GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we bring you our Friday predictions for the Florida Gators vs. Tennessee game on Saturday night.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre breakdown their keys for the Gators against Tennessee on both offense and defense.

Andrew and Nick also give you three players to watch for Florida on Saturday, plus predict other games around the country.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:​What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. It’s hate week, Nick. Tennessee hate week that is. We’re at Friday for our prediction podcast. Time for the Gators to go up to Neyland and get some revenge.

Nick:​Last time they were there didn’t end well.

Andrew:​No. You and I were making fun of fans for leaving at halftime.

Nick:​Yeah.

Andrew:​So it’s your fault.

Nick:​It’s my fault. It’s always my fault. That was a fun trip. To me, I’m looking forward to making this trip, because I think that stadium is going to be wild. It’s Florida week. They always get up for Florida week, but a night game, give those people 12 hours, 10 hours, however long it is, to tailgate, drink some adult beverages before they go. I think that’s going to be a packed stadium, and the stadium is going to smell like booze.

Andrew:​I’m eager to see that, to see how that crowd is. I’m with you in that I think it will be a good crowd. A lot like Florida fans, and that is they believe, and they’re giving time to Jeremy Pruitt just like Florida fans are giving time and supporting Dan Mullen. I do, I think that that’s going to be a rocking crowd for that game. Tennessee’s stadium is definitely astadium that can get loud. That game you and I were at two years ago, where Tennessee came from behind to win, got loud at times as well.

I think it’s a challenge to the team to go into this. Their first hostile crowd, first road game. How does all that go? How does Feleipe Franks make his checks? How does the line go about that? On the defensive side of the ball, have to get their checks in and that kind of stuff. Of course, it’ll be quiet when the defense is out there. It’s a road game. It’s a different atmosphere. You’re in a hotel after plan ride, all that good stuff. How are you going to adjust to all that? Questions, but none of these guys, for the most part, will be making their first road trip, so it should be business as usual.

Nick:​Before we break into the game, I want to ask you a little bit about the betting line.

Andrew:​Okay.

Nick:​So, it opened at Florida -6. Florida’s the six-point favorite. The line has shifted about a point and a half, to 4.5. What do you think? I think a lot of people were surprised when the line opened at six.

Andrew:​I told someone, I did my radio show on Monday with Mark Moses down there in the Tampa area, and he was talking to me about it. He said, can you believe it, six points? I said, yes and no. I guess I get it, because somebody had to be favored. Basically, you were saying Florida was a nine-point favorite, because you get three points for being the home team. Did they expect Florida to be nine points better than Tennessee? That was kind of where I was at.

​I guess, I get the point of Florida being favored, just because of Tennessee not really looking good, even in their cupcake games, but to end up being a nine-point favorite? That was kind of misleading, in my opinion. This game is never a blowout.

Nick:​Right.

Andrew:​What was your thoughts?

Nick:​Maybe I’m just down on Tennessee. I don’t think they’re very good.

Andrew:​I think they’re awful.

Nick:​Yeah. I was talking to a friend on Sunday, before the line came out, and he asked me, where do you think it’ll be? I think it’ll be at 5.5 or 6. So, I hit the nail on the head. I think six is a fair number. If I was a betting man, I’d probably take Florida -4.5, but we’ll get into our prediction later,