Gator Country brings you a new Friday podcast as we preview the SEC Championship game where the Florida Gators will meet the Alabama Crimson Tide.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down how the Florida Gators can attack the Alabama defense, plus what the Gators must do to stop Jalen Hurts.

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

TRANSCRIPT:

 

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, we’re getting to do a podcast this week while 10 other teams are waiting to go do nothing on Saturday.

Nick:                         Second year in a row Florida’s playing a football game against Alabama while everyone else in the country, everyone else around the SEC, watches.

Andrew:                 Yeah. As Coach Mac says, “Atlanta is pretty this time of the year.”

Nick:                         No, it’s not. First off, that sounds nice, but, no, it’s not. It’s freezing.

Andrew:                 To be fair, Atlanta’s pretty at all times of the year.

Nick:                         Absolutely not. Atlanta is cold right now. It is very cold right now.

Andrew:                 You freeze. The Fonzie jacket, for people that don’t know, Nick has a Fonzie jacket. He got it from Fonzie’s closet. It’s a Fonzie jacket. Nick wears it. No.

Nick:                         It’s a leather jacket that I wear when it’s cold.

Andrew:                 I know, but it’s a Fonzie jacket. You even call it the Fonzie.

Nick:                         The high is 50. I’m going to be an icicle.

Andrew:                 Good thing the game is inside.

Nick:                         Thank God.

Andrew:                 You know, I’ve been able to sit back and think about this a little bit, Nick, all throughout the week, and I’ve talked to people. I have come to a conclusion, and it may be, maybe it was the disappointment from last week, but the fan base is just negative, my friend. It is just, it’s awful right now. I do feel bad for Mac, and I do feel bad for the players, because at the end of the day they are in Atlanta while the rest of the country isn’t. You talk about, well, the East is bad. Well, the East is bad, but Florida’s better than the rest of them. I just, I don’t know. You would think the fan base after Willy, Willy Muschamp, would appreciate getting to Atlanta, but it doesn’t, and it’s wild. This week has been wild to see the fan base.

Nick:                         Listen, man, Gator fans are spoiled. They’ve been that way since Spurrier, and the invention and popularity of social media has just exacerbated that. It’s just made it worse.

Andrew:                 Let me ask you this. Do you think that the vast majority of Gator fans feel the same way as the, and you’re exactly right in that it’s social media, and you and I follow a lot of fans, have a lot of fans retweeted. Do you think it’s the vast majority of fans?

Nick:                         It’s not just, I mean, it’s the message boards too.

Andrew:                 I feel like, and I’m going to say this, and maybe I’m wrong, but it seems like the older guys, the older fan base, isn’t upset, but the younger fan base that is excited by offense is upset. Is that a point that you think is valid?

Nick:                         I would say sort of, but I’ve seen older fans that are pissed off too.

Andrew:                 Right. I don’t know. It just is, I don’t know. It’s different. I just