Florida has Tennessee’s amount for a decade-plus, but the No. 9 Gators will probably soon be with their starting quarterback if they sponsor the Vols on Saturday.
Tennessee vs. Florida was among the SEC’s best rivalries but those days are pretty much long gone today since the Vols app has fallen on such hard times in the last few years and they’ve been dominated inside this series for some time. Florida has just 1 loss in the previous 14 meetings, coming in 2016 at Knoxville when the Gators were ranked 19th and Tennessee 14th.
Last year, Florida rolled to a 47-21 street win when both were unranked (UF has never lost in eight meeting when it’s ranked and UT is not ). Feleipe Franks threw three touchdown passes, all to different recipients, also ran for a score. Tennessee switched it over 6 days, with four of these leading to 24 Gators points. The 47 points were Florida’s most. UT allowed a security and price itself a touchdown by glancing a ball. Jarrett Guarantano went 7 of 18 for 164 yards with a fumble and 2 interceptions.
No coach is about a hotter seat in the SEC right now than Tennessee’s Jeremy Pruitt. The Vols were flat-out embarrassed in their first two games at home, dropping 38-30 to BYU into 29-26 in double overtime and Georgia State. It was Tennessee’s first start since 1988.
Pruitt’s group got its first win over FCS brother Chattanooga, 45-0. Guarantano attempted just eight passes and finished seven to 142 yards and a career-high three touchdowns (all in the first half). Jauan Jennings caught a TD pass and can be the Vol because Josh Malone in 2016 with a TD catch in each of the first few games. Three Vols created their first career begins: Darnell Wright (true freshman) at right guard, K’Rojhn Calbert (redshirt sophomore) at right tackle and Kenneth George Jr. (redshirt junior) in cornerback. This was UT’s 15th straight forward win over an in-state competition.
When the Vols get punked here, expect more and more chit chat about the school chasing Ohio State along with former Gators head coach Urban Meyer doing work for Fox TV. Meyer recently said he had been”shocked” in the state of the Tennessee plan but it’s a”Top 10″ job in the nation.
Though this is Tennessee’s first true road game of the year, UF won 29-21 at Kentucky to get payback for the home upset loss of last year and had its very first last week. The Gators trailed for the majority of the match, but went on a 19-0 run to return and win. Quarterback Kyle Trask directed UF into 3 touchdown drives.
Trask was playing because Franks suffered. He had been carted off late in the fourth quarter when Franks has been stopped at the Kentucky 38 for no profit on fourth-and-1. Franks was 12-for-17 for 147 yards and a touchdown. Trask, a junior from Texas, was 9-for-13 for 126 yards in his location. UF played Kentucky without receiver Kadarius Toney, that won’t move this week, possibly, and top cornerback C.J. Henderson. He could return throughout the Vols.
Coach Dan Mullen says that he intends to play with Trask and redshirt freshman Emory Jones going forward. While Franks is more of a pocket passer,” Jones believed the team’s quarterback of the future and is a quarterback. Mullen intended to play Jones some against UK but changed his mind.
“Kyle was kind of sexy,” Mullen stated during his postgame press conference. “Therefore, we sort of stuck with it. I had a couple of stuff to get Emory in, but we just sort of stuck with Kyle since he was rolling.”
Florida has won seven games overall. It also has scored 24 points at all those, the longest such streak since a 24-game stretch which began with a 28-24 loss to LSU on Oct. 6, 2007, and was snapped with a 23-13 win over Tennessee on Sept. 19, 2009. UF is 4-0 in games decided by eight points or less beneath Mullen.
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