{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F0813b6ec-2fc5-42bd-9c6b-8e3a7ed70e4e","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Podcast: Previewing the Florida Gators opener against FAU\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/0813b6ec-2fc5-42bd-9c6b-8e3a7ed70e4e\"></iframe>","title":"Podcast: Previewing the Florida Gators opener against FAU","description":"GatorCountry brings you our Friday prediction podcast for the Florida Gators&#8217; season opener against FAU at home on Saturday night.<br />\nAndrew Spivey and David Soderquist breakdown the keys for both teams as we look at the ways the Gators have the advantage in this game against the Owls.<br />\nAndrew and David also give you three players to watch for the Gators on Saturday, plus we predict several games around the country.<br />\nTRANSCRIPT:<br />\n&nbsp;<br />\nDavid:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What\u2019s up folks of Gator Country? This is your boy, David Soderquist, along with Andrew Spivey. Andrew, man, gearing up for FAU, the first game of the season. I\u2019m pretty pumped and pretty excited. I\u2019m excited to get down there, mainly to tailgate and to watch the game. I\u2019ll be sitting down there where the Gators come out and taking a few videos. I\u2019m pretty excited. I\u2019ve never had seats there, so I\u2019m ready to get down there.<br />\nAndrew:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dan Mullen said something on Wednesday. I knew it, but it didn\u2019t really resonate with me that you really haven\u2019t had a full crowd since the Orange Bowl.<br />\nDavid:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Right.<br />\nAndrew:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s over 600 days. Is the crowd going to be rocking and sold out for FAU? Absolutely not, but I think it\u2019s going to be a good crowd on Saturday night in the Swamp. Dan Mullen said, \u201cYou can\u2019t simulate that.\u201d There\u2019s no crowd noise you can pump into the stadium. I\u2019m excited. I\u2019m excited for football in general. You have Tennessee-Bowling Green on Thursday, and then you obviously have Miami and Alabama before the Florida game on Saturday. While Florida\u2019s playing, you have Georgia-Clemson, and then you have Notre Dame that\u2019s going to put the beatdown on FSU on Sunday night. That\u2019s a little primetime football. Welcome to TV, FSU.<br />\nDavid:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Welcome to mainstream TV. It hasn\u2019t hit you in a while, has it?<br />\nAndrew:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah. Will we see the teacher with his book is the question?<br />\nDavid:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t know. He\u2019ll probably slap them around a little bit with it.<br />\nAndrew:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot of good stuff. People always say, do you really want a tune up game, or do you want a top 10, top 25 matchup to start the year? There\u2019s arguments both ways. There really is. For me personally, I love to see those top 25 matchups to start the year. Even Florida-Miami Week 0 two years ago I thought was good. Florida-Michigan a few years back when it was in AT&amp;T stadium. I like it. I think it\u2019s good for football. Nobody wants to watch Florida-FAU 50 times around the country.<br />\nDavid:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When you\u2019re starting the football season, you obviously want to have good games lined up on the slate. That\u2019s usually what they try to do every year is get two or three of those good games in there. What I love about the first game of the season, and I mentioned it last week, you get games on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. It\u2019s Labor Day Weekend too, so you get an extra day off to watch all those games too.<br />\nAndrew:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019re taping this on Wednesday, and my man, Bill Clark, up at UAB going to kick off here in a little bit. That\u2019ll be a good one. It wouldn\u2019t be game week though if you didn\u2019t have the depth chart that comes out.<br />\nDavid:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The depth chart. The dreaded depth chart that everybody loves to hate, and some of the smarter people out there just already know what\u2019s going to happen. It\u2019s like when Steve Spurrier talked about how sometimes he would look at practice, and he\u2019d be like, I\u2019ll just pencil him in here. I\u2019ll just pencil him in there. That\u2019s kind of really what Dan Mullen does, right? He kind of just pencils somebody in there, and then tomorrow it could be somebody else. You might even see Demarkcus Bowman out there this week. You may not. He may release another depth chart before the game.<br />\nAndrew:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You\u2019re saying he must put all the names in a hat and shake it up and draw it.<br />\n","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/ae8bf72e-c499-48c1-bcc5-326e25a9c266/gclogo-podcast.jpg"}