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Gators Football Has MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY vs Auburn Tigers! · A Peek Inside Gators Football: A Show About the Florida Gators

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  Speaker 1: Well guys, as you can see, I am still coming
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  Speaker 1: to you from the car, but I wanted to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that we had plenty of time to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the game that's happening this week, Florida Auburn. I am
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  Speaker 1: so excited for this one. I feel like I've been
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  Speaker 1: waiting for it for a really long time. This video
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  Speaker 1: in lineups instantly. All right, so we've talked about this
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  Speaker 1: game all summer long. And I understand that Florida has
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  Speaker 1: bigger games on the schedule than this. There are going
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  Speaker 1: to be games with probably more national attention and games
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  Speaker 1: that probably mean more in the playoff race. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: meaning that like that we could play spoiler for somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: I am not sitting here predicting Florida is making the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs after two games. But I am not sure that
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  Speaker 1: there is a game on Florida's schedule that is going
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  Speaker 1: to tell us more about where this program is right
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  Speaker 1: now than Auburn. Because Florida and Auburn are in almost
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  Speaker 1: exactly the same place. Two proud SEC programs, two fan
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  Speaker 1: bases that expect to compete for championships, two programs trying
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  Speaker 1: to get back to where they believe they belong, two
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  Speaker 1: first-year head coaches trying two teams that are 2-0, and
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  Speaker 1: now in week three, we get the first real measuring
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  Speaker 1: stick for both of them. And this isn't necessarily a
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  Speaker 1: statement game, but I do think it's a bellwether game.
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  Speaker 1: It's a game that can tell us where these programs
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  Speaker 1: are headed. Florida is 2-0 after beating FAU 66-21 and
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  Speaker 1: Campbell 52-3. Auburn is 2-0 after surviving Baylor 17-16 and
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  Speaker 1: then beating Southern Miss 43-8. Both teams have done what
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  Speaker 1: they needed to do. Both have shown some encouraging things.
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  Speaker 1: Both teams haven't really answered their biggest questions yet. I
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  Speaker 1: need to know how does this team look against an
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  Speaker 1: SEC team with SEC athletes in a game where the
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  Speaker 1: talent is pretty close to even. For Florida, add another layer.
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  Speaker 1: This is John Summerall's first SEC game as Florida's head coach.
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  Speaker 1: It's his first road game. It's his first at-night in
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  Speaker 1: Jordan-Hare Stadium. And Florida hasn't played at Auburn since 2011.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, this is an old SEC rivalry that's been
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  Speaker 1: played 84 times, with Auburn holding just a slight edge
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  Speaker 1: in the all-time series. So if you want to know
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  Speaker 1: whether the things we've seen over the first two weeks
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  Speaker 1: are real, I think this is where we start finding out.
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  Speaker 1: What makes this matchup so interesting to me is how
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  Speaker 1: similar these two programs are right now. Florida finished four
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  Speaker 1: and eight last season. They fired Billy Napier during the year.
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  Speaker 1: Auburn finished five and seven and fired Hugh Freeze during
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  Speaker 1: the year. Then on the exact same day last November,
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  Speaker 1: Florida hired John Summerall and Auburn hired Alex Golish. Neither
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  Speaker 1: of these guys were brought in to slowly build back
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  Speaker 1: to being a respectable program. That's not the expectation of Florida.
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  Speaker 1: And that's also not the expectation at Auburn. Both programs
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  Speaker 1: expect to matter in the SEC. Both coaches also walked
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  Speaker 1: into major roster turnover. Florida added 50 newcomers. Auburn brought
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  Speaker 1: in 39 players through the transfer portal alone. So these
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  Speaker 1: really are year one teams. And I think that's where
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  Speaker 1: the similarities end. Because the way Summerall and the way
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  Speaker 1: Golish are trying to get there is very different. Summerall,
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  Speaker 1: to me, is a program builder first. So, yes, he
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  Speaker 1: comes from the defensive side. Yes, he wants a tough
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  Speaker 1: and physical football team. But his identity isn't really tied
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  Speaker 1: to one system. It's tied to toughness and discipline, accountability
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  Speaker 1: and adaptability. And that's really been Summerall's calling card throughout
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  Speaker 1: his head coaching career. Before Florida, he went to four
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  Speaker 1: straight conference championship games at Troy and Tulane, won three
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  Speaker 1: conference titles, and took Tulane to the college football playoff.
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  Speaker 1: Look at what Florida has done offensively. Summerall didn't come
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  Speaker 1: in and force some system on his offensive coordinator because, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is my offense. He hired Buster Faulkner, whose whole
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  Speaker 1: offensive philosophy is built around versatility. Faulkner called it a
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  Speaker 1: pro-style hybrid offense. And the idea is pretty simple. What
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  Speaker 1: do our players do well? And how do we put
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  Speaker 1: them in the best position to win? Through two weeks,
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  Speaker 1: it has been really, really efficient. Aaron Filo hasn't needed
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  Speaker 1: to be Superman. Florida has run the football. They've created
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  Speaker 1: explosive plays. They've finished drives, and they've gotten the ball
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  Speaker 1: into the hands of guys who can actually do something
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  Speaker 1: with it. Jaden Baugh had 160 yards and three touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: against FAU. And against Campbell, Vernell Brown gave Florida one
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  Speaker 1: of the most electric special teams performances we have seen
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  Speaker 1: around here in a long time with two punt returns
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  Speaker 1: for touchdowns. And y'all know that made my special teams
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  Speaker 1: hearts happy. And that special teams piece is really important
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  Speaker 1: because it fits exactly with what Summerall has been preaching.
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  Speaker 1: Florida wants to win the whole game again, not just offense,
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  Speaker 1: not just defense, field position, returns, hidden yardage, situational football.
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  Speaker 1: That builds very Summerall. Now, Golis is different. Alex Golis
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely a program builder too. but he's also an
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  Speaker 1: offensive systems coach. He has a very defined philosophy, and
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  Speaker 1: Auburn knew exactly who it was hiring and what it
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  Speaker 1: was getting. Play fast, create space. Force defenses to communicate quickly,
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  Speaker 1: line up quickly, and defend the entire field. But I
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  Speaker 1: think people hear tempo and assume that means that Golish
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  Speaker 1: wants to throw the football all over the place. It's
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  Speaker 1: not really it. Golish has said over and over again
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  Speaker 1: that everything starts with the ability to run the football.
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  Speaker 1: The tempo is the stressor. The formations are the stressor.
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  Speaker 1: The quarterback run game is a stressor. The spacing is
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  Speaker 1: a stressor. But the run game is the foundation. And
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  Speaker 1: Auburn has one huge advantage when Golish took the job.
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  Speaker 1: He brought Byron Brown with him from USF. Brown already
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  Speaker 1: knows the offense. He already knows the tempo. He already
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  Speaker 1: knows what Golish wants. And he wasn't the only one.
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  Speaker 1: 13 players followed Golish from USF to Auburn. That is
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  Speaker 1: an interesting piece to the puzzle in year one. Florida
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  Speaker 1: is installing a new system. Auburn's installing a new one too,
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  Speaker 1: but offensively, a big part of the operation already speaks
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  Speaker 1: the language. And we've already seen both sides of it.
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  Speaker 1: Against Baylor, Brown threw three interceptions. Auburn never really got
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  Speaker 1: comfortable offensively, but they did find a way to win 17-16.
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  Speaker 1: Then against Southern Miss, it looked a lot more like
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  Speaker 1: what Golish wants this thing to look like. Brown accounted
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  Speaker 1: for 319 yards and three touchdowns, didn't turn the football over,
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  Speaker 1: and Auburn won 43-8. So now Florida is going to
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  Speaker 1: get an Auburn team that is starting to settle in.
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  Speaker 1: And this is exactly why I think this mashup is
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  Speaker 1: such a good test for Florida's defense. After the FAU game,
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  Speaker 1: Summerall was very direct about what he didn't like. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't effort. It wasn't want to. It was awareness and
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  Speaker 1: communication and situational football, getting lined up correctly, understanding down
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  Speaker 1: and distance. Florida was too passive at times. Now, there
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  Speaker 1: were moments when guys were... playing too far off in
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  Speaker 1: short yardage situations. There were moments when they just weren't
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  Speaker 1: processing what FAU was doing quickly enough. They were better
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  Speaker 1: against Campbell, but Campbell can't test you in the way
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  Speaker 1: that Auburn's going to. And this is what makes this
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  Speaker 1: matchup so fascinating to me. Golish's offense is basically designed
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  Speaker 1: to expose the exact things that Florida has said it
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  Speaker 1: needs to clean up. Can you get the call? Can
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  Speaker 1: you get lined up? Can you communicate? Can you handle
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback who is a legitimate runner? And can you
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  Speaker 1: defend the run without over-committing and giving up explosives behind you?
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  Speaker 1: And can you do all of that when Auburn is
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  Speaker 1: trying to snap the football before you ever even get comfortable?
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  Speaker 1: slash Allie Peek. Now, on the other side of the ball,
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  Speaker 1: Auburn's defense is the first real test for Florida's offense.
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  Speaker 1: Florida has scored 118 points through two games. That's great.
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  Speaker 1: But FAU and Campbell are not Auburn. This is Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Fiala's first real start in an SEC environment. Now, what
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  Speaker 1: we find out about the efficiency when the windows get
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  Speaker 1: tighter is going to tell us a lot about how
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  Speaker 1: this season is going to play out. What does third
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  Speaker 1: and seven look like when Jordan Hare is actually loud?
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  Speaker 1: What does protection look like when Auburn can actually win
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  Speaker 1: some of the one-on-one matchups up front? Can Florida run
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  Speaker 1: the football when the defense knows Florida needs to run
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  Speaker 1: the football? Can Filos stay patient if Auburn takes away
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  Speaker 1: the easy throws? And maybe most importantly, What happens when
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  Speaker 1: something goes wrong? Because something is going to go wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Florida has spent two weeks playing from the position of
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  Speaker 1: being in control. There are going to be momentum springs.
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  Speaker 1: There are going to be mistakes. There are going to
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  Speaker 1: be a point where somebody gets punched in the mouth
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  Speaker 1: and then they have to respond. That is when you
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  Speaker 1: learn about a football team. And Auburn needs this test
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  Speaker 1: just as much as Florida does. If you are an
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  Speaker 1: Auburn fan, You want to know whether the goalish offense
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  Speaker 1: works the same when the speed on the other side
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  Speaker 1: looks like SEC speed. You want to know whether Byron
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  Speaker 1: Brown can protect the football against a defense with athletes
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  Speaker 1: at every level. level. You want to know whether an
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  Speaker 1: offensive line that was rebuilt heavily through the transfer portal
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  Speaker 1: can hold up against Florida's front. And you want to
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  Speaker 1: know whether beating Baylor was a sign that this team
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  Speaker 1: knows how to win close football games, or if it
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  Speaker 1: was just a game they escaped. That's why I keep
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  Speaker 1: coming back to the word bellwether. This game doesn't decide
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  Speaker 1: the season. If Florida loses at Auburn, the Summerall era
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  Speaker 1: is not a failure. If Auburn loses to Florida, Alex
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  Speaker 1: Golish is not suddenly the wrong hire. It's week three.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think the winner walks away with something
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  Speaker 1: really valuable. Proof. Proof that the culture is translating. Proof
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  Speaker 1: that the system works against comparable talent. I do think
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  Speaker 1: this is particularly important for Auburn. They have two different
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  Speaker 1: paths here. John Summerall did not take many people with
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  Speaker 1: him from Tulane. The only players he took were specialists,
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  Speaker 1: which I think is the easiest thing to translate from
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  Speaker 1: the group of five into power four. That's not what
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  Speaker 1: Golish did. Golish essentially picked up his offense and moved
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  Speaker 1: it north. Which one of those things was the more
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  Speaker 1: successful path to winning quickly? We're going to find out.
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  Speaker 1: I really think that this is just going to provide
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  Speaker 1: us some proof that the things that these coaches have
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  Speaker 1: spent nine months preaching are actually showing up when the
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  Speaker 1: games get uncomfortable. And for the loser, you're probably going
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  Speaker 1: to learn exactly what still needs fixing. Florida and Auburn
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  Speaker 1: are both trying to climb back into the upper tier
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  Speaker 1: of this conference. Neither fan base wants another three-year rebuild speech.
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  Speaker 1: Neither coach was hired to simply make these programs competitive. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: Florida has to beat teams like Auburn consistently if it
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  Speaker 1: wants to be what Florida believes it should be. And
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  Speaker 1: Auburn has to beat teams like Florida consistently if Goalish
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  Speaker 1: is going to get Auburn back to where that program
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  Speaker 1: feels like it belongs. That is why this feels bigger
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  Speaker 1: than just one conference game. It's Florida's first road test.
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  Speaker 1: It's the first SEC test, the first opponent with enough
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  Speaker 1: talent to punch Florida in the mouth and punish the
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  Speaker 1: mistakes the Gators could get away with in weeks one
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  Speaker 1: and two. It's the first time we really get to
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  Speaker 1: see whether Florida's improved special teams, efficient offense, and still
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  Speaker 1: developing defense can all work together when the margin gets
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  Speaker 1: a lot smaller. And it's the first time we get
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  Speaker 1: to compare John Summerall's Florida directly against another first-year SEC rebuild.
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  Speaker 1: Two programs, two new coaches, two completely different philosophies, and
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  Speaker 1: two 2-0 teams. And one game that might tell us
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  Speaker 1: more about where both of these programs are than anything
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  Speaker 1: we've seen so far this season, Florida Auburn may not
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  Speaker 1: be the biggest game on the schedule. But right now,
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  Speaker 1: it might be the most important measuring stick. Because Saturday
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  Speaker 1: night in Jordan-Hare, we stop asking what Florida could be,
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  Speaker 1: and we start finding out what Florida actually is. All right, guys,
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  Speaker 1: it's early in the game week, but I still want
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  Speaker 1: to know, who do you like? Did you see the
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  Speaker 1: line opened at Florida by two and a half? Do
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  Speaker 1: you feel like that's right? Do you feel like it's
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