Gator Country brings you a new podcast as we recap the Florida Gators win over South Carolina on Saturday in the Swamp by a score of 20-7.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down how the offense improved on Saturday, plus how Austin Appleby played while replacing Luke Del Rio.

Andrew and Nick also start to look forward to the LSU game next Saturday in Baton Rouge, plus recap some recruiting notes from the big weekend.

TRANSCRIPT:

 

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, Will Muschamp is a loser again in the Swamp. Breaking news.

Nick:                         It felt familiar.

Andrew:                 No offense.

Nick:                         I was walking out, and I was talking to Josh Kendall, who’s a very good reporter, works at The State, covers South Carolina, and I said, “Josh, that looked familiar.” Punt, punt, punt, punt. The audio is not messed up. I’m reading South Carolina’s drive chart. Fumble, punt, end of half. Punt, punt, interception, and then it got weird with a touchdown, and then turnover on downs. That is a Will Muschamp offensive drive chart if I’ve ever seen one.

Andrew:                 Yeah. To be fair, the touchdown came against basically all of second and third team.

Nick:                         Yeah. I think South Carolina had like 141 of their total offensive yards, they put up 256, and I think like 150 of them were on the last two drives.

Andrew:                 Yeah.

Nick:                         That’s when people are out, people are hurt. You’re playing second team.

Andrew:                 To go on to this, I said on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Florida needed a spark on offense, and I said they needed to come out with a fire under them. I said this to you right before the game started, I think, I said, “They looked like there was more energy.” Remember that conversation?

Nick:                         Yes.

Andrew:                 It did. It seemed like there was more energy. Appleby hit the zone read, and then it seemed like there’s that spark. The offense only scores 20 points, but when you’re at halftime, and it’s 14-0, I think you and I both looked at each other and was like, “This game should be 28-0. It feels like a blowout.” That’s exactly how it was. Had it not been for…

Nick:                         Turnovers.

Andrew:                 Turnovers and then just a dropped pass by, was it C’yontai? On 3rd down, they get a 1st down, they keep moving. They score. It’s 35, 42 to nothing. That’s the way it was. It was a much better job by the offense, and props to, and you’re going to hear me say it, the offensive line. The offensive line that was banged up, TJ McCoy and Kavaris Harkless played pretty well. You didn’t hear their name called, so that’s a good thing.

Nick:                         What would you have said if on Friday’s podcast I had told you, Tyler Jordan’s going down, not going to return. David Sharpe’s going down, not going to return. So you’re going to be turning to, when I tweeted, “TJ McCoy is in,” I don’t think the reaction was sarcastic, but I had about 10 tweets saying, “Who?” That’s where Florida was. Florida is on their third string center, and had to move Martez Ivey out to left tackle and bring in Kavaris Harkless to play left guard. If I would have told you that was the scenario, what would you have said is going to happen on Saturday?

Andrew:                 I’m going to give you my honest take, and I think when I tell you this you’re going to actually believe me. I would said, “I want to see Martez at le