***OFFICIAL GAME THREAD: UF vs UGA***

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@ScottStricklin: So, both @CollegeGameDay AND SEC Nation will be in Jacksonville next Saturday.

It’ll be quite a scene. #GoGators
 

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F V C K them all. F v c k Mark Richt, Herschel, Larry Munson, Deborah Norville, Lindsey Scott (f v c k him twice), Buck Belue, Goldberg, Vince Dooley (and all of his family, friends and neighbors), Quincy Carter, Frank Sinkwich, Lewis Grizzard, R.E.M. and the B-52's, David Pollack, Uga (every last flea bitten one), Wally Butts, Hines Ward, Jake Scott, the ridiculous "Arch", Champ Bailey, Newman ("Hello Newman"), Charley Trippi, the Athens City Council, Garrison Hearst, Bill Stanfill, all Stinchcombs, Ray Goff, Will Muschamp, Alton Brown, Pat Dye, John Isner, Zell Miller (and his "legacy"), Fran Tarkenton, anyone who wears red and black, Kim Basinger, Terrell Davis, Kirby Smart, Charles Herty, Jim Donnan, Ryan Seacrest, Jarvis Jones, Chip Beck, Knowson Moreno, Kevin Butler, Bubba Watson, Mark Schlabach, Catfish Smith, Dominique Wilkins, and Pop Warner. Yes, f v c k them all.
 

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F V C K them all. F v c k Mark Richt, Herschel, Larry Munson, Deborah Norville, Lindsey Scott (f v c k him twice), Buck Belue, Goldberg, Vince Dooley (and all of his family, friends and neighbors), Quincy Carter, Frank Sinkwich, Lewis Grizzard, R.E.M. and the B-52's, David Pollack, Uga (every last flea bitten one), Wally Butts, Hines Ward, Jake Scott, the ridiculous "Arch", Champ Bailey, Newman ("Hello Newman"), Charley Trippi, the Athens City Council, Garrison Hearst, Bill Stanfill, all Stinchcombs, Ray Goff, Will Muschamp, Alton Brown, Pat Dye, John Isner, Zell Miller (and his "legacy"), Fran Tarkenton, anyone who wears red and black, Kim Basinger, Terrell Davis, Kirby Smart, Charles Herty, Jim Donnan, Ryan Seacrest, Jarvis Jones, Chip Beck, Knowson Moreno, Kevin Butler, Bubba Watson, Mark Schlabach, Catfish Smith, Dominique Wilkins, and Pop Warner. Yes, f v c k them all.
Bought f v cking time!
 

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F V C K them all. F v c k Mark Richt, Herschel, Larry Munson, Deborah Norville, Lindsey Scott (f v c k him twice), Buck Belue, Goldberg, Vince Dooley (and all of his family, friends and neighbors), Quincy Carter, Frank Sinkwich, Lewis Grizzard, R.E.M. and the B-52's, David Pollack, Uga (every last flea bitten one), Wally Butts, Hines Ward, Jake Scott, the ridiculous "Arch", Champ Bailey, Newman ("Hello Newman"), Charley Trippi, the Athens City Council, Garrison Hearst, Bill Stanfill, all Stinchcombs, Ray Goff, Will Muschamp, Alton Brown, Pat Dye, John Isner, Zell Miller (and his "legacy"), Fran Tarkenton, anyone who wears red and black, Kim Basinger, Terrell Davis, Kirby Smart, Charles Herty, Jim Donnan, Ryan Seacrest, Jarvis Jones, Chip Beck, Knowson Moreno, Kevin Butler, Bubba Watson, Mark Schlabach, Catfish Smith, Dominique Wilkins, and Pop Warner. Yes, f v c k them all.

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Florida football: First look at Gators’ keys to success in the Cocktail Party

1. Slow the Georgia power running game
The Dawgs didn’t look it against LSU, but this is a dangerous and balanced offense led once again by an effective power running game.
Despite being limited to 113 yards rushing and only 3.8 yards per carry at LSU, Georgia still ranks 24th nationally in rushing offense and averages 5.8 yards per carry on the ground. Georgia likewise ranks No. 6 nationally in rushing efficiency offense despite the LSU debacle and is 20th in explosive runs.
Elijah “The New Deal” Holyfield, a powerful and fast back who loves to square up tacklers downhill, is the most frightening runner for a Gators defense that enters the game ranked a concerning 10th in the SEC in tackling rate. Holyfield averages 7.5 yards a carry and ranks second in the SEC in yards gained after contact, behind only Kentucky’s Benny Snell (Florida’s Jordan Scarlett is third).
Florida ranks 12th nationally in S&P+ defense and 21st nationally in total defense, but they rank only 73rd in rushing defense, largely thanks to missed tackles and the lack of a truly effective three-technique or pile-mover along the interior of the defensive line.
Georgia knows this, and this matchup is the biggest concern for the Gators and the key to the football game.

2. Limit explosive plays down the field
This matchup is slightly more favorable for Florida, but it’s still “Advantage Georgia,” in our view.
Florida’s defense is outstanding at limiting successful plays by opposing offenses (opponent success rate 33.4 percent is 9th best nationally), but the Gators have two clear defensive weaknesses.
The first is run defense, discussed above.
The second is the Gators give up too many explosive plays.
Some of that goes with the Todd Grantham territory, but against a team with Georgia’s perimeter playmakers, that’s a big worry.
Georgia will enter the Cocktail Party an impressive 18th nationally in explosiveness and they’ll face a Gators defense that ranks 63rdnationally in limiting explosive plays.
As the above graphic demonstrates, Jake Fromm has improved as a passer in 2018 but struggled to hit big throws downfield this year in the aftermath of Javon Wims’s departure for the NFL.
Still, Georgia isn’t without home run hitters, as Mecole Hardmon (15.0), Terry Godwin (21.4) and Jeremiah Holloman (21.3) each average 15 yards or more per reception.
If Florida is forced to bring extra help into the box to tackle Holyfield and D’Andre Swift in the running game, Georgia will be in an excellent position to take shots downfield and, as Kentucky demonstrated, Florida has been susceptible to big plays in the downfield passing game this season.

3. Get the pass rush going again
The Gators’ pass rush dominated Mississippi State and LSU, but was asleep at the wheel for much of the 11 a.m. Central Time kickoff at Vanderbilt last weekend. Not until a late sack by Jachai Polite stalled a Vanderbilt drive in the fourth quarter were the Gators able to sack Vandy quarterback Kyle Shurmer, and Florida struggled to get any consistent pressure against a Vanderbilt front not regarded as one of the SEC’s best units.
This is an area of the game that should favor Florida.
Polite leads the SEC in quarterback pressures on the season (23) and Jabari Zuniga is fourth (19). LSU is not quite as good up front as Florida defensively, but the Tigers whipped Georgia at the point of attack —which should make protecting Fromm better in Jacksonville a personal challenge to the Georgia line. Florida will need to rise to the occasion and get loose in the backfield against Georgia to limit the success of Jim Chaney’s offense in the passing game. All four of Fromm’s interceptions this year have come under pressure, and part of Florida’s formula for winning all season has been producing takeaways and short fields. This is a battle Florida must win to have a chance.

4. Stay composed and in the moment
Most of Florida’s upperclassmen have played in two SEC title games, meaning they have experience in a game of this magnitude.
It’s different when you are a leader, though, and it’s different when you haven’t played a game this big in a season or two.
Against a team as good as Georgia, adversity is inevitable. Bad plays will happen, and the Gators will need to rally and focus on the next play constantly, something they did successfully in the upset win over LSU.
Florida needs to stay in the moment and remember it earned the chance to play a football game this big by winning two other big football games — at Mississippi State and home against LSU —during the past month.
Florida’s composure and ability to stay in the moment will set the tone for limiting mental mistakes, something the Gators have struggled with at times this season. Florida has had double-digit penalty performances and unsportsmanlike conduct penalties in wins over Mississippi State and at Vanderbilt. the Gators simply aren’t good enough to give Georgia free yards and plays Saturday if they want to win.
 

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@DK_Thompson: Florida opens as +7.5 (+130) underdogs to Georgia. #Gators
 

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Smart calling out his LOS at mid-season...

Georgia football coach Kirby Smart saw warning signs, couldn’t avoid LSU trap

BATON ROUGE, La. — Georgia football coach Kirby Smart saw this one coming, and as it turned out, there was nothing he could do to prevent it.

The trap at LSU was real.

The Tigers (6-1, 3-1 SEC) were a hungry, talented team with the athletes to match up with the Bulldogs (6-1, 4-1). LSU had the quarterback and coaching staff capable of exploiting Georgia weaknesses that had surfaced throughout a 6-0 start that had some observers whistling by the graveyard.

LSU’s 36-16 victory Saturday at Tiger Stadium was as thorough as it was convincing, across the board, offense, defense, special teams and in the coaching booth.

There were signs: Missouri rushed for four touchdowns on UGA, Tennessee held Jake Fromm without a TD pass and sacked him three times, and Vanderbilt had 91 yards rushing in the first half a week before.

Smart called his team out at the time for its deficiencies, and he brought them back up against after the loss in Baton Rouge after accepting blame for the defeat.

“Look guys, we didn’t play real physical at Missouri, we didn’t play the way way needed to play at Missouri, Vanderbilt ran the ball on us,” Smart said. “Look, this is not just popping up out of the ground

“We’ve been telling our guys. And I really think they’ve listened and they understand, we just have to keep getting better.”

Smart challenged his team at the start of the week to match the Tigers’ physicality, and he and his players said in the days leading up to the loss that they would need to play their best game.

“They better knuckle up,” Smart had said. “We’re going to find out a lot about our team.”

It might just be a case of LSU being a better football team at this point of the season.

That would at least explain why Smart felt he needed to press with a fake field goal in the first quarter and his team down 3-0.

Georgia lost seven starters off last season’s SEC championship defense, leaving a suspect front seven and some youthful spots in the secondary.

The Tigers exposed both with bold play calling, a relentless run game chunk plays through the air.

It was going to be a tough matchup for the Bulldogs even had Smart chosen to kick a field goal on the first drive and Jake Fromm had a better day throwing the football.

Smart recognized this team’s deficiencies in spring drills and put the players through a rigorous fall camp filled with lots of ones on ones scrimmaging against one another.

The physical practices have continued into the season, Smart recognizing the Georgia team’s need for more growth and toughness.

The Bulldogs have been focused and prepared in each outing, but they are also the youngest team in the SEC with more than two-thirds of the roster freshmen and sophomores.

“We’ve got what we’ve got and we’re going to keep getting better, that’s the only thing we can do,” Smart said. “Our kids acknowledge we didn’t play our best game, and then today we have not gotten out of this team what we should get out of them, and that’s on me as the leader, us as the coaches, and all of the players have to buy into that.”

Smart said he’ll challenge his players during the bye week to define their identity, the desired one having not been completely on display since a third quarter dismantling of South Carolina the second week of the season.

“That’s where we’ve got to look ourselves in the mirror and say OK, who are we? Is this who we are?” Smart said. “We’ve consistently not played as physical as we need to on the defensive line, and we haven’t been as consistent as we need to offensively.

“So if that’s if who we are, we’ve got to get better. And that’s what we’re going to try to do in the off week, guys.”
 

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