Gators juice up another Georgia football team
Before last year’s shellacking from the Georgia football team, Florida juiced up the Dawgs with some comments about Jake Fromm’s throwing ability. Another year, another Gator.
The Florida – Georgia football game is another in a long line of SEC football rivalries. No one on either side of the old Gator Bowl needs anything extra to get them juiced up. Still, once again the Gators put a little extra in the Bulldog’s tank.
Last year the topic was freshman quarterback sensation Jake Fromm and his throwing habits.
Chauncey Gardner said last year to 247Sports. “He’s throwing simple passes — I get it. Anybody can throw a slant — I get it.”
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They got it
We’ll never know how the remark affected Fromm, he only had to throw the ball seven times. The rest of the Georgia football team’s offense appeared to be seriously affected, though, as the Dawgs ran the ball 35 times for 292 yards. The final rushing nail in the Gators coffin was hammered by Evander Holyfied with a 39 yard touchdown burst.
This year the Gators decided to use Holyfield to give Georgia football a little extra ethanol.
They got this
Asked about Holyfield’s physical running style, Florida linebacker Rayshad Jackson said to Edgar Thompson of the Orland Sentinel, “We’re all linebackers. We’re all capable of trucking him back, so we got this.”
Before the day was over Jackson got this not too subtle dig in as well. “It’ll be a fistfight the whole time.”
Elijah Holyfied is of course the son of one of the greatest firefighters of the Twentieth Century, Evander Holyfied.
Rivalry a la mode
This rivalry needs nothing extra to make it special. The two ancient rivals trade insults not just once a year, but 365 days a year, and they’ve been doing it for over a hundred years.
Other rivalries are renewed annually, this one just rolls over like Sonny and Cher singing I Got You Babe every morning of the year. Forever.
Georgia football head coach Kirby Smart has both played and coached in the game. “The pageantry is different than other games because nobody’s ever at home. They’re always in a joint place, at a neutral site, and it’s a great venue to have a game.”
A big game is even bigger
“We’re all capable of trucking him.”
This year the game takes on national significance with both teams entering the game ranked in the top ten, Georgia at number seven and Florida at number nine.
Back to the younger Holyfield, “A lot of us have played in big games before, and we’ll stay in that same mindset, it’s just another game that we have to win,” Holyfield said. “I embrace it, I like playing big games, I think it brings the best out of people.”
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No extra juice needed, but always welcome. But if the Dawgs do need it, psst. Todd Granthem coaches the Gator defense.