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.