SEC working to avoid repeat of Florida-LSU scheduling fiasco

And if that’s not enough of a story line on its own, this game – already delayed over a month and moved from Gainesville to Baton Rouge after the October 8 matchup was postponed because of the potential threat of Hurricane Matthew – will play a heavy hand in determining Florida’s fate in the SEC East.

Texas San-Antonio (5-5) at No. 22 Texas A&M, 11 a.m., ESPNU; Louisiana-Lafayette (4-5) at Georgia, 11 a.m., SEC Network; No. 18 Florida at No. 14 LSU, noon, SEC Network; Missouri at Tennessee, 2:30 p.m., CBS; Western Carolina (2-8) at SC, 3 p.m., SEC Network; Austin Peay (0-10) at Kentucky, 3:30 p.m., SEC Network; Tennessee-Chattanooga (8-2) at No. 1 Alabama, 6 p.m., ESPN2; Arkansas at Mississippi State, 6 p.m., ESPNU; Alabama A&M (4-6) at No. 16 Auburn, 6:30 p.m., SEC Network Alternate; Ole Miss at Vanderbilt, 7 p.m., SEC Network.

By the time Tennessee and Missouri begin play Saturday afternoon, the Volunteers will probably have a keen sense for how another SEC game of material importance, being played 565 miles away, might turn out.

-DE Taven Bryan was one of the leaders of an outstanding effort against SC last week. “I really do”, McElwain said of Appleby’s performance in Florida’s 20-7 win over SC last Saturday.

Graduate transfer Austin Appleby again will make the start at quarterback in place of Del Rio. That is when Jalen Tabor and Quincy Wilson make their mark, creating turnovers with interceptions. She is one of the most wonderful, caring people in the world, and yet there going to say everything they can about my mother. This just isn’t an explosive offense by any stretch of the imagination, and it’s tough to see the Gators winning in Baton Rouge this weekend without being able to generate something on offense.

The Gators’ numbers have been incredible, allowing opposing quarterbacks to complete only 43.5 percent of their passes, while intercepting 12 passes and only allowing six touchdowns. The Gators will face him Saturday, but there’s a chance he might not be full speed after tweaking an ankle at Arkansas this past Saturday.

“Their running backs are really good players, hard running”. His counterpart Leonard Fournette added another 98 yards and three touchdowns himself. Crockett is coming off a 150-yard effort against the Commodores.

For Orgeron and the Tigers, though, anything can happen in a rivalry game, especially with a potential birth to the Sugar Bowl on the line. As a whole, they have caught 75 passes for over 850 yards and six scores. Only 58. So although the Tigers have certainly faced tougher passing offenses, there isn’t a huge gulf in level of competition.

The Tiger’s defense did its part in last week’s 38-10 victory over the Razorbacks. “You just keep your head down and you keep playing”.

I expect this to be a hard hitting game where the defenses rule the day so points will be tough to come by so getting almost 2 touchdowns before the game even starts is too good to pass up.

The Gators are 10-4 ATS in their last 14 road games.

The visiting team is 1-4 SU and ATS in its last five games in this matchup. But why are those Tigers on the CBS top-choice 2:30 p.m. game Saturday at Tennessee (7-3, 3-3 SEC)? The home team has covered the point spread in 4 of the last 5 meetings of these two teams.

The time has come for the Gators to put all the doubters aside in 2016.

“Their defense is one of the best in the country”, he said. After Auburn failed to do anything whatsoever offensively in the 2nd half of their game with Georgia, Alabama clinched a spot in Atlanta for the 3rd year in a row. After playing the best team in college football down to the very end, they thought the correct decision was to drop LSU from 13th to 24th in the standings. They will need to prove that this game was a sign of things to come and not just an outlier. Instead, the Gators must now travel to Death Valley for 16th-ranked LSU’s “Senior Day”. Take LSU to cover the -13.5.