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Podcast: Friday predictions for games around the country during UF’s bye week

October 23, 2020

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we bring you our Friday prediction podcast for games around the country during the Florida Gators’ bye week.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre talk about what Dan Mullen had to say during his teleconference on Wednesday as he updated the status of the Gators.
Andrew and Nick also pick several games around the country from this weekend’s slate of games.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, we’re back. Couple more days and we’ll finally have football back. Dan Mullen did talk on Wednesday. No real change there, except for there was one new positive case on Tuesday, from Tuesday’s test, that was on Wednesday. For the most part, Dan Mullen said everyone’s back, and everyone should be back and ready when they open the facility back on Monday. He said they’re opening it back on Monday.
Nick:                         Yeah. They’re going to be shorthanded. Florida’s going to be shorthanded against Missouri. It is what it is. Even if you have enough numbers, which Florida will, it’s two weeks for a lot of guys with no lifting, no running, no football activities, only Zoom meetings and going over film on your iPad, and some of them fighting a virus that attacks your respiratory system. Then you’re going to open up the facility five days before a game, and that’s just is what it is. That’s where we are in 2020 with Covid. Do I think Florida is going to be 100% when they play Missouri? No. But that’s the game. Florida literally will play from Halloween until December 12th, every Saturday they have a game scheduled. There’s no more breaks.
Andrew:                 Right. That’s kind of the same thing for Georgia too. It’s bad luck, but I would say the best news of it all is that they’re playing football and able to do that. A lot of people didn’t think that would happen, so that’s a positive for that. You and I were going through some numbers. We’ll try our best here to explain it. If you test positive, you’re quarantined for 10 days. You’re out of 10 days. You can’t come back to the facility or anything else. If you’re in the contact tracing, it’s 14 days, and you can explain that here in a second, Nick. So, from everything we’re basing our numbers off of, and we’re not subject if they’ve had new positive tests, or when they had the exact positive test, we’re just basing it off of what we’ve been told. Most everyone who’s had a positive test should be back no later than Sunday. The guys who had the contact tracing will probably be out until Tuesday. Isn’t that what we came up with, Nick?
Nick:                         It all depends on when you tested positive. If you tested positive, let me pull this calendar up again. First, before I get the calendar out, let me explain. If you test positive, the reason why you’re in for 10 days is because they will monitor you while you’re in there. Obviously, if you’re a really bad case, and you’re experiencing severe symptoms, you’ll be in quarantine for more than 10 days, but for the most part Florida’s players are feeling either asymptomatic or very mild symptoms. A lot of it is just fatigue, and that’s another factor of what I said earlier. Are you going to be 100% when you play? No. There’s people who’ve had Covid, and they say, I felt fatigued doing normal stuff for weeks after I was testing negative.
So, it’s 10 days if you test positive. They’ll start testing you again, and then once you get a couple negative tests, and once you’re not exhibiting symptoms anymore, you’re out in 10 days. The reason why it’s 14 days for someone who’s tested negative, but has been in contact with somebody, is that the virus can take 7, 10, 12, 14 days once you get it to really manifest itself inside of a person and then test positive. Most of the question is why is somebody who’s tested negative in longer than somebody who...