Gator Country brings you a new podcast as we preview which freshmen we think will play in 2016 for the Florida Gators football team, plus which ones might redshirt.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre preview the Gators season opener and Florida's long streak of winning the first game of the season.

Andrew and Nick also give you a recruiting update as the Gators picked up two commitments last week from two highly touted prospects.

TRANSCRIPT:

 

Andrew:                 Hello, Gator Country. Your man, Andrew Spivey, here, and it’s officially game week for the Florida Gators and for college football. Just five short days when you guys are listening to us until the Gators and U Mass get under way. Nick, it’s good. High school football dominated the headway this week, so it’ll be college football next week.

Nick:                         Still salty that my boys at St. Thomas didn’t get it done, but very happy to have college football back, and Cal and Hawaii actually kicked it off.

Andrew:                 That was in Australia. 61,000 people there. That was pretty interesting to see. Not a good game, but tipped it off to get things under way.

Nick:                         Yeah. It’ll be interesting. It’s a jam packed first week. You’ve got LSU, Wisconsin, Florida. Florida’s kicking it off. Alabama, USC, some good games Week 1. Week 2 is a little drop off, but Week 1 is really a great way to kick off the college football season.

Andrew:                 ESPN is calling it the best college football weekend, opening weekend, of all time, and I can’t say that I disagree. It’s a lot of really good games. Be interesting to see just how some teams stack up. You start with Tennessee. You get South Carolina/Vanderbilt game. That won’t be a good game, but that should be a fun game for Florida fans. Then Alabama/USC. That should be a good one as well. Texas/Notre Dame is a game that I’m intrigued by, just because of Texas and Charlie Strong. Just quick look ahead, everyone, for the week. We’ll be back to our normal game week prep, and we’ll have the usual Sunday podcast where we’re recap the games and talk a little bit about the upcoming team. Then on Wednesdays we’ll have a guest from the opposing team on with us to talk about what their team is like, and then kind of their matchup. Then we’ll also give updates on injuries, that kind of stuff, on Wednesday. Then on Friday Nick and I will make our prediction on the game, talk about some key matchups, and also pick our three guys to have a good game. Should be a fun time, back to three podcasts a week. So be ready. Strap it in and get ready to go. Season is here.

Nick:                         Let me do this real quick. I met Justin Alvarez at Fan Day, told him I would give him a shout out on the podcast, and then went 0-2 last week.

Andrew:                 There you go.

Nick:                         He reminded me. You guys can follow him @FLGator87 on Twitter. What’s up, Justin? Nice meeting you. I always come through on my promise, even if it’s a little late.

Andrew:                 There you go. One of our fans on Twitter kind of talked about wanting to do a Gator in the NFL. We’ll do that on Wednesdays as well, after the Monday night games are over. Wednesday’s our first podcast after that. We’ll do that on Wednesdays. We’ll try to set aside about a five or 10 minute segment just to kind of talk about the Gators in the League. There’s a lot of them. Dominic Easley is on Hard Knocks with the Rams, and getting a little bit of playing time. Plenty of Gators in the NFL. As Coach Mac says, Gator made.

Nick:                         That’s a nice little marketing pitch there.

Andrew:                 It’s a cool little m