GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we bring you our Friday prediction podcast before the Florida Gators take on Mississippi State on Saturday night.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre breakdown the game and what their keys are for both teams on Saturday and what the Gators need to do in order to get a win on Saturday.

Andrew and Nick also give you their three players to watch for the Gators, plus pick the top games around the country.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, Friday before the cowbells. Are you ready for the headache of the cowbells?

Nick:                         I think I’m going to bring earplugs. I don’t think I’m ready for it. Some of the other writers that are going to the game have talked about being ready for it. I think they’re just full of it. I’ve heard cowbells once or twice in my lifetime and don’t care to have 60,000 of them being rung around me.

Andrew:                 I would much rather hear cowbells than that dumb Rocky Top.

Nick:                         No. That’s just wrong.

Andrew:                 No. That’s just right. That’s just your opinion, your flawed opinion. Nick, we all know that inside you like Rocky Top. It’s okay. But Rocky Top sucks.

Nick:                         No.

Andrew:                 It does. I was doing a radio show this week, Nick, with some Mississippi State guys. They continued to talk about the whole narrative with Dan Mullen, and they asked me something, Nick, and this is weird to say. The players are Florida are the least talked about people going into a football game that they have to play. All you hear about is Mississippi State players, how they’re going to react to Dan Mullen, how Dan Mullen is going to react to their players, and the Dan Mullen versus Joe Moorhead. When you take that narrative, the guys should be going in pretty free. They haven’t been talked about all this week this week. It was something that I didn’t really think about until it was brought to my attention. The guys are really the only ones that are really not talked about this week.

Nick:                         I think that’s what Mullen kind of said on Monday. He liked that narrative, because it kind of put the pressure on him and took the pressure off of his team. I think that’s what you’re talking about now and what we’re kind of seeing.

Andrew:                 Again, it’s going to be a hostile environment. It’s going to be a game that is going to be physical. It’s going to be a game that I think probably goes into the fourth quarter, or at least into the second half, in my opinion, I think both of them come out, and it would not surprise me to see both teams make some early mistakes as they try to get out to an early lead, as the adrenaline is coming about. This may be more on the side of Mississippi State. Wouldn’t surprise me at all to see Nick Fitzgerald come out and commit a big turnover, or turn that momentum into a big touchdown. Lord forbid if that happens. That stadium may fall down because of the atmosphere there.

Nick, I just go back to this. I’ll say it again, and I’ll say it again on Saturday. Whichever team can be more physical on the line of scrimmage on Saturday is going to win this football game.

Nick:                         If you say that, I don’t think it bodes well for Florida.

Andrew:                 Okay. Let me ask you this. I’m not saying that you’re saying I’m wrong, because I know, I’m pretty sure that you agree with me in some capacity that the physicality is going to win this football game. If physicality is not the number one key for you, what is?

Nick:                         No. I think that’s where this game is won or lost. I just don’t think that’s good for Florida.

Andrew:                 I agree. It’s not good. But this is what I said on Wednesday,