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GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we preview the Florida Gators vs. LSU game on Saturday afternoon in the Swamp. Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down the key match-ups in this game, plus how they think Florida can jump out early against LSU. Andrew and Nick also predict several games around the country, plus pick three players to watch for this week’s game against the Tigers. TRANSCRIPT:   Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, almost LSU week, and it wouldn’t be LSU week if there wasn’t another freaking hurricane. Joe Alleva, what are you doing? Nick:                         Kind of came out of nowhere, dude. Not really, that area, Nate, is that what it’s called? Andrew:                 Yeah. Nick:                         That area doesn’t really hit us normally. Andrew:                 Yeah. It’s usually one of those things where that one pops up, one of those little things pop up, and it runs through Costa Rica or runs through Mexico. It very rarely you see one pop up and then travel up to affect the inlands and the States and stuff like that. That’s that. Good news is Joe Alleva has nothing to back out, because Baton Rouge may be hit harder than Gainesville. Joe, don’t even start. Nick:                         LSU’s already played all their non-conference games. There’s no easy solution if you were to cancel a game, which I don’t think they’re going to cancel it. We talked to Jim McElwain Wednesday after practice, and he didn’t even know there was a storm. Andrew:                 There’s zero percent chance the game gets cancelled. Gainesville’s not going to be affected. I was just making more of a joke on that. Nick, what in the world happened on Ed Orgeron’s call in show? Holy crap. Nick:                         Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Muschamp have live call ins for a minute? Andrew:                 Yeah. So does McElwain. Nick:                         Those are heavily screened. I feel like there’s no way they were screening Ed Orgeron’s calls. Some guy calls in and says that Joe Alleva is too feminine. Andrew:                 That is so awesome, because, I mean, first of all, I wouldn’t use feminine. I would use a very derogatory term when I mention Joe Alleva. The funny thing is is my text messages start flooding with, “People are really seeing Joe Alleva now.” Then the next caller calls in and says Orgeron doesn’t deserve the job, and Orgeron has to say, “I deserve the job.” First of all, any time you have to be your own guy to prop up your own self, you know the drill, Nick. Nick:                         Do you feel bad for Coach O at all? Andrew:                 Do I feel bad for O? Nick:                         For O. Andrew:                 Hell, no, I don’t feel bad for O. Man weaseled his way into the job. Nick:                         That’s not his fault. Andrew:                 Isn’t his fault, but the guy sucks. The guy’s an awful coach. How in the world he got the job in the first place is beyond me. I mean, is he a good recruiter? Sure, as a defensive line coach. I mean, no, I don’t feel bad for O. The guy’s a bozo. That’s how you talk. The joke running on the TV show was did they have a translator to intercept what he was saying to make it go back out clearly. Nick:                         I think people down there understand him. Andrew:                 Some do. Some don’t. Nick:                         I think that’s scary that they understand him. I have no idea what he’s saying. Andrew:                 Here’s the thing I will say, Nick, and that is we can laugh it about it all you want to, but all this talk is doing nothing but fueling LSU. Nick:                         Which talk?

GatorCountry.com brings you a new podcast as we have Ross Dellenger of The Advocate on the show to help us preview Florida Gators vs. LSU on Saturday. Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down the game with Dellenger as we ask him the tough questions about the state of the Tigers program. Andrew and Nick also discuss the latest injury news for Florida, plus how the Gators can get the offense going. TRANSCRIPT: Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, LSU week. LSU, they may be bad, but it’s still LSU week, bud. It’s still LSU week. Nick:                         Yeah. Players are saying the right things this week. Not taking the bait. Not talking about last year and is there any emotion that spills over from last year and this and that. No. It’s we’re focused on this team. It’s two completely different teams. They’re saying the right things, although they’re lying through their teeth, because there is definitely some emotion carrying over from last year. Andrew:                 Exactly. It’ll be interesting to see. I tell people this, and I don’t think that people are listening to me, but LSU was overlooking Troy. They had guys sitting out in the game. Is LSU a good football team? Absolutely not. I think as bad as things looked on Saturday against Troy, absolutely not. But there’s disaster down in Baton Rouge. Nick:                         Yeah. They’ve got some issues. We’re going to talk to Ross Dellenger from The Advocate about that. They’ve got a whole heap of issues. Starting with their head coach, how much money it would take to fire their head coach. Andrew:                 Here’s the thing, Nick. Hold on. I hate to interrupt you, but now he’s telling the offensive coordinator what he can and can’t run. Oh, just a year ago you were the defensive line coach, and now you’re going to be telling Matt Canada, who is widely considered one of the smartest guys, not to run motions and shifts and all this other stuff? This is starting to turn into Will Muschamp. Nick:                         It’s certainly, to me, it was a peculiar hire, and then when you look at the contract, I think it makes it even a worse hire. Andrew:                 All I know is I want Coach O’s agent to be my agent, because if anybody can talk a team, first of all, can talk a team into hiring you. Second of all, talk a team into hiring you and then giving you a $12 million buyout. Man, that guy was smart. Nick:                         Yeah. Props to his agent. Andrew:                 That was some Jimmy Sexton move. That was some good stuff. I mean, that was like a Scott Boras move in baseball. Nick:                         I don’t know what Joe Alleva was thinking. He probably wasn’t thinking, because that seems par for the course for Joe Alleva. Andrew:                 There you go. You just said Joe Alleva and thinking in one sentence. That just threw off your whole argument there. Our good buddy, Ross, he does a great job over there in Baton Rouge covering the Tigers. We’ll talk to him. We’re going to ask him a few questions about the team. You know I’m going to ask him about O and his $12 million contract. Let’s just go on to Mr. Dellenger, and then we’ll come back, and we’ll talk injuries and all that good shnaz here in just a second. All right, guys, we’re back with Ross. Ross, we appreciate you joining us for another year. It’s been fun. The rivalry is finally fun again, I think. S3                               Yeah. Definitely. It’s got a lot of intrigue to it. There’s no doubt. It’s just all, you got the baseball stuff, hurricane stuff last year, and it seems like there’s certainly a lot of storylines heading into this one. Andrew:                 Before we brought you on the air, we jokingly said that it kind of seems that the two teams are a little bit the same...

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we recap the Florida Gators win over Vanderbilt on Saturday afternoon in the Swamp. Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down how the Gators won the game on Saturday behind a strong rushing game and with Felipe Franks. Andrew and Nick break down the positives from the win and the negatives from the win and look ahead to next week’s game against LSU. PODCAST: Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, this is about to be one of my most favorite podcasts in the entire time of you and I doing a podcast. Nick:                         Why is that? Andrew:                 Na, na, na, na. Hey, hey, hey. Butch is gone, man. There is no other way to say it, my friend. Did he just look like a man who had got run over by a tractor on Saturday? He had no answer. Nick:                         He did get run over by a tractor. Andrew:                 Well, he got run over by Chubb. Nick:                         41-0 at home to Georgia. Is there another way just to have it shown that you don’t belong? Clearly Georgia right now is playing the best of any SEC team, or any SEC East team, excuse me. Don’t want to disrespect the Alabama machine, which is outscoring the rest of the SEC 150-something to 3. Clearly Georgia’s been playing the best of any team in the East, followed by Florida. That was just a you don’t belong. Andrew:                 Yeah. Here’s the thing, Nick. You want to talk about the state of the SEC first, or do you want to get into the game first? You want to just have a quick discussion on this first? Nick:                         Let’s do this. We’re already here. Andrew:                 This is where I’m at with the SEC and college football. Maybe I’m just wrong, but it’s a bad year for college football. Alabama’s kicking everyone’s ass. Do I think Alabama is very, very good? Absolutely. Do I think they’re 130-something to nothing good? No. On an average year they’re probably not. It’s the same thing with Georgia. Let’s remember, Georgia barely snuck by a bad Notre Dame team. I think Georgia’s a good football team. Are they the #8 team in the country? No. I’m not believing that. I’m not believing in Fromm. They’re running a team once again that has a quarterback that doesn’t just look like a punter in Bryce Ramsey usually. I think in general college football is down. You look at USC, and you can make the argument USC could have lost three straight games. you look at Oklahoma, they look really good one week, and then the next week they kind of struggle. Oklahoma State looked like a powerhouse for a while. Ohio State was supposed to be a good team. They’re just absolutely struggling. We all make fun of FSU, and rightfully so, but, I mean, should they really be struggling with a backup quarterback against Wake? I just think college football in general is down this year. Nick:                         It could be. I disagree with you. I am all in on Fromm. I think Georgia’s got a real deal defense too. Andrew:                 I think they got a good defense, absolutely. I think they got a real deal defense. I agree with that. Nick:                         You’ve got a real deal defense. You’ve got two great running backs, and a freshman quarterback who’s not playing like a freshman. Andrew:                 Yeah. I don’t know. I’m not sold that Fromm is that guy yet. I think they’re a very good football team. Zero doubt in my mind. They are playing the best of the SEC East. That is no question about that whatsoever. Wouldn’t disagree with that. For some reason, I just think the SEC is down in general. My God, think about the guys, Nick. Hello, Ed Orgeron. Hello, Butch Jones. Hello, Will Muschamp. Hello, Kevin Sumlin. Am I missing anyone? Who else? There’s got to be more.

GatorCountry.com brings you a new podcast as we preview the Florida Gators vs. Vanderbilt game on Saturday afternoon. Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down the key match-ups in this game and answer your questions about the team. Andrew and Nick also predict the big games this week, plus Florida’s game and also give you our three players to watch in the game. TRANSCRIPT: Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, another Friday prediction podcast. That means another game day is right around the corner. Gators-Commodores. Noon Eastern time in the Swamp on Saturday. It figures to be a good game. Nick:                         Everyone complains about noon games except for us. I love noon games. Andrew:                 I do too. It’s one of those things where you can get what you need to get done done. What figures to be a sloppy football game can be put to rest with a good day of other football. Nick:                         Yeah. So many times, listen, we have a cool job, but when Florida plays at 3:00, I’m only really watching the Florida game that day. Everyone else is tailgating, and they’re watching whatever while they’re tailgating. I’m kind of in the stadium mulling around doing some work. Then the game goes on. When Florida plays at 3:30 on CBS, I’m not watching any other 3:30 games. I’m watching Florida. Then after the game I’m interviewing and writing stories and casually, maybe, glancing up and getting to see some of the prime-time games. 3:30 game, CBS, ends at 7:00, 7:30. I’m not leaving the stadium probably until 10:30, 11:00pm. Most of the games are done. I don’t get to see anything. With a noon game, all these beautiful prime-time games, Alabama-Ole Miss on ESPN, Clemson-Virginia Tech. I get to watch some of these this week. I’m all about a nooner. Andrew:                 Maybe everyone won’t be in cardiac arrest this week. Nick:                         I joked with Nick Washington about that. I think it’s a real question about how do you bounce back from two emotional wins. A lot of coaches would talk about it as when you play a game like that you kind of empty the bucket, and you empty the bucket emotionally and physically. What’s left in the bucket after doing that two weeks? It’s a noon kick, which is different for players. They’re probably not as excited about a noon kick as I am. What’s left in that bucket this week? Andrew:                 Yeah. They struggle all the time with noons, and that’s just a struggle that it is. It’ll be a test. Like I said, it’ll be a test, because there is going to be a good game, because I do, I think this is always a game. Everyone kind of made fun of Mac. Nick:                         A good game, or a close game? Andrew:                 A close game. Nick:                         Okay. Andrew:                 Never a good game. I don’t remember the last Vandy-Florida game that was a good game. A close game. Everyone made fun of Mac on Wednesday when he said, “This is always a battle.” Our good friend, Zach, over at SEC Country, he threw some stats out there talking about the number of times it was a one score game with Vandy with Myer and Spurrier, and people were shocked. Nick, I don’t think that people understand this is always a game that’s close. I can’t say this enough. Every team has that one opponent that no matter how good or bad they are, it’s going to be a close game. Florida’s is Vanderbilt. Why that is, I don’t know. It just it. You and I were talking about making predictions on games, and I said we should pick the Alabama-Ole Miss game. You said, “But we’ll both pick Alabama.” I said, “Yeah, but it’ll be a closer game than many of us expect.” That’s true. That’s Alabama’s weakness. Even when Alabama’s steamrolling all these teams,

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we have Chris Lee from Vandy Sports on the show to help preview Florida Gators vs. Vanderbilt. Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre ask Lee the tough questions about this game and ask him the strengths and weakness of Vanderbilt. Andrew and Nick also talk about the charges being brought against the nine Florida suspended players. TRANSCRIPT: Andrew:​What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, it’s going on. Wild Monday. Nick:​Monday. It’s the beginning of, not necessarily the beginning of the end, but the beginning of a resolution to all of this. Andrew:​Yeah. It was a lot more severe than a lot of us had thought it was going to be. It happens. It looks like things are going to start moving, as you said, to a direction of coming to an end. It looks like there might be several guys that face some long-time punishment. Nick:​Yeah. This is going to take a while for the state attorney to finish it, to finish his investigation. That’s certainly on the table as far as guys could be getting in trouble and facing a lot of trouble, or guys could go through pretrial diversion and, if they’re good, they’ll be okay. It’s really kind of just up in the air, and it’s going to be on the state attorney. Andrew:​I don’t know a better way to say it, Nick, except for what dumbasses. I hate to use that word for that, but what dumbasses, Nick. You know what’s right from wrong. I mean, I understand smoking marijuana. It’s whatever. Those guys smoke marijuana. They think it’s cool. Whatever. Stealing another man’s credit card, Nick, and purchasing stuff that you know is rightfully not your money is wrong. You know it’s wrong. You know you’re not going to get away with it. I have no sympathy for these guys. Someone on Twitter was arguing with me on Monday night about how Alabama would brush it under the rug. Well, I don’t care what Alabama does. This is a difference between right and wrong. Football’s a privilege. Going to school for free is a privilege. It’s not something you’re guaranteed. It’s not something that is promised to you. It’s not something everybody can get. If you can’t follow the rules, you shouldn’t play football. If you’re going to steal from another man, no. I just have no sympathy for you. Nick:​Then when you look. There are a couple guys, seven of the nine guys involved, only did it once. You can kind of explain that away as being young or as making a mistake. When you’re using, in Kadeem Telfort’s case, trying five, six different cards multiple times, over 30 times, you can’t explain that away as a mistake. Andrew:​Right. Exactly. I don’t know, Nick. Maybe I’m being harsh on them. I don’t know what it is. I don’t agree. I don’t think that this should have been swept under the rug or tried to cover up or anything else. You do the crime, you face the punishment. Everyone, me and you get pretrial diversion. Everyone in America gets that at some point or another, and if that’s what the state attorney decides to do to these guys, then that’s fine, but no special privilege should be given to these guys whatsoever. Quite frankly, even if they do get pretrial diversion, like you said in your story, it’s unlikely they’d be back. They shouldn’t even have the opportunity to come back. Not this year. Nick:​What about this? Jim McElwain has earned a reputation as a player’s coach. He stuck his neck out there for James Robinson, has done that for other players. What would it do recruiting wise if he kicks nine people off the team? Seven, because you would assume that Scarlett and Callaway would be leaving anyway. Andrew:​Well, I don’t think that it does anything from that standpoint. It’s simply, at the end of the day, Nick, they have a job to do. Mac has a job to do, and the university has a job to do,

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we recap the Florida Gators win over Kentucky on Saturday in Lexington. Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break how the Gators won the game and what right and wrong on offense. Andrew and Nick also talk about how the Gators can fix the offensive struggles and the defensive struggles and why these issues are a lack of effort. TRANSCRIPT coming this afternoon.

GatorCountry brings you a new prediction podcast as we breakdown the Florida Gators vs. Kentucky Wildcats game on Saturday. Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre look at keys on both sides of the ball that will likely decide Saturday’s game in Lexington, Kentucky. Andrew and Nick also give you three players to watch for the Gators, plus predict three games and Florida’s game. TRANSCRIPT: Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, back, Friday podcast before Kentucky. You’re already in Lexington. Should be a good game. Kentucky announced it was going to be a sellout. Should be a little bit of noise up there in good old Lexington, the bluegrass state. Nick:                         Yeah. They’re talking. They are certainly talking. They’re confident. Why are they always confident every year? I don’t get it. Andrew:                 I don’t either. Nick:                         Two years ago, that was the year. You know what I mean? It just seems like, I don’t know. I don’t get the Kentucky hype to begin with. I think they beat a very mediocre South Carolina team, and they beat two cupcakes other than that. Do we know if Florida’s any good? I don’t know if we do. I don’t know if anyone in the damn SEC East is good. Andrew:                 I think there’s a lot of question marks out there for everyone. I think that both teams are coming in with some momentum in the game. I mean, like it or not, Kentucky going to South Carolina and winning was a big win for them, because any SEC win is big for Kentucky. I think the thing that kind of is funny to me, and people are already talking about storming the field. Do what? What are you doing? Nick:                         Yeah. To me that’s counting your chickens before they hatch. You might not even have any eggs to be counting to begin with. I don’t mind rushing the field. Andrew:                 I think it’s awesome. Nick:                         I think it’s fun. I think it looks cool. I don’t know if I would do it personally, because I don’t know how safe it is, but I think it looks cool. I think it’s fun, so I have no problem with that, but to start planning it against a team that you haven’t beaten in three decades? I don’t get it. Andrew:                 Exactly. I don’t know. I think the thing that you have to remember with Kentucky is they haven’t won in a lot of their fans’ lives. So that. It’s kind of like we said last year with Tennessee, and that was what are you bragging about? You haven’t done anything. There’s a fan on Twitter, before we went on to tape this podcast, that said, he was in our mentions, about you haven’t watched Kentucky this year. I have watched Kentucky this year, and I gave them props. I think they got a good quarterback that can make things happen, and I think that their defensive front seven is pretty good. I don’t think their defensive back group is that good. It’s also what we always say, and that is make me believe it. Show me that you can win. I know it’s another year, but at the same time, their players know they haven’t won in 30 games. If it comes down to 4th and 7 to win the game, and they have to make a completion, that 30 in a row is going to sneak into their head. Nick:                         I think we talked about this, not on the air though. I think it almost gets to a point where that streak weighs more on Kentucky than it does weigh on Florida. Last year I thought the 11 game streak against Tennessee, that’s more of a Florida thing, because that’s still fresh. This is so old that none of these guys remember Kentucky beating them, but the guys that Kentucky’s recruiting in the state of Kentucky, this is a huge game for them. Kentucky is almost, because of the history of the recent—not even recent—history of the series, it is almost like an afterthought to Florida fans,

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we continue to breakdown the Florida Gators vs. Kentucky game on Saturday in Lexington. Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre breakdown what Kentucky does well on offense and how its defense is doing against the running game. Andrew and Nick also explain how they think Florida should go about attacking Kentucky on offense. TRANSCRIPT: Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, Wednesday before Kentucky, and just another year. What are we at in the streak now? 50, 60? What’s the streak now? Nick:                         I believe that’s 30, the number you’re looking for there. Andrew:                 It was. It just does seem like forever. It was the year I was born is the last time they lost. I mean, technically you and I have really never seen a Florida loss. Nick:                         Never. Three decades. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be a Kentucky fan. Andrew:                 If you’re a Kentucky fan, do you even watch this game? I say this laughing, but not laughing. I mean, what do you say? What do you say to this? I mean, three decades. Nick:                         UF all time is 28-4 in Lexington. Andrew:                 Oh my gosh. Nick:                         Kentucky have only beaten Florida four times at home in 32 tries. Andrew:                 Yeah. Will say this though, Nick, and people continue to laugh at your boy over here, but this is a better Kentucky football team. Now, am I going to pick Kentucky? No. Is Florida better than Kentucky? Yes. All that good stuff. I’m just saying, I think this is a better Kentucky football team. Nick:                         Defense is good. Andrew:                 I love their quarterback. Nick:                         Okay. We’ll get to the quarterback. You’ve got to look at who they’ve played. Southern Miss, Eastern Kentucky, trash and trash. Then boom, boom. Gave 17, 15, and then 13. It’s almost interesting that they play their best opponent and give up their least amount, almost like the defense focused in. It’s the #1 rushing defense in the SEC right now, giving up 57 yards a game. Jim McElwain said it Monday, “When you can’t run, and your defense doesn’t let a team run, now you’re one dimensional, and you can’t ever allow that to happen.” Andrew:                 Yeah. That’s when you start to have problems. That’s when the defensive lines pins their ears back and just says, “Okay, we’re coming to get you.” Like I said, I think this is a better Kentucky football team. Am I just wrong about it? Probably. Who knows? I do. I think this is a better team that has some better players. Nick:                         I think the biggest thing about the defense is some of those guys, those interior linemen, are really starting to show up now. Those young guy, those crazy classes that Stoops got in first couple years. You’re like, how do you get these four stars? Yeah. Andrew:                 The big, fat Matty Young kid. Kentucky is #3 in the country in rush defense, behind only Duke and Utah. 57 yards per game given up. Not bad for Kentucky. It’s a good team. Just going through the stats here. Vandy only giving up 4.3 points per game. Wow. You go, Vandy. Nick:                         That’s a team next week that Florida needs to worry about, to be honest with you. I don’t think Jim McElwain’s scored more than 17 points against Vanderbilt in two games. It’s a tough team that plays Florida close, but that’s important next week. We’ve got Kentucky this week. Concerned about the quarterback, Stephen Johnson, who is completing a bunch of passes. I think he’s completed about 62% right now, and he can run. They’re not asking to do it a ton, but one of those kind of when he takes off, you got to be worried. Andrew:                 Yeah.

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we recap the Florida Gators big win over Tennessee on Saturday in the Swamp. Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down how the Gators improved on offense as the game went on, plus how the playmakers did. Andrew and Nick also break down the defense and how played well and not so well, plus go over our predictions. TRANSCRIPT: Andrew:​What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, what a game, what an atmosphere. Glad football is back. Nick:​That was a stinker for like 56 minutes. Andrew:​Yeah. Really three quarters I would say. Then you had the CJ Henderson pick six opened the floodgates. Nick:​Yeah. That started the 4th quarter. That was in the third play of the 4th quarter. Man, that was, for three quarters that was really bad football. Andrew:​It was almost like a chess match of who is going to suck first on offense? Who’s going to make that big mistake on offense first, because once you do it, then we’ll open the gates up. Happened. CJ got it, made that play. Tennessee turned it up. Actually, Malik Davis turned it up and had the ball popped out at the goal line. It’s 20-3, just like that. Nick:​That’s a huge swing go from 20-3 to 13-10. That’s a hustle play by, I don’t remember the guy from Tennessee. Hustle play on Tennessee’s part. Andrew:​Justin Hunter? Is it? Nick:​No. Justin Martin maybe. Andrew:​Justin Martin, that’s it. Juco DB kid from last year. Nick:​Yeah. That was just a hustle play on his part. What a run by Malik. Hit the hole and just gone. Andrew:​That’s what I was going to say. It’s a hustle play. Could Malik have caught, ran with the ball a little tighter? Yeah, but, like you said, it’s a hustle play. Something kind of stood out to me. Malik tweeted after the game something about, “I made a mistake. I’ll learn from it.” Jake McGee, who is probably the biggest pro Florida guy out there on Twitter, even though he only played two years at Florida, tweeted, “Never apologize for working hard and doing your best.” That was something that stood out. That was a good run by Malik. We’ll talk about it in a minute, as we get into the running backs, but find more carries for the guy. Nick:​Yeah. There’s a fine line when you’ve got four running backs. Perine having 11. Thompson had 7. Toney had 1, and Davis had 4. Andrew:​That’s what I’m saying. Here’s my thing. Actually, I’ll save it. I’ll save it for in a minute. We’ll get into that in a minute. Like we said, the 4th quarter kind of got thing started, and who called plays in the 4th quarter, Nick? That wasn’t Doug Nussmeier calling plays. Nick:​It was. It was Doug Nussmeier. Andrew:​Are we sure? Nick:​100%. Doug Nussmeier was calling plays in the 4th quarter. Andrew:​You can’t make me believe that. I’m saying that knowing that you’re right, but you still can’t make me believe that, because it just wasn’t Doug Nussmeier calling plays. It was like someone took over his body and called plays, because it actually looked like an offense that was pretty good. The Brandon Powell touchdown, nice play. It was a good play of getting your playmakers out in space and doing it. ​Now, I will say this. Florida did do a much better job of getting some of their playmakers the ball. Toney, Hammond, got Malik involved a little bit, and got Brandon Powell involved a little bit. It was coming out party for Kadarius Toney. Nick:​Yeah. Finally got that get it to list, and there it was. I’m texting you during the game, “Hey, there’s that stand pass.” They’re just getting the ball out of Feleipe’s hands quickly to get it into somebody else’s, one of your playmaker’s hands. Let them do something. Andrew:​We talk about it all the time.

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we predict the Florida Gators vs. Tennessee Volunteers game on Saturday. Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre give you their key match-ups to watch on Saturday including how Florida can get the offense going. Andrew and Nick give you three guys to watch for the Gators on Saturday, plus predict several game including Florida’s game. TRANSCRIPT:   Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, finally a prediction podcast. Cross our fingers that this one doesn’t have to go in the garbage like last week. Nick:                         Yeah. Taped last week, and then all of a sudden, I guess we’re not going to put that up. Talking about the game that’s not happening. Andrew:                 I was feeling pretty good about my picks too. I really predicted a Florida victory. Nick:                         I picked Northern Colorado last week. I’ll be honest. No, I didn’t. Andrew:                 You didn’t win or lose. It’s whatever. Yeah. God willing, there’ll be a game this week. Thank God. There’ll be some good football. I think that this is a decent game. I think it’ll be a good game for Florida to get their offense rolling. Overall, it’s a pitiful week of football. Nick:                         Yeah. It’s a rough slate of games. Really the shining star this week is Clemson at Louisville. That’s the primetime game. It’s a rough week out here. Rough week in these streets for college football. Andrew:                 I mean, the Florida State-Miami game would have probably been your second best game, and that gets cancelled. Then they were probably hoping Texas-UFC would be a good game, but Texas still sucks. Nick:                         Want to ask you a question. I feel like we say this so often. Do you think this week’s game is another, like for Michigan, like an ugly kind of grind it out game? Andrew:                 If past Tennessee games are any indication, then it probably is a game that is a run the ball kind of game. I say that, but I also think this could be a coming out party for Feleipe Franks. You know Tennessee’s probably going to come into this game thinking, “They’re going to run the ball. They’re going to run the ball.” Maybe get some play action, stuff like that, to come out. Let’s face it. This is a game that Nussmeier and Mac need from an offensive standpoint, to not only get fans off their back, but to get the players believing in it again. I mean, as a player after the Michigan game, you kind of had to think, be down a little bit on the offense, right? Nick:                         They’ll never say it. None of them will ever say it, but if I’m a defensive player for Florida, I’m already thinking, “Oh man, another.” Andrew:                 Here we go. Nick:                         This shit. It’s got to be taxing. I don’t know how, not after one week, but I don’t know how it doesn’t divide the locker room. It has in the past. Andrew:                 Here’s how it doesn’t divide the locker room. Because the offensive guys are pissed off too. They’re like, “Come on. Give me a play call I can work with.” Nick:                         Yeah. At some point, when your scoring leaders are two cornerbacks and a kicker, it’s easy to start pointing some fingers, I think. Andrew:                 Exactly. Again, I do think that there’ll be some running in the first half. I would say that probably the first half is an ugly half. If you’re Florida, you should be able to come out in the second half and make some moves with the play action passing, that kind of stuff. Not to give away my pick, but you know I think this could be a good week for Feleipe Franks this week. I’m interested to see how the game comes about, just because I think this is a game that could really get Florida’s offe...

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as Vince Ferrara joins us to preview Florida Gators vs. Tennessee as Vince covers the Volunteers. Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre ask Ferrara what the feeling is in Knoxville and how the Volunteers match up with the Gators. Andrew and Nick also break down what Jim McElwain had to say on Wednesday and how they move of Doug Nussmeier to the press box could help him call plays. TRANSCRIPT:   Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, two days in a row coming at them live. Nick:                         Yeah. New schedule this week. Two days in a row. That works for us. Andrew:                 Three days in a row technically. Nick:                         Yeah, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday with a prediction show. Schedule got pushed back. Thanks a lot, Irma. #thanksIrma. But it’s Tennessee hate week. Andrew:                 We’re not calling them Tennessee no more. Nick, they’re not Tennessee. Nick:                         We’re calling them what? Andrew:                 We’re calling them the trashcans. Nick:                         That’s unbelievable. Andrew:                 The fighting trashcans. Nick:                         This gets me fired up. Our buddy, our old intern, Richard Johnson, with SB Nation now, he wrote a story about all the different ones. He texted me about it, and I got so worked up. Because I’m a very calm tempered person, and Richard was like, “I don’t know what this trashcan does to you, but you can’t keep your control.” I don’t get it. It’s so stupid. Like I can’t wrap my mind around it, and it riles me up. I don’t understand why. Andrew:                 Only Tennessee could do this. Nick:                         Not much riles me up, but I don’t understand this stupid trashcan. Andrew:                 Only one team would do this. Nick:                         God. Andrew:                 Well, two. I could see Mark Richt doing it. Nick:                         Man, with that gangster chain. This 1980s Run DMC size chain with a huge U. That thing’s fine. Andrew:                 Then you get homeboy with a trashcan. Nick:                         I’m cool with Texas A&M and their little pimp cane, whatever they call that that they strut around with. I’m cool with that. I was cool with the sign your name with Geoff Collins. Sign your name. I was even cool with the stupid money down people jumping up and down like idiots on the sidelines. I’m cool. I yelled yesterday about Baker Mayfield and letting people have fun. I love fun. We watch sports. This is a fun thing. But you’re holding a trashcan up, homey. You’re holding a trashcan. Andrew:                 It’s because Butch is trying … Nick:                         On the sideline. You’re just parading around with it. Andrew:                 It’s Butch is trying to let people understand why he is … Nick:                         It’s impossible to be excited and dunk a football into a trashcan that somebody’s holding, and have it stay in there. Not only are you holding a trashcan, but then you got the ball flying out of the trashcan. You’re accomplishing nothing. Andrew:                 Butch is just trying to let people know what kind of football team he puts on the field every day. I mean, everybody has a mascot. Nick:                         I need to do some temper meditation on this damn trashcan. Andrew:                 Everybody has a mascot, and Tennessee is trashcans. Florida can officially take out the trash on Saturday at 3:30 in the Swamp. We’re going to bring on our buddy here in just a second, our buddy Vince from Sports Radio, WNML in Knoxville. I don’t like very many people in Knoxville, but Vince is a good dude. Nick,

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we talk about the Florida Gators vs. Tennessee game now that its location has been finalized. Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down why the game remains in Gainesville and how the team is preparing despite missing Monday’s practice. Andrew and Nick also start to break down the game and how the Gators can attack a weak Tennessee defense. TRANSCRIPT: Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, nice to be back. Looks like things went about as good as possible. Still some damage. Still some flooding and all that good stuff, but I don’t know about you, Nick, but I’m glad to be talking football. Nick:                         Yeah. Still talking football. Hurricane Irma, for parts of Florida, and certainly for the Caribbean, was devastating. We got really lucky here in Gainesville. Certainly people are without power. People are dealing with flooding, but that path that Irma took, where it kind of got hung up on Cuba, I think really helped the entire state of Florida. It certainly helped all of us here in Gainesville. Andrew:                 Yeah. It was a little bit of a question mark about whether the game would be played or not. Something I learned is that Tennessee is actually going to send some police officers down and some people to help work the game, to help Florida with it. The SEC is going to actually pay that, so that will kind of relieve some of the stress off of Florida for that. At the end of the day, it’s kind of like someone told me today, “It’s good for the state.” It’s going to be about a three hour, four hour event, where they kind of get to take their mind off and focus on something besides recovering. Nick:                         The biggest thing with can the game be played in Florida, so it takes approximately 3,500 emergency service personnel. That’s EMTs, cops, sheriffs, anything of that nature. I think the biggest thing was what is the pull? If there’s not a need in Gainesville, like I said, Gainesville was kind of spared for the most part, well if there’s not a need in Gainesville, but there’s a huge need in Ocala, Jacksonville, Daytona, those cities would pull from Gainesville. So you’re not just looking at Gainesville’s fine to play. You have to look at the cities around Gainesville that would pull from Gainesville’s emergency personnel. Obviously, there’s a lot of stuff that goes into it. The SEC, and Florida and Tennessee, all agreed that it would be good to play the game. I think you’re right. Kind of like after 9-11, when the Yankees got back to playing. When there’s a national tragedy, yeah, life is more important than sports, but sports also play a healing role as far as getting your mind off of things, even if it’s only for a three, four hour window. It’s going to be safe to play in Florida, in Gainesville. Good on Tennessee for bringing people down and extending that olive branch and doing what they can to help. Andrew:                 Of course, we reported on Monday and stuff that there was other options. People were starting to fly off the handle a little bit about it. It was a situation where you had to look at all options, because if they couldn’t come up with the personnel, that kind of stuff, you had to be prepared, and Florida was prepared for that. While we all wanted the game to be at home, you also had to remember, it might not be possible. Florida was doing their best to play at home, but they also knew, at the end of the day, they had to play this game, so they were looking at all windows. I think that’s where people kind of went off the horse a little bit in that. It wasn’t that Florida was looking to move this game, but it was a situation where you have to play this game. That’s something the SEC put into effect last year when the LSU thing went about.

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we recap the Florida Gators lost to the Michigan Wolverines on Saturday night. Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break what went wrong for the offense and how offensive coordinator Doug Nussemeier can get things rolling. Andrew and Nick also breakdown Feleipe Franks’ game and how the Gators young defense performed. TRANSCRIPT:   Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, we’re a little late on the podcast. Sorry for that. Just travel was bad, and then Labor Day right after. The schedule’s all moved up. We’re coming at it. It’s not going to be a fun podcast though. If you guys are looking for Nick and I to cheer you up, turn it off now. I’ll just go ahead and tell you. I’m not in the mood to cheer anyone up. Nick:                         Yeah. Also apologize for my voice. It was worse yesterday, when we were talking about doing the podcast yesterday while traveling. My voice was even worse than it is now. Don’t adjust your radio or your phone. This is actually how I sound. Andrew:                 Yeah. Let’s start off with one piece of positive news. Really impressed with Dallas. Really impressed with AT&T stadium. There was not a single thing that went unnoticed in that stadium. David and I got to kind of go around the whole area Friday, go in the locker rooms, that kind of stuff. There’s not a single part of things that was not done well. Everything was done well. Nick, probably the most friendly staff of people working there at AT&T stadium that I’ve ever seen. Nick:                         They were great. You know me, the food spread. They had a carving station with ribeye. They had cookies and candy. The food spread that they had was incredible. Andrew:                 Some of the best backed chicken I ever had. My God, that was good. It was fantastic. Overall, AT&T stadium did well. Also Scott Strickland and the Gator Alumni Association did well. That pep rally was very well thought out. Florida was easily 60/40 to Michigan fans. That whole chompville thing really took over. Dallas was definitely pro-Florida on the week. From the time I got there on Thursday till the time I left on Sunday, I saw it. It was very stacked up. Props to them. Props to you, Gator fans. Nick:                         Chompville was working until about the 3rd quarter. Andrew:                 Yeah. Nick, Gators lose. It was a close game for the majority of the game, but it was still a nasty football game. Nick, we watched the worst offensive performance for Florida since maybe the Missouri game of Will Muschamp. Nick:                         No. This is, 192 yards is the second lowest total since the first time Mac played Bama in 2015, the SEC Championship game. They only 180 yards in that game, 192 today. I used that for a story. I was going to say the same as you. Andrew:                 I’m saying the Muschamp Missouri game. Nick:                         I’m saying McElwain’s offense against Alabama in the first SEC Championship game was just as bad as what we saw. You don’t have to back that far. Andrew:                 Yeah. I don’t know, Nick. I don’t know what the answer to the question is. I mean, I do. I do. There has to be a change in play calling. I don’t like to say that, because I don’t like to say that for anybody. I don’t think Doug Nussmeier needs to be gone. Leave him as the quarterback coach. Mac needs to call plays. Florida first 10 plays, first drive of the game, when they’re in scripted plays, are the best offensive plays Florida runs. It’s with tempo. It’s with urgency. It’s the best there is for Florida. Jim McElwain is involved in those scripted plays. That’s when Florida looks good. Mac said it on Saturday, and, Nick, it pissed me off. You know it pissed me off. He said,

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we bring you our Florida Gators vs. Michigan Wolverines prediction podcast. Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down the latest suspensions around the team, plus break down the keys for the game as we see them. Andrew and Nick also give you their three players to watch in the game, plus predict the score of the Gators game, plus four other games. TRANSCRIPT: Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, can we please have a boring day before we go to Dallas? Please. Nick:                         I would love a boring day. Would love a boring day. I’m just not getting one. Andrew:                 I had it planned out. I had my Wednesday planned out. Teleconference. Skip. Little break to write. Then we knew it was going to be Mac, and while I’m writing Jordan Scarlett and Rick Wells get suspended. Not going to Dallas. Mac announces it. Broke the team rules. Did the whole credit card fraud stuff, like the other seven did. The police investigation found Scarlett and Wells were involved as they were doing it. Supposedly that investigation just started two days ago. That means those guys will not go to Dallas. I think the overlying problem, Nick, isn’t so much that you lose your top running back, because that hurts. I think you have depth at running back, but I think it’s the distraction, the distraction that has now been taken off your team once again. You go into the game without Callaway. You go into the game without several of your key backups in the game, I would say. Then you lose Scarlett now. I just think it’s constant distractions. Nick:                         It’s distractions. Andrew:                 Stupidness. Nick:                         There’s no way to spin it. Your two best offensive players are not playing. You’re not a better team. I don’t care. It’s true, you have more depth at receiver than you would have two years ago if this would have happened. You have more depth at running back. I think you might have had the same depth at running back. Florida’s actually had a pretty good staple of backs for a while now, but you take the two best players off the team, and you’re not a better football team. Your offense is not better without Jordan Scarlett or without Antonio Callaway. There’s no way to spin that. Andrew:                 Right. I think the thing that, I guess you hit on it, and this someone said to me. “If Callaway and Scarlett would have been injured in practice, it doesn’t get as much attention as it does with the suspension.” If they’re getting injured, that. Getting suspended is that. That’s kind of where I was saying the distraction per say. It just seems like it’s a heavy distraction against them. Quite frankly, it’s just a look that I know Mac personally doesn’t like. We can say what we want to, Mac does not like this whole bad stuff going around his program. Nick:                         You’ve got 10 guys suspended for the opening game of the season. To me, that’s wild. It’s wild to me. 10 guys suspended. Andrew:                 Yeah. Exactly. There was some other news that came out. For the first time since 1984, the Gators will trot out a redshirt freshman to start the season opener. Feleipe Franks. To me, that’s no surprise. To you it was a surprise, because you called Del Rio the starter. I called Franks the starter, and I think that it was the best move for Mac. Nick:                         You’re betting her on upside. Don Brown was interviewed today. He is, for Gator fans that don’t know, Don Brown is a great defensive coach. He’s the defensive coordinator at Michigan. He was interviewed today and asked about having to prepare for all three quarterbacks. He gave the assessment. He had to prepare for Malik Zaire when Zaire was at Notre Dame. He basically said, without saying it,

GatorCountry.com brings you a new podcast as we break down the depth chart for the Florida Gators that was released on Tuesday morning. Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre also talk with Angelique Chengelis of the Detroit News about the Michigan Wolverines heading into the game. Andrew and Nick talk with Chengelis about the key points to the game and also get her prediction for the game. TRANSCRIPT: Andrew:​What’s up, Gator Country? Once again, your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, three days from the time people are listening to this until game day. Nick:​Andrew, I’m sorry to do this to you, spring it on you, but I will be quitting Gator Country. Andrew:​Okay. Nick:​I will be moving to Vegas to become a bookmaker. My over/under line of 9.5 was right on the money. Andrew:​There was no way it could have been 9.5. Nick:​I don’t think you understand over/unders. Andrew:​You were at 9. Nick:​In over/under you don’t set a number that can be hit. You set 9.5, because that number can’t be hit. You either have to pick over 9.5 or under 9.5. Andrew:​Okay. I got you now. Nick:​So me putting the line at 9.5, and it coming in at 9, that’s perfect. Vegas in a baseball game will say, “The over/under for Braves nationals today is 7.5.” So you’re betting, if I think there’s going to be 8 runs, or, no, I think they’re not going to score 8 runs. Andrew:​Right. Okay. I see what you’re saying now. Nick:​So my line of 9.5, on the dot. Andrew:​Don’t quit your day job, bud. Yes. The depth chart was released Tuesday, and we both went under, right? Nick:​No. I went over. I think we both went over. Andrew:​Maybe so. I can’t remember if I said 9 or 10. Anyway, whatever. We were pretty close on our predictions for the depth chart. We’ll get into that more here in a little bit, but we got Angelique from the Detroit News joining us again this week. Came on last week, and gave us some good stuff about Michigan. She’s going to join us here in just a second to really talk about the game, get down to mismatches, that kind of stuff, and maybe get a prediction. Also find out if Tom Brady’s really starting for them at quarterback. Nick:​Yeah. Tom’s starting at quarterback. I think Desmond Howard’s catching passes and playing defensive back too. Andrew:​This is getting silly. I hate to just say it like that. It’s getting silly. Nick:​What’s getting silly? Andrew:​This whole Harbaugh thing. It’s getting silly. I understand you don’t want to release the depth chart. Completely understand that. But a roster? Come on, man. What are you doing here? The roster had to be turned into the NCAA, so Florida technically has that roster. What are you doing? Then to be, I don’t know, a prick and release an alumni roster. Get out of here, bro. What do you think? Nick:​I think it’s pettiness, just for pettiness sake. At this point, you’re just being petty. Andrew:​Yeah. I guess that’s the best way to say it. I don’t know. It’s gone too far with it. Harbaugh being Harbaugh, and wanting to be in the news, he’s getting it. Anyway, whatever it may be, his roster will be out there on Saturday. Who cares? He’s not announcing his starting quarterback. Florida’s not announcing their starting quarterback. What’s new? Neither one of us thought that was going to happen. Nick:​No. We got an old-fashioned pissing match between the coaches here. Andrew:​Yeah. Nick:​Harbaugh yesterday did, it was almost like a Trump fake news. He gets out to his press conference, and he was like, “I don’t think Florida’s announced a starting quarterback. No one’s talking about that. Very interesting.” Andrew:​Yeah. That’s because your retarded self, Harbaugh,