***OFFICIAL GAME THREAD: Florida vs Tennessee***

[Gator Fever]

I hope we do well, but I just don't have a good feeling about this one.

I have a bad feeling also.

 

[Jenny On The Railroad]

Go Gators...

Muschamp will probably order Roper to try and wear the Tennessee defense down with a lot of running the ball but I am not sure if that tactic will work or not. Maybe we will get lucky and hit one of those deep passes early. I kind of feel bad for the players knowing they are essentially playing for their coach's job.

The players are in a bad position in several ways.

less than 3 hours to kick off

 

[Coach9]

Think forecast is breezy. Up to 20MPH. Could effect passing game a bit

 

[Gator Fever]

Think forecast is breezy. Up to 20MPH. Could effect passing game a bit

Maybe it will keep Driskel from overthrowing on those deep passes - against the wind anyway.

 

[Bernardo de la Paz]

Alright gators let's curb stomp these hillbillies.

 

[HogtownGator]

Just read on Twitter the Gator plane didn't have a staircase and team had to sit on the tarmac in Knox for an hour. Forgot the staircase?

 

[Coach9]

BLOW THE SLIDE!

 

[Coach9]

Shame that the Miss St./TA&M is the same time as ours. Interesting matchup. State's D-Line has the talent to throttle Sumlin's offense if they play it right.

 

[deuce]

I think we already know where this team is going

Not really... :fingertap:

 

[deuce]

I think we win inspite of Muschamp and his Caveman Mentality.

The wild card continues to be JD in my mind. As long as he plays inconsistently we can win or lose every game.

Go Gators!


Going to mow the grass now and try and calm my stomach.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

The reality is that this Tinerc team sucks. It is the kind of team we should beat even with Mushcramp negating the talent on the field. The type of game we should win even with Driskel Driskelin.

Yet we've lost so many of those.

 

[CaribGator]

There has to be improvement. We had the spring ball, summer players only, fall practice and now a few games. No more bullsh*t excuses about "fixing it" "correct that" etc. We stomped the cupcake as we should have, barely beat KY at home which shouldn't have been so close, then got slapped around on both sides of the ball by bama. This is TN, even if they have improved like KY, we should be able to handle them with ease. If we struggle because the coaching staff did not prepare the team better after a bye week, then the guy who has been saying for 3+ years "that's on me" needs to be sent packing.

We need this win bad! Go Gators. And may the football gods bless our qb with proper touch, the vision to read a blitz and make a proper call, the ability to decide correctly on the option and some leadership, amen.

 

[Coach9]

Usually not a big fan of the tricked up Unis. But the helmets TA&M are wearing today are pretty sweet.
Might blind you if the sun catches them right.

 

[HogtownGator]

First meeting of Gators and Vols since 1955 when neither team has been ranked.

 

[Gatorious]

First meeting of Gators and Vols since 1955 when neither team has been ranked.

News and Events of 1955
1955

• Nikolai A. Bulganin becomes Soviet premier, replacing Malenkov (Feb. 8). Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533
• Churchill resigns (April 5); Anthony Eden succeeds him (April 6).
• Federal Republic of West Germany becomes a sovereign state (May 5).
• The Soviet Union and seven East European countries sign the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense treaty (May 14).
• Argentina ousts dictator Juan Perón (Sept. 19).
• US starts sending $216 million in aid to Vietnam.
• The US, UK, USSR, and France meet at a summit in Geneva.

Nikolai A. Bulganin becomes Soviet premier, replacing Malenkov (Feb. 8). Churchill resigns; Anthony Eden succeeds him (April 6). West Germany becomes a sovereign state (May 5). Western European Union (WEU) comes into being (May 6). Warsaw Pact, east European mutual defense agreement, signed (May 14). Argentina ousts Perón (Sept. 19). President Eisenhower suffers coronary thrombosis in Denver (Sept. 24). Rosa Parks refuses to sit at the back of the bus. Martin Luther King, Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery, Ala., bus system (Dec. 1); desegregated service begins Dec. 21, 1956. AFL and CIO become one organization—AFL-CIO (Dec. 5). Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof wins Pulitzer.


Read more: 1950 – 1959 World History | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A00052...#ixzz3FBt4jgt3

 

[Jbossgator8]

ZERO excuses today with us having 2 weeks to prepare for this game!! Our guys should be sky high and ready to play and SHOULD be sharp. I just hope we have shored up our defense and our offense is clicking and our play calling is good and keeping Tenn off balance. We should win but....we just never know what we are gonna get with this team. Go Gators!! Hoping for the best here....

 

[Coach9]

Tebow on Driskel: "It's more than just having potential. you have to have competitive excellence. He really needs to step it up."

 

[Zambo]

Beat 'em Beat 'em
Buck 'em Buck 'em
Lay 'em out and really
Fight!

 

[Ray Finkle]

Tebow on Driskel: "It's more than just having potential. you have to have competitive excellence. He really needs to step it up."

Can't argue with that

 

[Jenny On The Railroad]

Got a chuckle from this, pessimist or realist that I am, depending on your view.- someone on another forum wrote- "Our quick strike offense will take the crowd out of the game.I imagine that's what we have planned. "

smh although I suppose it cannot entirely be ruled out.in some warp of the universe It is a pleasant thought.