Florida has Tennessee’s number to get a decade-plus, but the No. 9 Gators will be with their starting quarterback if they host the Vols on Saturday.
Tennessee vs. Florida was among the SEC’s greatest rivalries but these days are pretty much long gone today since the Vols program has fallen on such hard times in the last several years and they have been dominated inside this series for a while. Florida has just one loss in the past 14 meetings, coming in Knoxville, 38-28, once the Gators were ranked 19th and Tennessee 14th in 2016.
Last year, Florida gathered into a 47-21 road win when both were unranked (UF hasn’t dropped in eight meeting when it is ranked and UT is not ). Feleipe Franks threw three touchdown passes, all to different recipients, and ran for a score. It switched with all four of these to 24 Gators points. The 47 points were Florida’s most ever at Neyland Stadium. UT permitted a security and cost itself by glancing a ball out of their end zone for a touchback a touchdown. Jarrett Guarantano went of 18 for 164 yards with 2 interceptions and a fumble.
No trainer is about a milder seat at the SEC right now than Tennessee’s Jeremy Pruitt. The Vols were embarrassed in their first two games at home, losing 38-30 to 29-26 in double overtime and Georgia State to BYU. It was Tennessee’s first 0-2 start since 1988.
Pruitt’s group got its first win over FCS small brother Chattanooga, 45-0. Guarantano tried only eight passes and completed seven to 142 yards and a career-high three touchdowns (all from the first half). Jauan Jennings caught a TD pass and is the Vol since Josh Malone at 2016 with a TD catch in each of the 3 games. Three Vols made their first career starts: Darnell Wright (true freshman) at right guard, K’Rojhn Calbert (redshirt sophomore) at right tackle and Kenneth George Jr. (redshirt junior) at cornerback. It was UT straight non-conference triumph within an in-state opponent.
When the Vols get punked here, then anticipate more and more chit chat about the school chasing Ohio State along with former Gators head coach Urban Meyer, now doing the work for Fox TV. Meyer recently said he had been”shocked” at the condition of the Tennessee application but that it’s a”Top 10″ project in the nation.
Though this is Tennessee’s first true road game of the year, UF won 29-21 in Kentucky to get revenge for last season’s home upset reduction also had. The Gators trailed for most of the match, but went on a run late to come back and win. Quarterback Kyle Trask directed UF .
Trask was enjoying since Franks suffered a ankle injury which has ended his year. When Franks was halted at the Kentucky 38 for no gain on fourth-and-1 he was carted off in the fourth quarter. Franks has been 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 with Kentucky without receiver Kadarius Toney, who won’t move this week, possibly, and top cornerback C.J. Henderson. He would return through the Vols.
Coach Dan Mullen says he plans to play both Trask and redshirt freshman Emory Jones heading. Jones considered the team’s quarterback of the future and is a dual-threat quarterback while Franks is much more of a pocket passer. Mullen intended to play Jones some against UK too but changed his mind.
“Kyle was kind of sexy,” Mullen stated during his postgame press conference. “So, we sort of stuck with that. I had a couple of stuff for Emory in, but we just kind of stuck with Kyle because he had been rolling.”
Florida has won seven games. Additionally, it has scored at least 24 points in all those, the longest such streak as a 24-game stretch which started with a 28-24 loss to LSU on Oct. 6, 2007, and has been snapped with a 23-13 win over Tennessee on Sept. 19, 2009. UF is 4-0 under Mullen in games.
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