GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we continue to preview the Florida Gators vs. UT-Martin game on Saturday in Gainesville.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre talk about the keys for the Gators on Saturday and what areas they need to improve in against UT-Martin.
Andrew and Nick also talk about what happened last week in college football, plus we talk about the latest news regarding former Gators in the NFL.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, we’re back finally. Your boy was down for the count this weekend, but we’re good. It’s Wednesday before UT Martin. The mighty UT Martin comes to town in Gainesville. Looks like the weather should be clear. Hurricane Dorian finally made that turn. Maybe it’ll keep turning to the east and get out of town again.
Nick:                         Yeah. Shoot, this has been one of the weirder hurricanes, and I’ve lived in Florida 30 years. One of the stranger hurricanes that I’ve followed. It kind of just got big and no one really knew where it was going to go. Then all of a sudden, it just stopped moving.
Andrew:                 Literally stopped moving.
Nick:                         It just stalled. I’ve never seen for a full 24 hours. Unfortunately, for the people in the Bahamas, in Grand Bahama it stalled right over them. Hurricane Dorian was literally, on Monday I think it was, just if it was moving was moving west at one mile an hour.
Andrew:                 Right.
Nick:                         We were all kind of just in a holding pattern. Florida cancelled everything from classes, and good for Florida, making sure the students are safe. Cancelled classes Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, so there was nothing going on. Players were allowed to go home. We talked about that. Allowed to go home. They had to come back Sunday, but Monday was kind of just a meeting day. I think a light practice in the indoor, because you’re still wondering do you have anything you need. Got 100 guys on your team. You got to make sure they got water and batteries and all kinds of stuff, just in case the storm did come. Luckily, now it looks like it’s going to stay off the coast. The Gainesville Sun had an Alachua County official tell them that they don’t even think there’s a chance that Gainesville will get hurricane sized winds or winds that would register at hurricane sizes. Fortunate for us, and we’ll have football Saturday. This storm will kind of stay off the coast.
Andrew:                 I know this is Wednesday, and we usually don’t recap things, but since we didn’t get to recap things, and you had the UT Martin this weekend, so there’s not a ton to really preview here. We’ll do little bit more on Friday. Nick, what the hell happened on Saturday?
Nick:                         Saturday was wild. I mean, where do you even want to start? I guess we start with Tennessee.
Andrew:                 No. Let’s start with the first game that happened, and that was Florida State. Let me say this and get this out of the way, I was down sick all weekend. I only saw bits and pieces of every game. Did not watch a full game at all. I was in and out of falling asleep seeing Twitter was raving about Kendal Briles. Florida State was up big at half-time, or up pretty good amount.
Nick:                         Up 18 at one point.
Andrew:                 I wake back up, see Twitter, and it’s a three-point ballgame or four-point ballgame, Boise State’s about to take the lead. Flip it on there, and Boise State dominated the rest of the game. In a game that was supposed to be in Jacksonville.
Nick:                         Yeah. So, strange, it was originally scheduled as a home-and-home. Florida State wanted the game to be in Jacksonville. Then the game was moved from Jacksonville because of Dorian to Tallahassee.