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

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre are joined by Jen Smith of the Lexington Herald-Leader as we ask her to give her thoughts on the game and tells us more about Kentucky.

Andrew and Nick also continue to talk about the game and recap what Dan Mullen had to say Monday at his press conference in Gainesville.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, we’re back. We got our Wednesday guest coming up, as we preview the Kentucky wildcats coming to the Swamp this Saturday night at 7:30 again.

Nick:                         Jen Smith will join us. She covers Kentucky for the Lexington Herald Leader, and she does a great job there. She was with Mark Stoops yesterday as he was talking about Florida, and she’ll give us a preview of what the Cats are looking like, what Benny Snell, who told us that he’s the best running back in the SEC, had a great Week 1, what he’s looking like, and if they can prove Chauncey Gardner wrong and stop that streak at 31 and not let it get to 32.

Andrew:                 After we talk to her, I’m going to praise Chauncey Gardner. That hasn’t happened very often. It’s another good week. Listen, I just don’t think that this the Kentucky team of the last few years. I think it’s a good Kentucky team, but I don’t think it’s as good of a Kentucky team. I know this is a better Florida football team than it was last year and the year before last. I know it’s a much more disciplined team as well. Going to talk about that.

Then, Nick, we’re going to talk about that FSU debacle. We’re going to talk about Willie Taggert falling on his face on the dance floor.

Nick:                         Well, let’s get to Jen, and then we can get to that.

Andrew:                 Let’s get to her real quick. We’ll get her thoughts on Kentucky, and then we’ll move on to more important business.

Nick:                         We’re joined now by Jen Smith of the Lexington Herald Leader. Jen, thank you so much. I think our listeners are looking forward to hearing from you.

Jen:                           Thanks. I appreciate you having me on.

Nick:                         I see on Twitter you just found, I guess, Florida’s interesting section of the media guide talking about the streak. I guess we’ll get our streak talk over with quickly.

Jen:                           We can do that. It’s interesting that both coaches yesterday sort of decided to say the streak has nothing to do with this current team and this current year. I guess, Florida’s, what is he, a nickel back, decided to immediately say, it’s going to be 32 wins. I think that will probably be a little bit of a motivating factor for Kentucky, but it’ll be interesting to see if any of us are still alive when the streak ends.

Nick:                         Yeah. That’s Chauncey Gardner. Andrew and I call him the Mouth of the South. It was not surprising to anyone who follows Gator sports that it would be Chauncey Gardner guaranteeing a victory.

Andrew:                 If you talk to anyone, just tell them don’t take him serious. Whatever he says just laugh at him and move on. First of all, he won’t back up his talk.

Jen:                           It’s interesting, because Benny Snell, Kentucky’s running back, has a bit of a chip on his shoulder about just about everything, and last week the running back for Central Michigan said that he’d never heard of Benny Snell, and then Benny Snell, despite having a 102-degree temperature, decided to have a pretty decent game. Then the defense was sort of upset that he’d never heard of Benny Snell, so they tried to target him. Not target as in like bad stuff, but they really tried to make sure that he was held under his average.