Gator Country brings you a new podcast as Safid Dean of the Orlando Sentinel joined us to help preview the Florida Gators vs. Florida State game.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre ask Dean for his keys of the game from the Florida State side, plus what Jimbo Fisher is saying about the game.

Andrew and Nick also continue to break down the game, plus give you the keys for the Gators on both offense and defense.

TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, back with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, rivalry week. Gators/Noles, Tallahassee, Ron Zook Field, Saturday night.
Nick:Ron Zook Field. Oh my goodness, never forget Ron Zook getting carried off of the field that was named after him.
Andrew:Yeah. That was one of the games, and I’ll admit, so I actually remember this game very clear. So I was actually on a recruiting trip with a couple of my players at Troy, and I came back to a buddy’s house that lived in Troy to see the end of the game, see Florida win, see Zook get carried off. I’m sitting here thinking, wow. That is crazy. I mean, that was a Ron Zook signature win.
Nick:That was kind of like the beginning of the internet, and that was really the first time that you saw the internet completely turn on a coach. FireRonZook.com, whoever ran that, I would love to meet them. Now, of course, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, you get all kinds of stuff calling for coaches to be fired after seven games, but that was the birth of the internet really, and we got FireRonZook.com. Nice way for Zook to go out, on the shoulders of his team, and renaming the field. That was a crazy season. I think it was losing to Mississippi State is what did it in.
Andrew:Yeah. Losing to Mississippi State on the road, cowbells. That was back in the UPN 44 game of the week at noon. Those were the bad…
Nick:This week we’ve got a prime time kickoff.
Andrew:Is it prime time at 8:00?
Nick:That’s prime time.
Andrew:Maybe.
Nick:I probably shouldn’t be saying prime time. That’s Deon Sanders, show little FSU bias here. It’s prime time football.
Andrew:I can’t even do the chop this week, man.
Nick:Well, first off, the chop should never be done.
Andrew:Actually, the chop should be done.
Nick:Never, ever once.
Andrew:It’s okay. I can take a week off from that, because guess what? Guess what, Tennessee? Guess what?
Nick:Life champions.
Andrew:You’re the life champions. I’m going to be in Atlanta covering an SEC East champion while you’re getting your life championship. Nick, what the hell is Butch Jones doing? Is he losing his mind? Does he want to get fired? This guy is a loser. Really a loser.
Nick:Andrew, please. Being a champion of life is much more important than being an SEC champion.
Andrew:Where’s my championship?
Nick:Being a champion of life falls right under Bristol Speedway champions and a close third would be Preseason champions. So congratulations. Maybe they’ll make some rings for the life champions, kind of like FSU made state championship rings, because we’re still playing high school football.
Andrew:We’re going to talk about that here in a minute with our buddy, Safid Deen of Orlando Sentinel. You should be at Gator Country. Covers Florida State. We’re going to talk to him about that in a second, but, Nick, we’re not leaving Butch yet. What is he doing? I’ve always known he’s a loser, but only losers say the things he said on Saturday. Life champions? Life champions? What are you doing? Everybody’s a life champion. Hold on, Nick, he’s second to last in graduation rate in the SEC.
Nick:Life champions.
Andrew:I mean, maybe so. Maybe life after football is going back to work at McDonald’s.
Nick:Ouch. Butch was just shook. He was shook at that press conference, didn’t know what to say.
Andrew:I don’t even know what to say. What are you doing?
Nick:I don’t know. There’s no explanation for it.
Andrew:I mean, like to me that just took loser to a new level. He wants to be