Gator Country brings you our Friday prediction podcast for the Florida Gators game against UMass on Saturday night in the Swamp.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre discuss the key match-ups in the game, plus have their buy/sell segment on predictions for this season opener.

Andrew and Nick also predict the Gators game, plus they each give you three players that you should watch for while watching the game.

TRANSCRIPT:

 

Andrew:                 Oh my, oh my, Nicholas. Football is here. We’re back. Gator Country here with your Friday prediction. Nicholas, it’s always this time of the year when you think, how did we make it through the off season? But we did. Off season is over with. Football started Thursday night. You’re listening to this Friday. Kickoff in less than 24 hours.

Nick:                         Oh my. That was my Mick. Was that good?

Andrew:                 That was pretty good.

Nick:                         Alright. Full slate on Thursday. Five straight days of college football ending on Monday with Ole Miss and Florida State. Great time to be a college football fan.

Andrew:                 Unbelievable time. I like it that they spread it out a little bit. That Texas/Notre Dame game on Sunday night is going to be a pretty good game. I’m interested to see how Texas gets better, because, quite frankly, it kind of feels like the 2014 season with Muschamp for Charlie Strong. It’s like, everyone expects for him to be fired. How long does it happen, and what does he need to do to get off that? They could be starting a freshman in Shane Buechele. Then Notre Dame, one of those teams that’s overrated every year, goes out to Austin.

Nick:                         Yeah. You’ve got Cal going out to Texas A&M on Saturday. Just a great slate of games. Glad that Florida will not be playing the University of Massachusetts to open the season next year. They’ll be joining that great slate of Week 1 games, but it is what it is. This year we will enjoy the ones we can. I will miss, unfortunately, some great games Saturday night, but I get paid to watch football.

Andrew:                 There you go.

Nick:                         That’s pretty cool.

Andrew:                 Pretty cool, it is. It’s a good slate of games. I was trying to think back, and really for the last few years I can’t really think of a better slate than this weekend.

Nick:                         It seems like there’s always a couple, but this year there’s a bunch.

Andrew:                 Yeah. That’s what I was saying. I kind of felt like it was one of those rare opportunities or rare seasons that there was a bunch of them. Of course, being Labor Day weekend they spread them out a little bit, so that helped. Be interesting to see how next season looks. I haven’t looked at the opening weekend, but should be a good one. We’ll pick them here in a little bit, and see how we do. Nicholas is still denying my victory from last year, but we’ll see. We’ll keep track of them. We’ll get to that here in a little bit with our three stars as well. We’ll make our prediction on this Gators/UMass game, and should be close, but we’ll make it.

Nick, a couple things I wanted to kind of talk about. You had Coach Mac Wednesday. Had Coach Skip, had all those guys. Receivers, man, you’re down to five. Lot of guys are going to get a lot of opportunities. Swain and Hammond and Massey, those three youngsters, are going to get a lot of reps Saturday.

Nick:                         Yeah. For everyone keeping score at home, Mac said they’ll have six wide receivers playing, rotating through, and that does not leave a lot of rest time. Powell, Massey, Hammond, Swain, Ahmad Fulwood, and who am I miss