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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to A Peak Inside Gator Football. Allie Peek here.
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  Speaker 1: This video is presented by PrizePix. Florida just beat the
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  Speaker 1: number four team in the country by 24 points. They're 4-0.
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  Speaker 1: They're ranked number eight. The national media is finally paying attention.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's talking about Coach Summerall and Jaden Baugh. Everybody's talking
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  Speaker 1: about whether Florida is a college football playoff team. And
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  Speaker 1: now comes the part that worries me. Today I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about what I think is a very dangerous
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  Speaker 1: spot for this Florida football team. This is exactly the
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  Speaker 1: kind of game where you find out whether a team
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  Speaker 1: is mature enough to handle success. Florida goes into Columbia
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  Speaker 1: this Saturday for a 3.30 kickoff on ABC. And I
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  Speaker 1: know what a lot of people are thinking. Florida just
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  Speaker 1: beat Ole Miss 52-28. Missouri just lost. Florida's the number
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  Speaker 1: eight team in the country. So Florida should just go
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  Speaker 1: up there and take care of business. And maybe they
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  Speaker 1: absolutely can. But I don't think that this is a
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  Speaker 1: game where Florida can show up thinking the Ole Miss
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  Speaker 1: win means anything once that ball is kicked off because
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't. Ole Miss is over. That win was huge,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that everybody should have enjoyed it on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night. I celebrated it. I'm sure you did too.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of the best atmospheres we've seen in
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  Speaker 1: the swamp in a long time. But none of those
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  Speaker 1: 52 points carry over to Columbia. And that's where John
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  Speaker 1: Summerall has another really important test, not a football test.
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  Speaker 1: but a mindset test. Can you get a team that
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  Speaker 1: just had everybody telling them how great they are to
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  Speaker 1: go right back to work? That's hard. It really is,
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  Speaker 1: especially with college kids. You beat the number four team
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  Speaker 1: in the country. You jump into the top 10. You
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  Speaker 1: open your phone on Sunday morning and everybody's talking about you.
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  Speaker 1: You've got ESPN talking about you. You've got national shows
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  Speaker 1: talking about you. You've got people suddenly putting Florida in
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  Speaker 1: the playoff conversation. And all that feels really good. And
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  Speaker 1: that is exactly when good teams get themselves in trouble
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  Speaker 1: because Missouri does not care. Missouri is sitting there after
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  Speaker 1: a loss and they're going to go back home. And
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  Speaker 1: Florida is now the team coming in with the big
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  Speaker 1: number next to its name. The dynamic changes. Florida spent
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  Speaker 1: the first month of the season trying to prove something. Now,
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they're the team other people are
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  Speaker 1: trying to knock off. And that is a different beast.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's why this game is so interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Missouri came into the season with expectations. They were ranked
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the year. This was originally announced as a
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  Speaker 1: matchup between ranked teams before last weekend changed things. I
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  Speaker 1: saw Missouri at 25 and I think at least the AP.
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  Speaker 1: So this is not Florida going on the road to
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  Speaker 1: play some completely overmatched team, though. Columbia has been a
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  Speaker 1: difficult place for Florida to play over the years. Florida
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  Speaker 1: and Missouri have played 13 times since Missouri joined the conference,
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  Speaker 1: and Missouri actually leads the all-time series 7-6. The last
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  Speaker 1: time Florida went to Columbia, they lost 33-31. Before that,
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  Speaker 1: in 2021, they lost 24-23. So if you're looking at
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  Speaker 1: this game and thinking, like, oh, it's Missouri, Florida's going
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  Speaker 1: to be fine, I would probably pump the brakes a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Weird things happen in Columbia for the Gators.
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  Speaker 1: They just do. And road SEC games are hard. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care what the rankings say. I don't care what
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  Speaker 1: Vegas says. You go into another SEC stadium, and if
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  Speaker 1: you give that team an inch, you give them any
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  Speaker 1: life at all, suddenly you're in a dogfight. That is
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  Speaker 1: the number one thing Florida can't do. Don't give Missouri life.
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  Speaker 1: Florida has been really good so far at creating momentum.
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  Speaker 1: Special teams creates plays. The running game gets going, the
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  Speaker 1: defense creates a turnover, the crowd gets involved, and suddenly
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  Speaker 1: the whole game swings. Well, on the road, that works
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  Speaker 1: all their support. You give up a big play early.
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  Speaker 1: You have a dumb penalty. You turn the ball over.
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  Speaker 1: You allow Missouri to get a quick touchdown. Now their
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  Speaker 1: crowd is alive. Now their sideline believes. Now Florida's playing uphill.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what you want to avoid. I think the
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  Speaker 1: first quarter is incredibly important in this game. Florida doesn't
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  Speaker 1: need to come out and score 21 points necessarily. I
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  Speaker 1: do think they need to play clean, though. No stupid penalties,
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  Speaker 1: protect the football, tackle well, make Missouri earn every single inch,
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  Speaker 1: and kind of settle into the game. The one thing
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  Speaker 1: Florida absolutely cannot do is play emotionally sloppy after such
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  Speaker 1: an emotional win. And that is usually what happens in
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  Speaker 1: these spots. You're riding so high from the week before
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  Speaker 1: that you do come out a little flat, or you
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  Speaker 1: try to do too much, or you assume the game
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  Speaker 1: is going to come easy. And then suddenly you look
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  Speaker 1: up and it's 14-7 in the second quarter and you're
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  Speaker 1: thinking like, shoot, what is going on? That's the trap.
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  Speaker 1: And I know people hate the phrase trap game because
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  Speaker 1: technically every SEC game is hard. And I do agree
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  Speaker 1: with that line of thinking. But if there was ever
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  Speaker 1: a setup when you worry about the emotional side of it,
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  Speaker 1: I think this is it. Florida just had what might
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  Speaker 1: be its biggest win in years. Then they go on
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  Speaker 1: the road against a team coming off a loss. before
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  Speaker 1: coming home to play South Carolina, and then going to Texas,
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  Speaker 1: it would be incredibly easy to look past Missouri. And
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  Speaker 1: they can't. And I think the way Florida avoids that
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  Speaker 1: is by leaning into what has gotten them here. Run
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  Speaker 1: the football. That should travel. Did to Auburn. Jaden Baugh
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  Speaker 1: has been the most consistent thing Florida has had offensively.
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  Speaker 1: He has gone over 100 yards in every game this season.
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  Speaker 1: He just had 142 in three touchdowns against Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 1: And the week before that, he had 162 at Auburn.
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  Speaker 1: That Auburn game, to me, is important here. It matters.
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  Speaker 1: Florida already showed that this running game, this isn't just
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  Speaker 1: something that works in Gainesville. They went into Jordan Hare
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  Speaker 1: and ran the ball. So if I'm Florida, I don't
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  Speaker 1: go into Missouri trying to prove I can be cute.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if Missouri loads the box. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care if everybody knows what's coming. Run it anyway. Make
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  Speaker 1: them stop it. The fastest way to take the crowd
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  Speaker 1: out of a road game is to control the line
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  Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Pick up first downs. Keep their offense on
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  Speaker 1: the sideline. That's something Florida's done exceptionally well this year.
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  Speaker 1: Drain the energy out of the building. That is exactly
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  Speaker 1: what Florida should want. And Aaron Filo does not need
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  Speaker 1: to be a hero. That's another thing that I would really,
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  Speaker 1: really stress this week. Don't go into Missouri thinking, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're number eight now. Let's throw it all over the place. No.
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  Speaker 1: Play the same football that got you to 4-0. Philo
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  Speaker 1: has been really good because he hasn't tried to make
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  Speaker 1: every play into something spectacular. He's been efficient. He's protected
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  Speaker 1: the football. Against Ole Miss, Florida rushed for 302 yards
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  Speaker 1: and six rushing touchdowns, while Philo completed 16 of 23 passes.
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  Speaker 1: That's a dream setup for a quarterback. You don't need
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  Speaker 1: him to throw for 400 yards. You need him to
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  Speaker 1: move the chains, hit the throws that are there, and
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  Speaker 1: just kind of stay out of trouble. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that is especially important on the road. Turnovers change road
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  Speaker 1: games fast. One bad interception and suddenly you give Missouri
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  Speaker 1: a short field. One fumble and the whole stadium wakes up.
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  Speaker 1: Florida's been really good at making opponents earn things. Keep
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  Speaker 1: doing that. Defensively, I think this is also one of
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  Speaker 1: those games where discipline matters more than anything flashy. Florida's
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  Speaker 1: going to have to tackle. They're going to have to communicate.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to have to be good on third down.
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  Speaker 1: And they cannot extend drives with penalties. Those are the
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  Speaker 1: things that will get you beat in a game like this.
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  Speaker 1: Not necessarily because Missouri is going to line up and
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  Speaker 1: dominate you, but because if you give an SEC offense
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  Speaker 1: extra chances, eventually they're going to make you pay. We
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  Speaker 1: saw Florida have some defensive issues against Auburn. We saw
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  Speaker 1: some missed tackles. We saw some third down problems. Ole
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  Speaker 1: Miss had moments too. So this isn't a defense that
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  Speaker 1: can just assume it'll all, you know, it'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to overwhelm everybody. Florida has made enough plays to cover
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  Speaker 1: up some of their mistakes, but on the road, you
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  Speaker 1: need fewer mistakes. Make Missouri drive the field. Make them
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  Speaker 1: go 10, 11, 12 plays. Don't give up easy explosives.
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  Speaker 1: Don't turn a five-yard play into 40 because somebody missed
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  Speaker 1: a tackle. And special teams, again, could be huge. I
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  Speaker 1: keep saying this, but Jonathan Galante's unit has one of
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  Speaker 1: the biggest differences on this football team. If Florida can
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  Speaker 1: flip the field, get a big return, pin Missouri deep,
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  Speaker 1: all of that matters even more on the road. A
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  Speaker 1: big special teams play can completely shut a crowd up.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really valuable. And Florida's already shown it can
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  Speaker 1: do it in multiple ways. Burnell Brown with the punt
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  Speaker 1: returns against Campbell. Alec Clark flipping field position. London Montgomery
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  Speaker 1: with a long kickoff return against Ole Miss. Those are
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  Speaker 1: plays that change games without your offense or defense really
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  Speaker 1: doing anything. And in a game where you are trying
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  Speaker 1: to avoid letting the other team build momentum, that also
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  Speaker 1: becomes huge. The other thing I want to see is
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  Speaker 1: how Florida responds if things don't go perfectly. Because up
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  Speaker 1: to this point, this team has showed some toughness. Auburn
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  Speaker 1: pushed him. They responded. Ole Miss cut into the lead.
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  Speaker 1: Florida responded. All of that is important. They're good tests
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  Speaker 1: for what's to come down the pipeline. And I think
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  Speaker 1: John Summerall deserves a lot of credit for that. His
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  Speaker 1: team doesn't seem to panic. They just keep playing. That's important.
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  Speaker 1: because if you go to Missouri and they score first, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so what? Now what? If Florida is really the team
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  Speaker 1: we think it's becoming, that can't rattle them. You're the
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  Speaker 1: number eight team in the country because you've played good
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  Speaker 1: football for four weeks. Not because you've never been behind.
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  Speaker 1: Not because you've never made mistakes. Good teams respond. And
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  Speaker 1: I think this is a week where Summerall's messaging becomes
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  Speaker 1: really important because I guarantee you he is telling them
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  Speaker 1: exactly what I'm saying right now. The ranking does not matter.
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  Speaker 1: The Ole Miss game does not matter anymore. The playoff
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  Speaker 1: talk doesn't matter. Your job is Missouri and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where we find out if the culture
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  Speaker 1: change is real. It's easy to be focused when the
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  Speaker 1: number four team in the country is coming to the swamp.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's locked in for that. You don't need to motivate
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  Speaker 1: anybody for Ole Miss. But can you bring the same
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  Speaker 1: intensity the next week on the road against a team
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  Speaker 1: that just lost when everybody's telling you how great you are?
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  Speaker 1: That tells me more. It really does. Because championship level
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  Speaker 1: teams are not defined only by what they do in
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  Speaker 1: giant games. They are defined by whether they avoid the
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  Speaker 1: dumb loss. That's a big part of it. Every season
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  Speaker 1: we see teams put together a huge win and then
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  Speaker 1: come out flat the next week. It happens constantly. And
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  Speaker 1: once it happens, you can't get it back. Nobody cares
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  Speaker 1: in December that you were emotionally drained after beating Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 1: A loss is a loss. Florida has to put itself
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  Speaker 1: in a good position. They have so far this season.
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  Speaker 1: They've got to continue to do that. They're 4-0. They're
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  Speaker 1: number eight. They have the national attention. They have momentum.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly why this game matters so much. Now
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  Speaker 1: you have something to protect. You have to handle the success.
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  Speaker 1: That's the next step. And I think the formula is
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  Speaker 1: actually pretty simple. Run the football. Protect Aaron Filo. protect
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  Speaker 1: the football, tackle, win special teams, don't give Missouri cheap points,
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  Speaker 1: and make them beat you for four quarters. If Florida
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  Speaker 1: does those things, I like where they are. But if
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  Speaker 1: Florida shows up still thinking about Ole Miss, well, that's
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  Speaker 1: when it gets dangerous. And I don't think Coach Summerall
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  Speaker 1: is going to let that happen easily. Everything we've seen
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  Speaker 1: from him so far suggests he understands exactly what this
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  Speaker 1: spot is. The question is whether the players respond. Because
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  Speaker 1: being number eight is great. Being 4-0 is great. Getting
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  Speaker 1: national respect is great. But if Florida wants to be
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  Speaker 1: the team everybody is starting to think it can be,
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  Speaker 1: this is the kind of game you have to handle.
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  Speaker 1: Go on the road, take care of business, get to 5-0,
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  Speaker 1: and move on. No drama, no emotional hangover, no looking ahead,
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  Speaker 1: just playing. And I honestly think that we're about to
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  Speaker 1: learn a lot about this Florida team on Saturday. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: not because Missouri is the best team that they're going
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  Speaker 1: to face all season. They aren't. But because this is
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  Speaker 1: the first time Florida has had to deal with the
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  Speaker 1: weight of expectations. They're no longer sneaking up on anybody.
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  Speaker 1: They have everybody's attention now. And with that comes a
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  Speaker 1: very different challenge. Let me know what you guys think.
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  Speaker 1: Are you worried about this being a trap game for Florida?
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  Speaker 1: And what's the one thing the Gators absolutely have to
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  Speaker 1: do to leave Columbia 5-0? Let me know down in
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