Picks Column: Week 4
Sep. 20, 2019Nobody had a particularly good trip to Lexington.
Nobody had a particularly good trip to Lexington.
Have you ever wondered what it’s like for football players on game day? What they eat before the matchup? What their meetings are like prior to kickoff? What actually goes on inside one of Florida’s practices leading up the game?
It will be a strange feeling for Kyle Trask on Saturday. One he hasn’t felt in nearly seven years.
Florida coach Dan Mullen said Saturday that he likes his play calling to be about 50-50 in terms of rushing and passing. He went on to say that he likes to tip the scales toward the side of the run.
No. 9 Florida begins its three-game homestand and second conference game against the Tennessee Volunteers on Saturday. Both teams come into the matchup with a lot of questions still left to be answered, so here are three things Florida fans should look out for during the game:
Florida’s 29-21 comeback win over Kentucky on Saturday came at a cost.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Florida beat Kentucky despite itself.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Florida coach Dan Mullen’s worst fears were realized against Kentucky on Saturday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — It all came down to one kick.
Florida has its chance for revenge a year after Kentucky marched into Gainesville and ended its 31-year losing streak to UF with a resounding 27-16 victory.
Florida opens conference play against Kentucky in just three days, and a lot has happened since the Gators kicked off the season two and a half weeks ago. Injuries have already piled up for both teams, and young or inexperienced players will need to fill in.
Florida’s football team will likely be without two of its biggest playmakers on both sides of the ball when it takes the field Saturday in Lexington, Kentucky.
After I got home from covering Florida football’s 45-0 throttling Tennessee-Martin, something much more entertaining popped up on my Twitter timeline.
Early season contests against FCS teams can be tough to evaluate. Game plans are dumbed down, young players are constantly rotating in and, above all, the weak competition presents little opportunity for an honest appraisal of the team.
Florida’s victory over Miami two weeks ago wasn’t pretty.
One pass changed everything.
It took Florida more than a quarter of football to find the end zone against Tennessee-Martin.
The stakes for Florida’s home opener against Tennesse-Martin are drastically different from those surrounding its season opener two weeks ago. But the importance of what is essentially a tuneup game against an FCS opponent cannot be understated after the Gators’ blunders in their win over Miami.
Week 1 is officially in the books, and it was a doozy.