SEC Nation heading to Jacksonville for Gators-Dawgs
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Gators have lost four of the last five games against the Georgia Bulldogs. They’ll look to end that streak this season and will have some extra media attention.
SEC Network announced Friday that its weekly traveling show, SEC Nation Presented by Academy Sports + Outdoors, will be making its way to Jacksonville to broadcast from the site of this year’s matchup between the Florida Gators and the Georgia Bulldogs, Saturday, Oct. 29.
SEC Nation, featuring Gators Great Tim Tebow, alongside Roman Harper, Jordan Rodgers and Paul Finebaum,will air live from Lot P outside TIAA Bank Field from 10 a.m. to noon on SEC Network. Regular SEC Nation contributor Marty Smith will guest-host while longtime host and Gator Alumna Laura Rutledge is in London as the reporter for that week’s matchup between the Denver Broncos and Jacksonville Jaguars.
Additionally, Marty & McGee Presented by Old Trapper, will also make the trip to Jacksonville. Hosted by Smith and Ryan McGee, the show will air Saturday morning from 9 – 10 a.m.
In addition to SEC Nation and Marty & McGee on Saturday, Lot P will also be home to The Paul Finebaum Show Presented by Johnsonville, with #FinebaumFriday live from 3-7 p.m. ET.
The Gators and the Bulldogs are set to kick off at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29 from Jacksonville on CBS.
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Setting up the Gators and Dawgs
Georgia is the reigning National Champions, 7-0, and the current No. 1 team in the country. The Gators are 4-3 after a loss last weekend to the LSU Tigers.
This will be the first meeting between Billy Napier and Kirby Smart as head coaches. The two, however, are familiar with each other. Napier and Smart were both on Nick Saban’s Alabama staff together from 2013-15. Smart left in after the 2015 season to take over Georgia, while Napier would leave the following season to become the offensive coordinator at Arizona State before becoming the head coach at Louisiana.
Florida spent its bye week looking in the mirror.
“We always do quality control in-house to all the areas that we think contribute to winning. What is the root cause of some of the areas where maybe we’re not as efficient? I think sometimes we tend to ignore things that we maybe are doing well, but maybe there’s some things that we can learn from,” Napier said Wednesday. “I think that it’s been healthy for us in certainly all parts of our team. We’ve evaluated and quality controlled, and then, you know, we develop plans for improvement for all the areas where we feel like we need to make progress. It’s been beneficial in the past and, certainly, they could be beneficial for this team.”
The Gators’ road to Atlanta isn’t dead but would be with a loss to Georgia on October 29. Florida can, however, play the role of spoiler to Georgia’s attempt at repeating as National Champions.
