Orange and Blue Hue » Gators vs. Gamecocks Gameday Open Thread

Ouchie! Better look at that handicap Four more games. Four more wins, and Florida finds itself in Miami playing for a crystal football. It’s the last stage of the journey these Gators started in September. And winning this game is obviously of critical importance if success is to be achieved. This is an SEC contest, but in reality its conference implications are nil. This is a spoiler game for the ‘Cocks, and a national title elimination game for Florida.

Most feel the Gators should pull away in this game, and hopefully they will. Our team is facing a brilliant offensive mind and a defense which is 100% improved from 2007. And Spurrier will have the best two quarterbacks of his tenure at USCe alternating in and out of the game, much like we saw in the Swamp in 1997 when FSU came to play, ranked #1 in the nation. Remember how that one turned out?

Citadel is ‘in the bag’. This game is as far from the bag as you can get. This is a game the Gators can and will lose if they don’t demonstrate the gameday intensity they’ve been using to smash opponents for the last seven weeks. South Carolina’s three losses were by a touchdown or less. Would you feel less confident if Spurrier came into the Swamp 8-2 or 9-1 instead of 7-3? Well, the ‘Cocks are three or four plays away from being perfect in the W-L column.

The Gators are 60 minutes away from concluding the SEC season with an Eastern division championship, a 7-1 conference record, and another week in the BCS title conversation. Play like champions today, boys.

Feel free to share your comments in the O&B Hue Gameday Open Thread, below.

6 Comments so far

I think the Gators can and will win big, but I don’t see them jumping down the ‘Cocks throats after making a big special teams play early. Or, at least USC better hope there isn’t a big special teams play early, because if it happens USC’s getting buried early with the likes of Vanderbilt and Kentucky…

nice, big win for florida. anyone hear spurrier’s comments after the game to urban: “go win 4 more…”

will do.

Did he really say that??????? WTF is wrong with UF fans? UT gets 300 comments for an open game thread and we get 1? I dont get it

Yeah, we’re not that good for comments during the game. Not sure why. Gator fans don’t seem to visit blogs as much as you’d think they would.

its hard to check the blog when you are getting pneumonia at the game. awesome game and I think citadel is not going to have fun next week.

Pat Dooley (Gainesville Sun) talking to Frank Frangie on Friday “Yeah, I think Florida wins but I don’t think it’ll be a blowout…more like 32 to 24. But I could be wrong… everyone calls in with scores like 50 to 10, and so far they’ve been right!”

Yep, I’ve had this comfortable vibe since Arkansas and it has held through USC…I’ll let you know if it changes.

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