Gator Country brings you a new Friday prediction podcast as we get you ready for the Florida Gators game against LSU on Saturday afternoon in Death Valley.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down the key match-ups in this game and what they think the Gators will do on offense.

Andrew and Nick also give you three players to watch for the Gators, plus predict games around the country including Gators vs. Tigers.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:                 What up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, Friday before LSU. It’s game time. It’s time to play the hurricane game. Smack talk aside, 12:00 kick, let’s do this.

Nick:                         Noon kick. I’m ready to be in Baton Rouge. I’m ready to be, more importantly, in New Orleans on Thursday night. That’s good for me.

Andrew:                 Yeah. I think that this has been a good week for Florida overall. No trash talk from the Florida side, kind of letting whatever they want to say say, and kind of move on, and I think that’s been a good thing, a positive thing, for Florida. A couple of people has also told me that things have been well in practice, that it’s been a focused practice, and seems like everybody’s ready to go as far as the game goes. It seems like most people understand what’s at stake Saturday in Baton Rouge.

Nick:                         Joey Ivie said it, “If you can’t get up for this game, then you don’t love football. You need to look in the mirror and wonder what you’re doing.” Everything’s on the line. Florida with a win, Jim McElwain would become the first football coach to ever take his team back to back in the first two years to SEC Championship games. Nick Saban didn’t do that. Les Miles didn’t do that. Steve Spurrier, they didn’t.

Andrew:                 They did, but they didn’t, because they had it taken away.

Nick:                         Yeah. To me, it’s everything’s on the line. This is a rivalry game. There’s been so much trash talk. LSU’s called you out as men and said, “You’re afraid to come here and play us.” They’re questioning not just you as a football player. They’re questioning you as a man, and if you can’t find it in yourself to use that to focus on this week, and I mean that as in practice, can’t focus this week in practice to get yourself ready for Saturday, then what are you doing?

Andrew:                 Yeah. You think about that, and that’s the truth. I just said this to someone. I said, “You talk about these guys that are leaving, going to leave school early, whether that be Quincy, Tabor, Brantley, whoever it may be, you talk about that, and those guys have got pride too. So they’re going to go into this game pissed off.” I mean, Jalen Tabor’s one of the guys that I wouldn’t question how tough he is. He comes from Maryland. He looks like a bad man. Quincy, down in the streets in South Florida, I mean I understand Fort Lauderdale’s not as bad as some of the other places, but still you don’t question those guys integrity, and you don’t, any man, in my opinion, you don’t question that and don’t expect them to respond.

Nick:                         We’ll see what Florida’s made of. That doesn’t mean you go down there and you win, but if you go down there and lay an egg, then, yeah, maybe you were. Maybe they were right. You have to go down there and play like you’re ready to play. You have to play like you know what’s at stake, and it’s kind of a balancing act. We talk about it when I was playing baseball all the time. Okay, you’re playing for a championship. It’s a different game. You don’t treat it the same as every other game. This isn’t the same as playing Missouri. This isn’t the same as if you would have