Prediction podcast for Florida Gators vs. Kentucky Wildcats




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Summary: GatorCountry brings you a new prediction podcast as we breakdown the Florida Gators vs. Kentucky Wildcats game on Saturday.<br> 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.<br> Andrew and Nick also give you three players to watch for the Gators, plus predict three games and Florida’s game.<br> TRANSCRIPT:<br> 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.<br> Nick:                         Yeah. They’re talking. They are certainly talking. They’re confident. Why are they always confident every year? I don’t get it.<br> Andrew:                 I don’t either.<br> 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.<br> 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?<br> 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.<br> Andrew:                 I think it’s awesome.<br> 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.<br> 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.<br> 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.<br> 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,