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Podcast: Friday prediction for the Florida Gators vs. Texas A&M

October 09, 2020

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we bring you our Friday prediction podcast for the Florida Gators vs. Texas A&M game on Saturday.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre give you their keys for the Gators to beat the Aggies on Saturday on the road.
Andrew and Nick also pick three players to watch for the Gators on Saturday, plus we pick several games around the country.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:​What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, we’re back. We’re ready for Friday predictions for Gators-Texas A&M. My oh my, does the week just go by so much better when there’s games on Saturday to play.
Nick:​Yeah. It certainly does. Got a good slate of games. You got the Red River, they’re calling it the Red River Recession, with Texas and Oklahoma. Tennessee and Georgia. Florida and A&M. Miami-Clemson. Got a good slate of games this week.
Andrew:​Finally we’re getting into that heart of the SEC schedule that has pretty much not changed. You look at next week. It’s Alabama-Georgia, Florida-LSU. The SEC schedule that was kind of scheduled already before all this, so we’regetting into some normalcy in the country a little bit. Obviously, Florida-A&M wasn’t a scheduled game, but still should be interesting. Looks like the weather’s going to be good out there, even though the hurricane did move a little bit more west. Moved the LSU-Missouri game to Missouri, moved the Alabama-Ole Miss game back in time a little bit. Looks like weather will be good, and Florida should be going into the game pretty healthy, for the most part.
Nick:​Yeah. Just a bit of news, because I’ve been asked about it a bunch. LSU-Missouri was supposed to be a night kickoff at LSU. That game has changed, because of the hurricane. They’re playing at Missouri, and they’re kicking off at noon, 11:00 AM Missouri time. That did not change Florida’s kickoff. They’re still at noon on ESPN.
Andrew:​From what I heard, the reason for that was the traveling back and not having two nights of hotel stay, and also with LSU being the home team, they kind of got to change that game to get back early to have preparations begin for Florida early on Sunday, instead of having to travel back. That’s kind of what I heard as to why the game was changed. Some people were asking why it wasn’t 9:00 in Columbia, and simply because LSU was the home team, so they’re not going to punish LSU for the hurricane, even though Joe Alleva likes to punish people for it.
Nick:​The other thing is too, I don’t like telling people what to think, but I think people are mad about the early kickoffs. Right now, wouldn’t you rather just an early kickoff? If you’renot going to be at the game, wouldn’t you rather just wake up, eat your breakfast, and then watch your team, and then enjoy the rest of the day? I get it when you want a night game, especially a home night game and have that rowdy crazy environment, but you’re not getting that anywhere.
Andrew:​Right. I think game times this year are a little overrated, for that standpoint of the crowd and that kind of thing. I do think it’s a little overrated. I know some people would rather have that primetime spot at 2:30, but the way I look at is I think every time slot is primetime this year, because everybody is wanting to watch the games.
Nick:​So hungry for any kind of football. You can start kickoff at 9:00 AM. The Pac-12 is about to have noon kickoffs California time, which is like a 9:00 AM kickoff. Breakfast with the Pac-12. Let me do it.
Andrew:​They’re going to be kicking off early and going. I get what you’re saying. Again, I do see some people saying they’d rather have the late, primetime, so they can get up and do things on Saturday morning, and I see it both ways. I’m not for or against it. For me, just like you, I’m all for the early kickoffs, and then I can watch the rest of the games around the country and kind of e...