Predicting the Florida Gators vs. Tennessee game: Podcast

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we predict the Florida Gators vs. Tennessee Volunteers game on Saturday.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre give you their key match-ups to watch on Saturday including how Florida can get the offense going.

Andrew and Nick give you three guys to watch for the Gators on Saturday, plus predict several game including Florida’s game.

TRANSCRIPT:

 

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, finally a prediction podcast. Cross our fingers that this one doesn’t have to go in the garbage like last week.

Nick:                         Yeah. Taped last week, and then all of a sudden, I guess we’re not going to put that up. Talking about the game that’s not happening.

Andrew:                 I was feeling pretty good about my picks too. I really predicted a Florida victory.

Nick:                         I picked Northern Colorado last week. I’ll be honest. No, I didn’t.

Andrew:                 You didn’t win or lose. It’s whatever. Yeah. God willing, there’ll be a game this week. Thank God. There’ll be some good football. I think that this is a decent game. I think it’ll be a good game for Florida to get their offense rolling. Overall, it’s a pitiful week of football.

Nick:                         Yeah. It’s a rough slate of games. Really the shining star this week is Clemson at Louisville. That’s the primetime game. It’s a rough week out here. Rough week in these streets for college football.

Andrew:                 I mean, the Florida State-Miami game would have probably been your second best game, and that gets cancelled. Then they were probably hoping Texas-UFC would be a good game, but Texas still sucks.

Nick:                         Want to ask you a question. I feel like we say this so often. Do you think this week’s game is another, like for Michigan, like an ugly kind of grind it out game?

Andrew:                 If past Tennessee games are any indication, then it probably is a game that is a run the ball kind of game. I say that, but I also think this could be a coming out party for Feleipe Franks. You know Tennessee’s probably going to come into this game thinking, “They’re going to run the ball. They’re going to run the ball.” Maybe get some play action, stuff like that, to come out.

Let’s face it. This is a game that Nussmeier and Mac need from an offensive standpoint, to not only get fans off their back, but to get the players believing in it again. I mean, as a player after the Michigan game, you kind of had to think, be down a little bit on the offense, right?

Nick:                         They’ll never say it. None of them will ever say it, but if I’m a defensive player for Florida, I’m already thinking, “Oh man, another.”

Andrew:                 Here we go.

Nick:                         This shit. It’s got to be taxing. I don’t know how, not after one week, but I don’t know how it doesn’t divide the locker room. It has in the past.

Andrew:                 Here’s how it doesn’t divide the locker room. Because the offensive guys are pissed off too. They’re like, “Come on. Give me a play call I can work with.”

Nick:                         Yeah. At some point, when your scoring leaders are two cornerbacks and a kicker, it’s easy to start pointing some fingers, I think.

Andrew:                 Exactly. Again, I do think that there’ll be some running in the first half. I would say that probably the first half is an ugly half. If you’re Florida, you should be able to come out in the second half and make some moves with the play action passing, that kind of stuff. Not to give away my pick, but you know I think this could be a good week for Feleipe Franks this week. I’m interested to see how the game comes about, just because I think this is a game that could really get Florida’s offense back on track. I don’t think this is a good Tennessee defense.

Nick:                         Yeah. It’s a defense that lost a lot. I give you a pass. Your rushing numbers are atrocious, but I give you a pass when you have to play Georgia Tech, because they’re going to get theirs.

Andrew:                 But it was so easy. That’s what I don’t …

Nick:                         Georgia Tech makes it look easy weekly. Sometimes a team will come in and stuff them, but you know how it is. You got to be so sound, so disciplined, respect your gaps. It’s almost like not even trusting what you’re seeing, because their whole offense is to make you look one way while the ball’s going the other way. It’s not even just trusting what I see. It’s trusting my coaches that you need to be in this spot on this particular play, and not trying to think too much in your head of the ball went the other way, so I’m going to go. I’m going to break my contain and make a play on the back end. No. You just need to sit there. It takes a lot of discipline for defense ends, defensive linemen, linebackers.

Andrew:                 Cornerbacks. Cornerbacks are a big part in stopping that option and that kind of stuff. Again, that Indiana State number does kind of get up there a little bit. 150 yards rushing to Indiana State. That’s not very good. Again, we’ll see. I was on the radio on Thursday in Nashville, and they asked me, “Where do you see this offensive line? Is it as bad as it looked or is it okay?” I said, “I think the verdict is still out.”

I think we’ll learn a lot about that offensive line this week. Maybe not even this week, maybe down the road. I think it’s somewhere in between what we saw against Michigan. Is it as bad as it looked against Michigan? I don’t think so. Is it good? I don’t think so. I think it’s somewhere in between. Just because I do think Michigan’s front seven is good. I don’t think they were that good. I mean, it was bad.

Nick:                         You got to figure something out there. With Florida, let’s get into Florida’s running game.

Andrew:                 Okay.

Nick:                         You would give the advantage to Florida, if you’re looking at matchups, Florida’s running attack versus Tennessee’s rushing defense. You’d have to give the advantage to Florida. What confidence do you have that that running back rotation will get right?

Andrew:                 Once again, when your running back rotation deals with 24, you have issues, because I think you and I would both agree Malik Davis needs the carries he got. What are you doing here? Again, we’ll see. Need to find a way to get 22 and 20 more carries. Malik Davis needs more carries. He needs to take away some of those Mark Thompson carries. Nick, I just don’t know. It just is mindboggling that he got one carry, did what he did, and then just didn’t get another carry.

Nick:                         Yeah. Happens so often too, man. Happens, I feel like so many times we come back off games and say, “Where did so-and-so go?”

Andrew:                 Right. That’s what I’m saying. I think that that will be a large point of interest this week is to see how the carries are divided up. Again, I don’t understand Mark Thompson getting in on 3rd down. He’s a terrible pass blocker, a terrible pass catcher out of the back field. That’s mindboggling to me in general for that. Yeah. We’ll see where that goes. Like you said, you would give the favorites at Florida in the running game, but you got to have the right guys in there.

Nick:                         Another question, moving on again. Who do you think this game is bigger for, Butch Jones or Jim McElwain?

Andrew:                 Did you just listen in on my radio conversation and ask me the same two questions? I was hit with this question as well. Again, it’s tough for me to say that the pressure’s on Jim McElwain. He’s been to Atlanta twice, but the offense is there, and it’s an issue. It’s tough for me to say the pressure’s on Mac when Butch Jones has done zero. Then again, it almost seems like Tennessee’s okay with his failures. Florida’s not okay with the offensive failures.

Nick:                         You know what Jim McElwain has stopped saying? You remember when people would ask about the offense he would keep saying, “I was also brought here to get to Atlanta.” It’s like, “Yeah. Cool. No one wants to get to Atlanta and get spanked by Alabama, so you got to figure that out too.”

Andrew:                 Here’s the thing. I think, had you been getting to Atlanta, and been competitive—I say been competitive, I mean Florida technically was in the game the first half of both games, but you’re not competitive against Florida State. You weren’t competitive against Michigan twice now. I guess it’s that top 25 ranked teams you don’t have a good record against, that kind of stuff. Had you been competitive in those games, I think it means a different story.

Nick:                         Okay. I think it’s not even about the numbers. It’s not about total rushing yards. Sure, 11 is terrible. It’s not even about that. It’s about, and we talked about it last year, it’s about how’s it look? It’s not fun to watch. It’s just a boring product that it’s hard to sell.

Andrew:                 It looks like Will Muschamp’s offense. I’m sorry.

Nick:                         Eerily, it does. It does. I would even argue that at times, at times, before Treon Harris, Kurt Roper and Will Muschamp had a better looking offense.

Andrew:                 Yeah. My thing is this, Nick.

Nick:                         Shoot. Roper’s got things moving up in Columbia, South Carolina now too.

Andrew:                 Well, good quarterback does that.

Nick:                         Yup.

Andrew:                 I think the thing for me is this, Nick. Again, is Michigan’s offense fun to watch? No. That’s old school football. It’s not fun to watch. At the end of the day, scoring points is fun to watch. It’s just one of those things where when you can start predicting things, and then it’s …

Nick:                         2nd down and fill-in-the-blank. The run is coming.

Andrew:                 Yeah. I guess it’s like you watch all these teams, and you and I got to watch a lot of football last Saturday, and they all make it look easy. I say that tongue in cheek, because it’s not easy, by no means.

Nick:                         You’re doing the same thing as me. You’re watching the game, and you’re like, “Man, when was the last time I saw Florida do something like that?”

Andrew:                 It’s like, “When’s the last time I saw Florida throw a slant and complete it?”

Nick:                         I think that’s an SEC rule for Florida specifically that they’re not allowed to.

Andrew:                 Because it gets batted down at the line of scrimmage. It’s just, “Man, this sucks.” It sucks to watch. I mean, granted, I love good defense. I wouldn’t even mind watching a Michigan offense, just because I like old school football. At the same time, it’s just kind of like your defense is fine. You could air it out. I guess the thing, Nick, that makes it boring to me the most is when I’m waiting 40 seconds for a play to come in.

Nick:                         There’s so much down time.

Andrew:                 There’s no rhythm. There’s no rhythm whatsoever. I think that that’s the biggest thing. Get some rhythm. I mean, just get some rhythm. Let Feleipe air it out. I mean, even if you go five wide, and you’re just airing it out throwing slants all day long. Who cares? It’s not that hard. I say that knowing that it’s not easy either. They almost make it look like it’s unworldly, what they’re trying to do.

Nick:                         Yeah. I don’t know why it takes so long. Maybe that’ll be helped with Nuss going up into the box this week.

Andrew:                 You know what’s going to be helped? Because the garbage cans are coming to town, Nick. The garbage cans are coming to town. I’ve waited long enough. Simply, it is what it is, Nick. The garbage cans are coming to town. Every offensive coordinator needs to face a trash team, and that’s what’s coming to town, the trashcans.

Nick:                         Your Tennessee hate has been kind of reserved this year.

Andrew:                 It has been. I said this to someone the other day, and I said, “I don’t know what it is. I don’t know if it’s the hurricane and the uncertainty of where this game is going to be played until Tuesday, or what.” Nick, granted, one thing, buddy, the hate’s still there for the Volunteers. This guy does not like the Volunteers by any means whatsoever.

Nick:                         What do you think the key is to beating the team trashcan?

Andrew:                 Have a dumpster outside. No. Again, offensive line play. I said I wasn’t going to do this shit again this year, Nick. I said we weren’t going to have to, but how does the offensive line play? I don’t know. I just kind of get tired of talking about offensive line play. It’s like, I mean, once again, and I say this, but offensive linemen around the country are able to pass block, damn it. I mean, get some pride in there. I don’t know. I guess it’s kind of like this, Nick, it’s like how many times does Fred Johnson, or how many times does Tyler Jordan have to be kicked in the face on a daily basis before they just say, “You know what, I’m sick of it. I’m sick of getting beat.”

Nick:                         It’s a broken record. We’re just talking about the same things over and over again. I kind of was harsh on my radio spot in Tampa this week. I said, “I don’t know why.” I think you would agree that I kind of never really bought into that whole offensive line stuff all off season.

Andrew:                 Yeah.

Nick:                         I said, “They’re fool’s gold.” It’s the same kids. New coach, who’s been a great recruiter, but had no idea what he was going to be as a coach. Same guys that weren’t good last year. I don’t know why—I say this. If you had a bad offense, and you return everyone on offense, that’s good. Why? They were bad. Why is returning a bad offense, why are they going to be suddenly good, just because experience? It doesn’t work like that.

Andrew:                 Marcus Spears said this in Dallas. He said, “I thought it would be better, because of the continuity there.” I agree with that. I do agree offensive line should be better at continuity, but let’s just face it. It is what it is. Fred Johnson didn’t get smaller. He didn’t learn how to bend more in the off season. Tyler Jordan didn’t get more physical in the off season. I don’t know why, but he didn’t.

I think you and I both, because of how bad the offensive line last year was, we gave more credit than deserved to Jawaan Taylor, and that’s not to say Jawaan’s a bad player, but Jawaan’s still learning how to play right tackle. I just, I don’t know.

At some point or another, and I say this all time, and I feel like a broken record even saying this, but at some point in time an offensive line has to have pride. I mean, at the end of the day, it’s you versus the man across from you. Who’s going to win? Who wants it more? Lately, it hasn’t been the Gators.

Nick:                         Jim McElwain kind of even said that. At some point it’s got to be a pride thing.

Andrew:                 Right. When does it become a pride thing?

Nick:                         At some point you got to look at yourself in the mirror. I don’t know if they blame themselves. At some point you have to just blame yourself, look at yourself in the mirror, and what can I do? What do I have to do to get better?

Andrew:                 At some point or another, as everyone says, the old saying is the first step to fixing something is admitting you’re wrong. They should do that. Yeah. Again, whoever wins the rushing battle probably wins the game. I’ll say that. I just think that that will be a key.

Also, I do think Florida’s defensive line can force Dormady. Dormady’s an okay quarterback at most. Florida could make things miserable for them and put Florida in good field positioning. Guess what? Florida’s offense has a better chance of scoring if they start on their own 30 than they do on their own 10.

Nick:                         So frustrating.

Andrew:                 You know what I’m saying? Do you not agree, defensive line against Dormady could be a key? Cece Jefferson, Jabari, Sherit, those guys. They can have a field day.

Nick:                         Yeah. You look back at some other games during the streak where Josh Dobbs made you work for it. He’s a big old boy. Not only can he run, but he’s 6’ something, and 220 pounds, 230 pounds. Dormady’s more of going back to—blanking on names now, going back to before Dobbs got there, where you had these true passers. Almost kind of sitting ducks back there. I think that is a big key for Florida.

You talk about defensive linemen only having that one tank of gas, but you’ve got six defensive ends to rotate and keep fresh throughout the game. Tennessee’s not going to be rotating their offensive linemen. If you can get pressure on Dormady, who’s still young, only has two games under his belt, if you can get pressure on him, do you rattle him? Then are they making a switch? I think that’s a huge key.

Andrew:                 I do too. I’m going to go with Florida’s defensive line having a good game in this game and causing pressure. I don’t know why, but for some reason, and maybe it’s just me being optimistic and hoping for this, but I think Florida’s offense can rebound, and I think Florida’s defensive line will have a good game. Anything else you want to hit on before we go on to make some predictions for this week?

Nick:                         Let me see. Do you think a loss this week is detrimental to the season?

Andrew:                 Yes.

Nick:                         Last year you proved that you could lose Tennessee and still win the East.

Andrew:                 Yeah, but not start 0-2.

Nick:                         Hasn’t done that since 1971.

Andrew:                 Starting 0-2, first off all the noise is going to be crazy. The noise outside the program’s going to be crazy. Yeah. I think things could go south in a hurry with a loss this weekend.

Nick:                         Okay.

Andrew:                 Agree or disagree?

Nick:                         I think you can make the argument either way.

Andrew:                 Okay.

Nick:                         I don’t think it’s detrimental. I 100% agree the noise outside of the program, oh God. I might just delete my Twitter. Don’t want to hear it. Don’t want to deal with it. But you lose Tennessee, win the rest of your SEC games, and Tennessee’s going to lose to Alabama. 100% fact. Mark it down. They lost to South Carolina last year. South Carolina could beat them. They’ve lost to Vanderbilt a couple times. Vanderbilt could beat them.

Andrew:                 Yeah.

Nick:                         Play Georgia too.

Andrew:                 Vanderbilt could beat a lot of teams. Vanderbilt’s a better team this year.

Nick:                         That Florida-Vanderbilt game’s going to be ugly.

Andrew:                 We’ll see after this weekend.

Nick:                         Florida hasn’t scored more than 20 on Vanderbilt in like four years.

Andrew:                 Homeboy up there, Derek Mason’s a pretty good defensive coordinator.

Nick:                         Yeah.

Andrew:                 Just a little bit of an offense there, and things would be a lot better.

Nick:                         Sounds a lot like Florida.

Andrew:                 Yup. All right, Nick, let’s go. Let’s pick some games. Who you want to pick first?

Nick:                         Let’s save the good game.

Andrew:                 Yeah.

Nick:                         Let’s start LSU at Mississippi State.

Andrew:                 LSU at Mississippi State. Mississippi State’s atrocious this year. They’re a very bad football team. Dan Mullen in the hot seat maybe?

Nick:                         Maybe.

Andrew:                 Why not? What has he done, besides that one year?

Nick:                         Yeah. Dak had him running for a year, but that’s it really.

Andrew:                 Yeah. LSU wins big.

Nick:                         Okay. I’m going to ride with LSU too.

Andrew:                 Okay. Texas at USC. Rematch of the Rose Bowl, who USC’s now claiming never happened. It happened. Dennis Young made that happen.

Nick:                         How are they claiming it never happened?

Andrew:                 Because of the whole probation or whatever, NCAA or whatever, I think is what they’re claiming. Okay. Whatever.

Nick:                         It happened.

Andrew:                 Yeah. It happened all right. Texas still sucks. They still suck. Getting rid of Charlie Strong didn’t do them any good. USC wins big.

Nick:                         I’m agreeing too. USC looks legit this year.

Andrew:                 Yeah. Getting past the team that owned them in Stanford was big for those guys. They should be okay going down the stretch. Yeah. USC wins big. Who you got next?

Nick:                         Kentucky at South Carolina.

Andrew:                 The Wildcats pull off the upset this weekend.

Nick:                         No.

Andrew:                 The Wildcats pull off the upset and have a little momentum.

Nick:                         How? They’re atrocious.

Andrew:                 Still don’t believe in Willy Muschamp.

Nick:                         They’re atrocious. I’m going with the Fighting Kurt Ropers and Mr. Jake Bentley.

Andrew:                 Okay. Whatever. That’s what we do this for. I think Kentucky pulls off the upset, and it’s at Kentucky too, right?

Nick:                         No. Kentucky at South Carolina.

Andrew:                 That may make me redo my pick.

Nick:                         Nope. You’re locked in.

Andrew:                 I’m still going to go Kentucky.

Nick:                         You’re locked in.

Andrew:                 I think Kentucky finds a way this weekend. I don’t know. Probably not, but who knows? Who knows? Let’s see. I’m trying to remember the other game we had here. Is that the last one? No. Ole Miss at Cal. Ole Miss, they’re in a downspin. Cal wins.

Nick:                         Really? I’m going to go with Ole Miss.

Andrew:                 Really? On the road in Cali?

Nick:                         On the road in Cali. I believe in Shay Patterson.

Andrew:                 Okay.

Nick:                         It’s not an SEC. I think they’re really going to struggle in SEC play, but I’m going to take them going back out to Cali, coming home with a W.

Andrew:                 Okay. Maybe so. Let’s go to the big boy of them all, Louisville and Clemson, in Louisville.

Nick:                         What did Louisville versus Clemson last year?

Andrew:                 Louisville won.

Nick:                         Yeah. No, no. They lost. 36-42.

Andrew:                 That’s right.

Nick:                         They were both 4-0 coming into the game.

Andrew:                 That’s right. Clemson scored late.

Nick:                         In Death Valley.

Andrew:                 This one’s in Death Valley? I thought this one was in Louisville.

Nick:                         Sorry, at Papa John’s Stadium.

Andrew:                 Yeah. I’m going to go Louisville. I don’t believe in Kelly Bryant for Clemson.

Nick:                         You don’t?

Andrew:                 Then again, man, that front seven of Clemson.

Nick:                         It’s nasty. Nasty. Lamar Jackson kind of just did his thing last year.

Andrew:                 I’m going to stick with my pick. Louisville wins.

Nick:                         This is tough. I’ll go with them too. Lamar Jackson had three touchdowns last year and I think four this year.

Andrew:                 Okay. I was saying three passing, and at least one rushing. Yeah. Clemson just doesn’t have the offense. Louisville wins this weekend. Now the big one, Florida-Tennessee, in the Swamp. Gators go 0-2, or 1-1?

Nick:                         You can go first.

Andrew:                 Oh no.

Nick:                         You’ve already given up your pick.

Andrew:                 Go ahead.

Nick:                         I think, we had somebody remind us, or go back and check it. We both picked Florida last year. I said, “I’m not picking Tennessee until they show me, they do it.” You’ll hear me say that next week. I’m not picking Kentucky until they actually win a game. Does that mean I pick Florida now?

Andrew:                 You tell me.

Nick:                         Does that mean I pick Tennessee now? I’m going with the Gators. I think what we talked about with the defensive line is going to be key, and then you’re going to rattle the quarterback in Dormady. I think that helps the secondary. I’m going to go Florida.

Andrew:                 Any other? Is it a big win? 10 points?

Nick:                         No. It’ll be close. It’ll be within 10 points.

Andrew:                 Florida, 31. Tennessee, 14.

Nick:                         That’d be a big win. It might take Florida a month to score 31 points though.

Andrew:                 Florida, 31. Tennessee, 14. Tennessee is just, they’re trashcans. Never, ever pick Butch to win a game that is going to be close. Butch is not a Saturday football coach. He’s a Friday night, or a Thursday middle school football coach. Do not put faith in a man who carries a garbage can around.

Nick:                         Well, he doesn’t actually carry it, but he does support it.

Andrew:                 He supports it. He carries it. He lets his team carry the damn thing around, a garbage can.

Nick:                         There’s no excuse.

Andrew:                 No excuse. The man makes $3 million, $4 million, whatever a year. He’s not a garbage man.

Nick:                         No excuse.

Andrew:                 No excuse. All right. You get to pick first this week. Who you got as your first player to shine this week?

Nick:                         First player, we talked about that trash running defense, so my first player is Lamical Perine, which probably means Mark Thompson will get 30 carries this week.

Andrew:                 Oh, Lord. Can they just trade Mark Thompson for the trashcan? I’d rather Florida carry a trashcan around than have to watch that guy on 3rd down. Good grief. His pass blocking’s atrocious. First pick for me, and I kind of gave my pick away, I think Feleipe has a big week. I think he finally shines this week. Tennessee’s going to load the box up trying to stop that run. Florida’s going to be able to go play action, and he’s going to hit my second pick, my next pick, with at least one touchdown this week. First pick for me is Feleipe Franks.

Nick:                         I kind of alluded to my second pick when we were talking about the pass rush, and that’s you get less time to throw, and now maybe you’re getting rushed passes. I think Duke Dawson has a big game, leads the secondary in tackles, and comes with another pick.

Andrew:                 Does he score?

Nick:                         I don’t think he scores this one. He’s going to break the streak.

Andrew:                 He’s going to break the streak. There you go. That’s a good one. My pick is going to be Tyrie Cleveland. He, in my opinion, showed everyone last week, or two weeks ago, why he is the guy that can replace Antonio Callaway. Tyrie Cleveland with at least one touchdown this week. I’m proud of Tyrie. Bounced back from that episode as a freshman. Proud of him.

Nick:                         Okay. My third pick is going to be Jabari Zuniga. I think he comes away with a couple sacks, couple sacks on the day. It’s going to be big, and I think you hit on it really well, getting that pressure, and I think the rotation of the guys, it’s got to be somebody. It’s almost hard to distinguish picking a guy. Last week no one heard it, but I picked Jordan Sherit, and you’re almost kind of picking out of a hat. Like, I guess him. It’s hard to pick out who you think is going to be the standout when you’ve got six guys.

Andrew:                 Yeah. My next pick’s Cece Jefferson.

Nick:                         There it is.

Andrew:                 Cece. He’s going to have a big one. He had a good game against Michigan. We just didn’t talk about it. He’s going to have a big game. Cece Jefferson’s going to have a big game. Two sacks for Cece this week, and a couple tackles for loss. Cece eats this week.

Nick:                         Eating like he’s at Yamado.

Andrew:                 If you say so. If you say so. The loser this week, Nick, is the trashcan.

Nick:                         Boy.

Andrew:                 Butch.

Nick:                         I hope after the game we’re not saying Tennessee needs to leave that trashcan, so we can put the offense in it.

Andrew:                 I don’t know.

Nick:                         Win or lose, I will be writing about a trashcan.

Andrew:                 Win or lose. There you go. All right, Nick. Listen, if you guys haven’t joined us yet, hit us up. We got some special deals to come on, and we’ll hopefully be back to normal next week with Monday, Wednesday, Friday podcast. Sorry for all that. As you guys know, this week just was kind of crazy. Nick, tell everybody where they can find us. We’ll see everyone on Saturday in the Swamp. Big visitor’s weekend. I guess I should run through that real quick, Nick.

Nick:                         Yeah. Run through it.

Andrew:                 Couple big names coming into town are William Barnes, also Trey Hill, the big offensive lineman, receiver Anthony Schwartz is coming into town. There’s also a chance that Andrew Chatfield may make it in, the big defensive end that decommitted from Ohio State, from American Heritage. So that would be a big one to have in as well. Big weekend. Not as big as you usually expect, just because there’s a lot of traveling issues. If you can get the big man, Trey Hill, the offensive lineman from Warner Robins, Georgia, 6’4”, 346 pounds, Nick, you might be looking at your starting offensive lineman next year.

Nick:                         Yeah. That’s a tough trip coming north to south.

Andrew:                 Yeah. You and I talked about it. I’m not going to be able to make the trip this weekend, and kind of upset about it. I like watching the Vols cry. The cons overweigh the pros. Better needs for gas than me traveling to a football game.

Nick:                         Yeah. There’s a lot of stuff, road closures, lot of stuff going on.

Andrew:                 Yeah. Sorry, guys, that I won’t make it this weekend. We’ll be back. Don’t worry. I’ll be trash talking Tennessee during the game. Don’t worry about that. Now, Nick, tell everybody where they can find us. We’ll be here. We’ll be ready on Saturday, and then on Sunday we’ll be recapping it all.

Nick:                         You know where it is. www.GatorCountry.com for all your Florida Gator news. The podcast is there in audio and transcript form, as well as all updates throughout each and every week. You can find us on social media. Do your like and retweet thing there. It’s @GatorCountry on Facebook and Twitter, @TheGatorCountry, double tap there on Instagram. You can find me, @NickdelaTorreGC, and him, @AndrewSpiveyGC.

Andrew:                 There you go. Guys, we appreciate it so much. Look forward to a good game day and everything. Guys, as always, we appreciate it. Chomp, chomp. Go Braves. Butch, you still suck, and that garbage can’s going to be used for you this weekend.

Nick:                         You stay classy, Gator Country.

Andrew Spivey
Andrew always knew he wanted to be involved with sports in some capacity. He began by coaching high school football for six years before deciding to pursue a career in journalism. While coaching, he was a part of two state semifinal teams in the state of Alabama. Given his past coaching experience, he figured covering recruiting would be a perfect fit. He began his career as an intern for Rivals.com, covering University of Florida football recruiting. After interning with Rivals for six months, he joined the Gator Country family as a recruiting analyst. Andrew enjoys spending his free time on the golf course and watching his beloved Atlanta Braves. Follow him on Twitter at @AndrewSpiveyGC.