#1 Florida Gators vs Tennessee Volunteers

#1 Florida Gators vs Tennessee Volunteers
Saturday 12:30 PST

Howdy Gators:

Hope everyone enjoyed the final preseason game last weekend and are ready for the regular season to kick off. I don’t know about you all, but I have felt a bit left out over the past couple Saturdays as other teams in the nation engaged in competitive, interesting battles while the Gators laced up against cosmetology and vocational-tech schools. Rather than spend a lot of ink poring over the details of last week’s drubbing of yet another very week opponent, I am going to jump right into this week’s proceedings.
If you are like me, you have been anxiously awaiting this particular game against the Tennessee Volunteers and their very brash (and frankly idiotic), young coach, Lane Kiffin. Certainly I know Urban Meyer and the Gator squad have been chomping at the bit to face their once-vaunted rival from Knoxville. For those of you who did not follow the off-season drama and moronic utterances of Coach Kiffin, suffice to say, he ruffled quite a few feathers in Gainesville. In general, it’s probably a bad idea for a new coach, who was just unceremoniously fired by the Oakland Raiders, to strut into the most powerful conference in college football and throw the gauntlet down before the defending National Champ (i.e. the Gators). And I think Kiffin will see the errors of his ways this weekend when he brings his struggling Vols, fresh off a home loss to the UCLA Bruins, to a very raucous Swamp this Saturday. You can be sure that the Gators will be extremely motivated by the knucklehead comments of Kiffin and eager to embarrass Tennessee on a national stage.
Come on out and watch Florida launch the SEC season with the Seattle Gator Club this weekend. This should be an entertaining one and give us a better sense of how good this Gator team truly is. Oh, and be sure to wear blue, as this is a direct edict from Urban Meyer to the entire Gator nation.

Predictions:

• Tim Tebow will be absolutely amped for this game
• We will hear little of the annoying “Rocky Top” chant this Saturday
• The Gators will cover the 25 point spread (by the end of the first half?)
• Lane Kiffin will no longer be the Vols coach at the end of the year
In brief, “Don’t mess with the bull, young man, you’ll get the horns.” (to quote “The Breakfast Club”)

Go Gators,
Courtney