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Week 14: #6 Florida Gators 31, Tennessee Volunteers 19 - 12/5/2020

Escambia94

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The #6 Florida Gators (7-1) head into Knoxville, Tennessee to take on the Volunteers (2-5) in the 48-degree weather at 3:30 PM on Saturday, December 5, 2020. The Gators are favored by 17.5 and the o/u is 61.5. Florida leads the series 29-20 all-time and has won the last 2 under Dan Mullen 34-3 and 47-21. The last time the Gators played in Knoxville in December was in a 32-34 loss on 12/1/2001 in a game that was rescheduled due to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Gators are 1-3 all-time against Tennessee in December (split between Knoxville and Jacksonville). Dan Mullen was 1-0 against Tennessee as the Mississippi State head coach and is 7-0 against the Vols as an offensive coordinator and head coach.

The Gators can clinch the SEC East and earn the McElwain Trophy by winning this game. The Gator offense is #2 in the nation in passing yardage (369.6 YPG/F), and the Volunteers are #79 in passing defense (243.6 YPG/A). The Gators are #7 in offensive PPG with 45.8 points, and the Volunteers are #75 in defensive PPG with 31.5.

Key players to watch: #KyleToKyle and RB Eric Gray. Trask and Pitts have hooked up for 11 TDs in just 5.5 games after developing chemistry on the scout team together 3 years ago. Eric Gray is the only player on Tennessee worth watching. Gray is 4th in the SEC in rushing at 93 yards a game. That's it.

The Tennessee Vols did scrounge up 464 yards (242 passing, 222 rushing) in their last outing, a 17-30 loss to Auburn. Oddly enough, the Vols out-gained the War Eagle Tigers 464-385 and managed more first downs, 28-23. Harrison Bailey will likely be the starting QB due to COVID. Bailey's career stats: 14/23 175 YDS 0 TD 2 INT 107.4 RAT 49.3 QBR. The Vols complete crapped the bed against Arkansas by volunteering 24 points in the 3rd quarter after leading 13-0 at the half. Tennessee was out-gained 292-413 yards with 2 turnovers in that loss. The Vols were out-gained 302-587 in their 17-48 loss to Alabama.

The Gators have a 99% chance of winning this game. Harrison Bailey is a former 4-star/ 5-star QB, and the Gators do have problems against the run. The Gators will likely throw for 350 yards and will work on the running game and maybe hit 100 yards rushing. I predict a Gator victory, 32-14.
 

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The #6 Florida Gators (7-1) head into Knoxville, Tennessee to take on the Volunteers (2-5) in the 48-degree weather at 3:30 PM on Saturday, December 5, 2020. The Gators are favored by 17.5 and the o/u is 61.5. Florida leads the series 29-20 all-time and has won the last 2 under Dan Mullen 34-3 and 47-21. The last time the Gators played in Knoxville in December was in a 32-34 loss on 12/1/2001 in a game that was rescheduled due to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Gators are 1-3 all-time against Tennessee in December (split between Knoxville and Jacksonville). Dan Mullen was 1-0 against Tennessee as the Mississippi State head coach and is 7-0 against the Vols as an offensive coordinator and head coach.

The Gators can clinch the SEC East and earn the McElwain Trophy by winning this game. The Gator offense is #2 in the nation in passing yardage (369.6 YPG/F), and the Volunteers are #79 in passing defense (243.6 YPG/A). The Gators are #7 in offensive PPG with 45.8 points, and the Volunteers are #75 in defensive PPG with 31.5.

Key players to watch: #KyleToKyle and RB Eric Gray. Trask and Pitts have hooked up for 11 TDs in just 5.5 games after developing chemistry on the scout team together 3 years ago. Eric Gray is the only player on Tennessee worth watching. Gray is 4th in the SEC in rushing at 93 yards a game. That's it.

The Tennessee Vols did scrounge up 464 yards (242 passing, 222 rushing) in their last outing, a 17-30 loss to Auburn. Oddly enough, the Vols out-gained the War Eagle Tigers 464-385 and managed more first downs, 28-23. Harrison Bailey will likely be the starting QB due to COVID. Bailey's career stats: 14/23 175 YDS 0 TD 2 INT 107.4 RAT 49.3 QBR. The Vols complete crapped the bed against Arkansas by volunteering 24 points in the 3rd quarter after leading 13-0 at the half. Tennessee was out-gained 292-413 yards with 2 turnovers in that loss. The Vols were out-gained 302-587 in their 17-48 loss to Alabama.

The Gators have a 99% chance of winning this game. Harrison Bailey is a former 4-star/ 5-star QB, and the Gators do have problems against the run. The Gators will likely throw for 350 yards and will work on the running game and maybe hit 100 yards rushing. I predict a Gator victory, 32-14.
LOL ...”The McElwain Trophy”?
Good one!
As I noted elsewhere (along with my acknowledgement and continued approval of the latest uniform choices (this “blue (helmet)/white (shirt)/bluepants” combo, while not as CLEAN as the “all-whites” from last time is nonetheless a real nice look), I too am fairly confident in our reptiles in this one, the “cold” notwithstanding.
And it’s MORE than “the match-ups”—though they certainly would seem to support my gut-level take just on the relative “eye-tests”!
It’s time for us to begin putting together more stretches of “Take charge!” dominance-on-demand down the stretch here...a certain sense of determined dissatisfaction with their OWN imperfection is warranted at this point.
I expect them to be more SELF-motivated in pulling it together and putting this one away earlier.
Mullens and his staff will have them ready: Will they begin to more thoroughly respond?
The only reason NOT to match or exceed the Alabama score would be that they DO “put ‘em away” early, then shut things down and let a defense finally having a complete game just tie them DOWN the rest of the way.
But “Kyle and Co.” are quite capable of putting up “pinball numbers” before then ANYWAY...and given the Heisman and the circumstances, perhaps we can “have it both ways”?
Or maybe I’m just being greedily OVER-confident...The good news is that while that may be true in my case (and among already spoiled 2020 Gator fans), I don’t think that is a real danger for our TEAM:
Neither Mullens, Trask nor the REST of the “team leaders” will let that happen.
These guys appear to take NOTHING for granted!
 

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I would like to see the Blue Helmets. Did they keep the white helmets (the ones that say Gators on both sides or was it just the one with Gators on one side and the letter F on the other)?
 

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I would like to see the Blue Helmets. Did they keep the white helmets (the ones that say Gators on both sides or was it just the one with Gators on one side and the letter F on the other)?
Then you’ll be happy to know it is a NEW BLUE HELMET LOOK for today’s game: Royal Blue with ORANGE script “GATORS” outlined in white. White Jersey and blue pants completes it, along with a new pair of orange’n’blue low-top cleats!
As I say, altogether a nice look!
 

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Good morning, oh my brothers...
“Killing time” this morning watching A&M having more trouble early on than they ought to be having with a fairly inept Auburn squad led by a likewise “over-matched-by-HIMSELF” Bo Nix.
Little likelihood TAMU ultimately loses this one (even WITH these early self-destructive sequences: Aggies just drive the field, then managed to flounder inside the Auburn 5 yd line, THEN miss the chip shot/consolation fieldgoal).
Meanwhile OSU steamrolling in their game against Mich St—which IS getting played and IS making them (at least for the moment) look like the better, more deserving team in the “beauty pageant” that the CFB Playoff rankings have become.
I’ll tell you though: If the Aggies manage to LOSE this game, that’s IT for any hope or argument they and their fans might have.
There’s a lesson here for ALL of us...
On the other hand, I don’t necessarily want our guys WATCHING the scoreboard to begin with—or seeing THIS one AT ALL!!! They need to just be focused on their OWN focus and state-of-mind! I feel like they have already found a certain “proper balance” and calm determination.
“Look to YOURSELVES, Gators, and you’ll be FINE!”
 

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A lotta revisionist talk now about “how much is at stake for TENNESSEE here”(!) this afternoon/evening—but I am staying with MY “gut feeling”—That the GATORS are “coming around” at “just the right moment” THEMSELVES:
I think we’ll know pretty quickly in this one: Sure, the Vols will probably do all they can to “smack us upside the head HARD” at the start, try and throw US off our game early in the early going, put us on our heels and not let up. The Gators HAVE shown a weakness for that in first halves this season...and I expect that to be UT’s “opening gambit”.
For us, then, it’s simple: Weather the early storm, withstand it, “take their best shot” then assert ourselves and begin to take over—dominate and pull away.
I don’t anticipate it taking a punt-return late in the first half to BEGIN to “get it done” this time.
Ideally, we go INTO the half with a comfortable lead. It is up to US not to let THEM “BREATHE”!
And we have the overall talent and momentum now to DO that.
I expect Mullens, and yes, Grantham and the REST of the coaching staff to have this team poised and ready for a more complete game FROM KICKOFF FORWARD!
 

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Look: NO ONE is Gonna “hand us” ANYTHING—but we KNOW that!
This TEAM knows that!
Talk all you want about how UT “has the tools” to slow us down (ie. “the running game” to keep the UF offense off the field)—The FACT is that only WE can STOP OURSELVES!
Thanks to the leadership on AND off the field, THIS Gator team DOESN’T LOOK AHEAD. They focus on the game ahead, the team IN FRONT OF THEM each week. That will come in especially handy come NEXT week—but for now, I don’t see them having ANY trouble coming out fired up and ready to go against this Vols team. The weather and the setting on the road will only serve to HELP them focus from the very start.
I sure HOPE that’s true; if it’s not, then we have, WILL have “bigger problems”.
These are basically “Tune-up Games” leading up to the SEC Championship for us, really. You don’t want to UNDERestimate your pending foes—but we SHOULD be able to handle them. Here we go.
 

Escambia94

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Trask is short-arming the ball. He needs to step into his throws or else it is going to be a bad day.
 

Escambia94

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Gators are missing some key players.
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Escambia94

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I knew this would be a slow start. Right now this is not a Heisman candidate leading a national championship team.
 

Escambia94

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8 SR WR Tre Grimes atones for the dropped pass with a 4-yard TD catch from 11 GR SR QB Kyle Trask. 35 TD this season ties him with Danny Wuerffel.
 

Escambia94

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Vols should have had that fake punt. Bad special teams play by the Gators, but they were saved by bad Tennessee execution.
 

Escambia94

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Down goes Trask. Vols get their first sack of the game. Trask was dancing back there.
 

Escambia94

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Tennessee is getting favorable match-ups, but not executing. Only sheer incompetence is keeping them in the game. Gator secondary is out of position. Gator linebackers are not tackling. Gator kicker is missing. Gator QB is playing like a freshman. At least the punter is playing well.
 

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