GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we continue to preview the Florida Gators vs. Auburn Tigers game on Saturday in the Swamp.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre are joined by Al.com’s Tom Green to get his take on the game as he gives us the keys for Auburn on Saturday.
Andrew and Nick also continue to breakdown the game and discuss the ways the Gators can run the ball differently on Saturday against a very good Auburn defense.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, Auburn-Florida. It’s getting close. The momentum, I think, the anticipation is rising. Everyone’s fired up.
Nick:                         And every right to be fired up. It’s a huge game. Two top 10 ranked teams. Auburn and Florida, not really in our lifetime, yeah, in our lifetime, but not really recently, huge rivals. They played every year from 1927 through 2002. Obviously, except for when World War II was going on. Huge rival. Auburn holds a 26-8-1 advantage against Florida in Auburn, but they’re not playing in Auburn this year.
Andrew:                 Yeah. It’s definitely going back to the Spurrier kick, that kind of stuff. It was a rivalry. I’m like Dan Mullen. I’d like to see this game played more often.
Nick:                         Dan Mullen hasn’t really given, he’s basically been saying that he would like, I mean, Auburn’s only going to come to Florida once every 12 years. So, he’s on record saying he would like that to change. Hasn’t really given a way to change it, whether that’s getting rid of cross-divisional opponents, which I think people don’t want to do with LSU, because that game has come to mean so much, or going to nine games and basically have three teams from the West that you would play every year.
Andrew:                 I mean, I don’t know the answer. Somebody asked me that the other day on a radio show. What would you do? I said, I don’t know. I don’t want to get rid of the LSU game. I love that game.
Nick:                         You’re not going to do it, because Alabama-Tennessee.
Andrew:                 Georgia-Auburn.
Nick:                         Georgia-Auburn. Those games aren’t going away.
Andrew:                 Right. That’s what I said. Those games aren’t going away for sure. The response back was does anyone really care about watching Missouri-Arkansas, or does anyone really care about Ole Miss-Vandy? No. Absolutely not. Nobody cares about those few games outside of really the three, honestly. Alabama-Tennessee, Auburn-Georgia, and Florida-LSU. I think those are the only three that people really care about.
Nick:                         Yeah. I mean, I can’t imagine the hell that would come down if …
Andrew:                 If Alabama and Tennessee don’t play, hell will rise in Alabama, because people hate Tennessee. When I say hate, you know that I mean hate.
Nick:                         Yeah. I don’t know what the answer is. Dan Mullen doesn’t know what the answer is. It’s kind of like what I said about Georgia. We talked about that, I think, before the season. I’d like to see it be a rotate every four years between the three sites. That way, if you’re at Florida for four years, you get a chance to go and play at Athens, and you play twice in Jacksonville and once in Gainesville.
Andrew:                 Right.
Nick:                         I just think it’s really cool for fans. It would be really cool for fans and for the players. If I’m a Florida student, I would love the opportunity to go see a game in Jordan-Hare. That’s one of the great environments in college football, and certainly in the SEC. I’d love the opportunity to go see LSU. I mean, they’ll get that opportunity now, finally. It’s been a while since Florida’s been down to LSU. But to see Alabama. They got to see Mississippi State,