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GC brings you a new podcast as we bring you our Friday prediction podcast for the Florida Gators during the bye week.

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GC brings you a new podcast as we recap the Florida Gators win over Vanderbilt on Saturday in Nashville.

GatorCountry brings you our Friday prediction podcast as we preview the Florida Gators game against Vanderbilt on Saturday in Nashville.

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we continue to preview the Florida Gators vs. Vanderbilt game on Saturday in Nashville.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre are joined by Adam Sparks of the Tennessean to get his thoughts on the game and the keys for both teams.

Andrew and Nick also continue to breakdown the game and give you their keys, plus they talk more about recruiting for the Florida Gators.

TRANSCRIPT will be available this afternoon.

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we recap the Florida Gators win over LSU on Saturday afternoon in the Swamp.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre breakdown how the Gators got the win on Saturday and what the win means to the program.

Andrew and Nick also breakdown the play of Feleipe Franks and how the game helped the Gators in recruiting.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country. Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, biggest win in the Swamp in how long? It’s bigger than the Ole Miss game a few years ago.

Nick:                         Biggest since them, for sure. If you say bigger than that, you’d probably have to go back to ’08.

Andrew:                 FSU game?

Nick:                         Yeah. Probably have to go back to those years to find a bigger win.

Andrew:                 It’s a big one, and, Nick, it’s a big one for so many reasons. Listen, the Ole Miss game would be so much bigger if the weeks following didn’t entitle what they did. I think you and I both would agree that the storybook of that year and the years to follow would be much different had Will Grier not gone down. In calling this game bigger, it’s crossing my fingers and knocking on wood that something isn’t stirring down the road here coming up for Florida. I don’t think so. Would be shocked if it was.

For me, Nick, it’s just a turning point. I think for the first time in a long time the national perception of Florida is getting back again. The perception on the recruiting trail is getting back again. The fanbase is always there, but I think fanbase even needs it more so than everyone. Nick, I’ll just say this again. We’ve talked about this over and over again, but the play calling and the work Dan Mullen does Sunday through Friday is crazy. Watch the Tennessee game, watch the Mississippi State game, watch the LSU game, and you don’t see the same game plan.

Nick:                         Yeah. Going to your perception, I think everyone on Game Day picked LSU. You picked LSU.

Andrew:                 No, I did not.

Nick:                         You picked LSU. It’s on the podcast. It was on the podcast Friday. You picked LSU. Everyone heard it. I picked Florida. I think you’ll start seeing some of that sway. Here’s a question for you too. I’ll answer it truthfully. Where did you think Florida would be, record wise, heading into Vanderbilt?

Andrew:                 Before or after Kentucky?

Nick:                         Before. Before the season started.

Andrew:                 Before the season started, I had the Mississippi State game as a loss, and I had the LSU game as a tossup. I didn’t have them losing to Kentucky. So, I would say one or two losses is where I had them. I thought that the State game was going to be an L, knowing what we did at the beginning of the year, just talent wise and that kind of stuff. Then I thought that LSU game was going to be a tossup game.

Nick:                         You had them at one, maybe two losses. You had them at 5-1 or 4-2.

Andrew:                 Yeah.

Nick:                         Where did you have them after that Kentucky loss? At that point, they’re 1-1.

Andrew:                 After the Kentucky loss, I had them with three losses. That’s straight up. I had them losing to State, and I had them losing to LSU. There was no chance in hell that I thought Florida was going to go to State and beat State, and I definitely didn’t think, after watching LSU beat Miami and Auburn, that Florida would beat LSU. I just did not. Nick, go ahead and say yours as well, and then I’ll hit my point of what I was going to say next.

Nick:                         I think, before the year, I had LSU and Mississippi State as losses. I probably had them at two losses, and then right with you, probably had them at three losses after the Kentucky loss.

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

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down their keys for both teams on offense and defense in Saturday’s game, plus we talk about the visitors expected in Gainesville on Saturday.

Andrew and Nick also give you their three players to watch in the game on Saturday, plus pick several games around the country.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, this week flew by. It’s Friday. LSU time. Let’s go.

Nick:                         Big week. It’s undefeated #5 ranked LSU versus a 4-1 Florida. Gators are feeling good about themselves, having won back to back games on the road, including at Mississippi State last week in the Mullen Bowl. Big game. I think it’s a big game for a number of reasons. Obviously, with it being #5 team. I’ve been doing a bunch of Louisiana and Baton Rouge and New Orleans radio this week, and all of them have asked me is this a rivalry game? I wanted to ask you that.

Andrew:                 I think it’s turned into it. Someone asked me that too this week. They said, Florida’s not the rivalry that it is between LSU and Alabama or LSU with even Arkansas in the past. I said, I think that used to be the case, but every since that hurricane fiasco, this is a rivalry, and it’s a hated rivalry between one another. It goes from the top of the chain in Scott Strickland and Jeremy Foley before to the top of the chain over at LSU. It goes all the way to the players. This is a rivalry. There’s no love lost. Especially with some of the recruits Florida’s been able to take away from LSU, that LSU’s been able to take away from Florida at the last minute. This is a rivalry, Nick.

Nick:                         That’s what I said. I said I don’t think it’s the same level as Florida-Tennessee, Florida-Georgia, or Florida-FSU, but I would probably put it at four now. Now, I would put Miami ahead of them, but that’s an every year kind of thing. I think, if we’re talking about it next year, when Florida opens in Miami and we’re previewing that game, I’d probably say I think this Florida-Miami game is more of a rivalry, just because of the history, than Florida-LSU. I say it is a rivalry.

Andrew:                 See, I say it might even be more than Tennessee lately, just because of how bad Tennessee has been.

Nick:                         I still think, when I’m thinking of rivalries, it’s not just how competitive it is. I think a Florida fan would take a loss to LSU better than they would take a loss to Tennessee. That’s kind of how I look at it when I think in terms of rivalry. Do you hate, hate, hate that school? Do you hate everything about them, their colors, losing to them, their fight song?

Andrew:                 Right. I’m with you.

Nick:                         We talk about Tennessee it’s damn Rocky Top, that creamsicle orange, their hillbilly fans. I think there’s more of a respect with LSU than there is with the other schools. I’m sure I’ll get tweets on Friday saying you’re wrong, I don’t respect them. But I think there’s more of a respect factor between LSU and Florida than there is against Florida and Tennessee.

Andrew:                 I’m with you on that. It’s just for me I think it’s a personal thing. Not me personally, but it’s a personal thing for Florida with the way the whole hurricane thing went about and all of that. I think that’s a personal factor. I’ll say this though, Nick. This might be the most physical rivalry.

Nick:                         Yes.

Andrew:                 This dates back to Urban and even Spurrier. I mean, you go back to the Urban games where LSU converted six 4th downs, or you had Florida converting the 4th downs. The Tebow phone calls.

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we continue to preview the Florida Gators vs. LSU game on Saturday afternoon in the Swamp.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre are joined by James Moran of Tiger Rag to get his take on the game and his keys for LSU and Florida.

Andrew and Nick also breakdown what their keys are in this game and how the Gators match-up with LSU.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:​What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, it’s Wednesday before Gators and LSU. Biggest game in the Swamp since the Old Miss game, Nick?

Nick:​It has to be. It has to be. First time a top five opponent has been in the Swamp since, I almost said Mississippi State, since that game, since that Ole Miss game. Yeah.

Andrew:​I think so too. I think that when you back, and you look at big games, that was probably the biggest game under Mac, and it was a game that you and I, I remember clearly, said Florida didn’t have much of a chance to win, and Will Grier goes out and just dominates that game. That was kind of the moment that everyone thought was going to be the turning point, and then we all know what happens two weeks later with Will.

Still, you think about big games in the Swamp, and they really haven’t been there. This is a top 20 matchup, top 22 matchup, whatever Florida is ranked. Huge atmosphere. The schedule at home is weak this year, so this is the biggest game already, and then it’s even bigger. Listen, the goals for Florida to have a good season are out there. Do they get to Atlanta? Who knows? We’ll see. You think about this, Nick. I just was putting this question to someone. Just, for instance, Florida wins this game. You think they can probably beat Vandy. The Missouri game is winnable. The South Carolina game is winnable. Idaho and Florida State games are winnable. You win this game, and you go into every game except the Georgia game with a chance to win.

Nick:​They’re going to kill you for that one, Spivey.

Andrew:​You know what I mean.

Nick:​Yeah. Going back to your first point, when you look at the home schedule, this is probably the only game you even look at and say that’s what I’m paying my season ticket for. My entire season ticket, whatever that price was, that’s basically my ticket for the LSU game, because you’re not really moving the needle for Charleston Southern, Kentucky, Colorado State, Missouri, South Carolina, and Idaho. Not really moving the needle there.

Andrew:​It’s that every other year.

Nick:​That’s what has to happen, because of Georgia. Next year is not going be a huge, great home slate, but you start with that neutral game in Miami. Then next year you get Florida State at home. You get Tennessee at home, and you get Vanderbilt at home.

Andrew:​Right. Exactly. I mean, it’s the game. Like I said, for me, Nick, this is a signature game for Dan Mullen. I already put one in the column for last week, because to win that game for Dan Mullen was huge. To win this game is even bigger. This is the game to get you back on the national stage. Listen, the Gators are for real. Here’s my thing, Nick. We’re going to talk to James here in a minute, from LSU, about this, but I think you can agree with me, Nick, that there’s still some debate on how good LSU is. That Miami win doesn’t look as great as it did on paper that day. Ole Miss is trash. You know what I’m saying? This is an opportunity for Florida to get a big win against LSU, against a team that is still not battle tested.

Nick:​I think that’s one of the main questions I wanted to ask James. Obviously, he’s tuned into everything going on down there in Baton Rouge, and the Miami win probably doesn’t look as good. I mean, 33-17. First off, the game wasn’t even that close.

Andrew:​Right.

Nick:​Then you beat Auburn. I think Auburn is still a good win. They beat Auburn by a point. I think that’s a really goodwin.