Prediction podcast for Florida Gators vs. Michigan Wolverines




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Summary: GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we bring you our Florida Gators vs. Michigan Wolverines prediction podcast.<br> 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.<br> 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.<br> TRANSCRIPT:<br> 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.<br> Nick:                         I would love a boring day. Would love a boring day. I’m just not getting one.<br> 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.<br> 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.<br> Nick:                         It’s distractions.<br> Andrew:                 Stupidness.<br> 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.<br> 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.<br> 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.<br> 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.<br> 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,