Gator Country brings you our Wednesday podcast and Matt Jones of Kentucky Sports Radio joins us to help us continue to preview the Florida Gators vs. Kentucky Wildcats.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre ask Matt the tough questions about the key match-ups that will decide the game on Saturday afternoon in the Swamp.

Andrew and Nick also break down how big of addition Tyrie Cleveland and Rick Wells are to the Gators, plus break down the latest injuries for Florida.

TRANSCRIPT:

 

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man back here again, Andrew Spivey, with my man, Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, Wednesday of game week before Kentucky. Are you ready for some SEC football?

Nick:                         Ready for SEC football. Ready for Kentucky. 29 years in a row Kentucky has lost this football game. I am 27 years old. I have never ever in my life heard the words Kentucky beat Florida.

Andrew:                 I don’t know. I mean, I’m 29. I just turned 29, so I’ve never seen it myself either. Let’s keep that going here. I don’t think either one of us want to have to deal with the message boards and all that good stuff, but as we continue to break this game down we’re going to dissect it even further this week. We’re going to have our friend from Kentucky Sports Radio, Matt Jones, on there. Who? Matt Jones. Yes, he’s coming. He made news on this podcast last year, Nick, when he predicted the upset.

Nick:                         Florida fans were not happy with us for bringing Matt on, but Matt, he’s a Kentucky fan. He’s a Kentucky guy, and he was good to talk to.

Andrew:                 I mean, it’s ratings. We’re good. It’ll be interesting here. We’re going to have him come join us in just a second, and be interesting to get his take on what he thinks.

Nick:                         It’ll be interesting to see how he feels after last week where Kentucky blows a 27 point lead, lose to Southern Miss 35-44. Sophomore quarterback Drew Barker had four touchdowns in the first half, but it was a tale of two halves last week for Kentucky. So it’ll be interesting to see what his feelings are about the team.

Andrew:                 Yeah, and see if he’s as confident on the Mark Stoops bandwagon that he was. Let’s go ahead. Let’s get some news and notes out of here. We’ll break down how important this is after we talk to Matt, but Coach Mac Monday announces Tyrie Cleveland and Rick Wells are back, and then the news on Tuesday dropped that the felony charges had been dropped. That goes along with what we had told everyone that they wasn’t playing with a felony charge looming over their heads, so once that was dropped.

Nick:                         Dropped to a misdemeanor. The charges weren’t dropped.

Andrew:                 Yeah. Dropped from.

Nick:                         The charges were lessened.

Andrew:                 Right. Lessened.

Nick:                         Just a clarification.

Andrew:                 There you go. Lessened. It’s probably going to end up being probation and paying the fine, which we’ve already been told the fine has been paid, or the damages have been paid. So that’s good. Those two guys are back. C’yontai and Jalen Tabor, they’re back. Chris Thompson, or the “fifth senior”, is still up in the air if he’s coming back or not.

Nick:                         Yeah. Still top secret there, right?

Andrew:                 Yeah. One interesting is Daniel McMillian is a little questionable.

Nick:                         Now, this is interesting. So McElwain wouldn’t say what the injury was, but then later w