is for 81.
Nick: My second pick is going to be Marcus Maye. I have a feeling that Marcus Maye is getting an interception this week.
Andrew: I won’t argue. I’m the biggest Marcus Maye fan there is. Love my man, Marcus. All Day Maye gets to write on the board?
Nick: All Day Maye will be able to write it down. It’s been a while for him.
Andrew: Okay.
Nick: He’s only got one on the year.
Andrew: Okay. I hope All Day Maye gets one.
Nick: Just got a feeling. He hasn’t had one since week two, so I got a feeling #2 comes this week.
Andrew: And he was pick #2. My last pick is Cece Jefferson. Really like what he’s doing back at D End. I think he’ll get more playing time. The thing that bothers me with this pick is I’m not sure the stats will show how good of a game he has, but I think Cece has a good game.
Nick: I think you and I can, we’ll be fair. It’s a competition, but we’ll be fair. We watch the game. You could even have said Caleb Brantley, and he could have ended with one tackle, but you and I watch the game, and we know what guys like Caleb Brantley and them are doing.
Andrew: I mean, the stat sheet doesn’t say how good those guys have been playing. Joey Ivie last week didn’t show up in the stats sheet very much, but had a great game. So, go ahead.
Nick: My third player is going to be, I’m switching it up. I’m pulling an Andrew Spivey. My third player is going to be Tyrie Cleveland. You went with Cleveland last week, and it bit you in the butt.
Andrew: Did I? No. I didn’t go with Tyrie last week. I went Del Rio and Perine.
Nick: Okay. Two weeks ago, and you got it two weeks ago. He had three for 79. I think Cleveland gets back into the mix after a one for 13 game. I think he gets back into the mix. I’m going to go career high in receptions for him.
Andrew: What is that? Four?
Nick: I mean, I didn’t say it was an impressive number. I just said it was going to be career high interceptions.
Andrew: Hey, if it’s four stand passes, we’ll know that. Anyway, that’s good. Nick and I are heading to Fayetteville on Friday. If you’re around town Saturday, shoot us a text, a Twitter message or mention or something good like that. Try to say hello to you guys. Like Nick said, if you got any suggestions for Arkansas, let us know.
Nick: Yeah. If you see Andrew in Arkansas, ask him to juju on the beat.
Andrew: Woo, pig suey!
Nick: Or that. As always, www.GatorCountry.com for all your Florida Gator news. Podcast is on iTunes. Search @GatorCountry. It’s also on the website in transcript form, and the audio is there for you too. Do your social media thing. @GatorCountry on Twitter and Facebook. We’ll be doing some more Facebook Live, some live video on there. Check that out. @TheGatorCountry on Instagram. I’m @NickdelaTorreGC. He’s @AndrewSpiveyGC. Follow, like, share, subscribe, do it all.
Andrew: We’ll be on the field before the game, and have some good stuff. We’ll do that, and I’m going to find the hog pen, take a photo of the hog pen.
Nick: You going to jump in there?
Andrew: I might as well. Hey. Woo, pig suey!
Nick: Why not?
Andrew: Why not? I mean, we get to enjoy this stuff. You guys don’t understand. We just live it up with it, have a little fun with everything, and yeah. We’re all good. You guys let us know if you’re in town. If not, we’ll see you guys on Sunday, well Monday. We’ll be taping it on Sunday when we recap it, and next week the South Carolina game’s going to be a big one, Senior Day. Next week should be good. Willy Muschamp hate. As always, guys, chomp, chomp. Go Braves. Mark, Butch, get them Ls this week.
Nick: You stay classy, Gator Country.