And an offense we have likely never seen under Brian Schottenheimer in his years of offensive coordinator experience, and possibly haven’t seen from Richt since the last time he had a first time ever starting QB in Jacksonville. In his first start since Nick Chubb’s season-ending knee injury, Michel ran 26 times for 87 yards against Missouri. Main came in first with a time of 56.90 while Blyzinskyj followed close behind (57.15).
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The top spot in the Southeastern Conference’s Eastern Division.
Florida enters the game with a 6-1 (4-1 SEC) record, one game ahead of Georgia (5-2, 3-2).
“I think we have regained some confidence on the defensive side, and we’ll make some changes on how we operate offensively”, said Freeze, “I think it has been the missing confidence more than anything, and hopefully we’ve regained some of that”. The unit has been better at protecting quarterbacks than pushing defenders around, and the results show. Barber, a sophomore, is fourth in the league with 770 yards rushing and third with 12 rushing touchdowns.
While a few coaches stick by their established systems and plug players into them, McElwain doesn’t work that way.
– LSU (7-0, 4-0): Heisman Trophy hopeful Leonard Fournette and the Tigers have the week off before beginning a closing stretch against Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas A&M.
Hall officially visited Florida the weekend of the Tennessee game, though his family did not come on the trip. Florida averaged a pathetic 1.8 yards per carry against LSU. The Gators weren’t a whole lot better running the ball against Kentucky (120 yards), Tennessee (109), Mississippi (84) or Missouri (129).
The Georgia-Florida game has showcased intriguing quarterback matchups through the years – Eric Zeier and Danny Wuerrfel in the early 1990s, Greene and Rex Grossman in the early 2000s and Stafford and Tim Tebow in the late 2000s.
According to oddsmakers at BetDSI, Florida is now the slight favorite in this neutral-site game, as the Gators are getting odds of -2 points against Georgia.
The Bulldog running game needs to find a way to get productive in this one.
Each year that cocktail party gets bigger, the hype gets more overblown and the victor is more apt to celebrate in such high fashion, it puts large scale cotillions to shame. “It was just a tremendous feeling leading up to it. But we don’t want to fall in that trap (saying), ‘Oh, we’ve got things in our hands, we just have to go out and beat them.’ No, we have to prepare the same way”. “I can’t wait. I have a great big chip on my shoulder and I’m just ready for Saturday”.
“I’m one of those guys who truly thinks you’ve got to embrace the moment”, McElwain said. “It comes down on me”. When that daunting figure was attached to McElwain’s Colorado State extension in August of 2014, he joked, “The way I look at that, maybe the only chance we have is maybe Bill Gates hiring me”.
Playing Georgia in Jacksonville might be just what Taylor needs for another big-time performance.
“KT is going to try to do the same thing that he did previous year”, guard Antonio Riles said.
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As often is the case with college football rivalry games, anything can happen on Saturday afternoon between Georgia and Florida. “It’s exciting to watch that boy run”.
