GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we recap the Florida Gators big win over Ole Miss on Saturday.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre recap how the Gators looked on Saturday and how the offense looked.
Andrew and Nick also breakdown how the Gators can improve on defense after giving up 31 points to Ole Miss.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:​What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, we had football, so that mean’s football is officially back, and it came back in a big way. 51-35. Gators offense comes out rolling. I believe that was an SEC record for yards in a game, 642 yards. Kyle Trask, Kyle Pitts, the two Kyles had a game.
Nick:​Yeah. First off, first things first, after watching football the first couple weeks it was nice to get some SEC football back. Now I’m sure Jeremy Pruitt and Will Muschamp didn’t make it look so, what I’m about to say.
Andrew:​A&M and Vanderbilt either.
Nick:​Just watching Florida and Ole Miss and watching Kentucky, who I thought was going to play better, but Kentucky and Auburn. I missed me some SEC football. This other stuff has been okay, but I missed some SEC football, that’s for sure.
Andrew:​A&M was terrible against Vandy. Miami embarrassed Florida State once again. What an interception. What are you doing, Florida State? That might be worse than blocking yourself.
Nick:​They’re really bad, and they’re going to be bad for a little while. I was talking to a buddy of mine who played baseball for them. Obviously, played sport for them, huge fan. I told him last year, you guys are in for a long rebuild. He’s like, the players are there. I talked to him last night, and he’s like, this sucks. I was like, I told you. You’re in for a long rebuild.
Andrew:​The thing about it is they’re still recruiting terrible. I always say this, and there’s no science, I guess is the best way to say this, but when you have a new coach that comes in, obviously when he comes in that year recruiting is not usually going to have a huge uptick, but the following year of his first full year is when you really see how he’s going to be.
For me, Nick, Florida and Florida State, when they’re going good, they should be battling each other for recruits. When Florida State lost to Georgia Tech, people on the message board asked me, who’s Florida going to go poach from their class? The answer is nobody. Florida’s not recruiting anybody Florida State is. Miami’s not recruiting anybody Florida State is. That’s just how bad it simply is. To me, that tells you everything you need to know about the state of the program at Florida State. It’s also this. You know this as good as anyone. It seems like there’s always one program in the big three that’s going to be down. It’s Florida State’s time to be down.
Nick:​Not to kick a dog while it’s down, but they’re awful. They’re horrendous. Clemson legitimately has an opportunity to go put 100 on them.
Andrew:​Yeah. It’s really bad. If you’re a Florida State fan, and you were mad that you didn’t play Florida this year, what are you doing? What are you doing? Florida would score 70 on you guys. It’s just bad. Here’s the thing, Nick. Maybe I’m looking at this with some bias, but I don’t even think Miami’s really that good, and Miami just embarrassed them.
Nick:​I think Miami’s good. In that exact tone. I think Miami’s good. It’s not like I’m saying, Alabama looked good yesterday. Not like that.
Andrew:​Clemson has looked good.
Nick:​Clemson has looked good. Miami looks fine. They’re going to be completely exposed by Clemson in two weeks. They have to play them on October 10th, and Clemson will expose Miami.
Andrew:​Right. That’s the thing. You look at the ACC, and it’s Clemson and everybody else. That’s just what it is. Clemson and everybody else.
Nick:​For as much as people in the ACC, when people try to knock the SEC,