Quote:Florida's defense is designed to play someone like Ole Miss.  A team that spreads it out and throws the ball.  Gators are fast and have great cover corners.

 

Will be interesting to see how they do against LSU's and UGA's power running game.  Both LSU and UGA have a dumpster fire at the QB position so the Gators may be able to sell out against the run.  But the Gators' strength on defense, which is their secondary, will be irrelevant for the most part.  

 

Gators are 24th in the nation in run defense. They are definitely above average. Have they faced someone like Fournette? Obviously not, but I think with UGA/LSU's lack of QB, they can focus on clearly shutting down the run game and despite Fournette having back-to-back-to-back 200+ yard games, he hasn't faced a defensive front like UF. 

 

This game is going to be much better than anyone thought. It's going to come down to how much more can Will Grier develop from now til then, can his receivers continue to play lights out and make great catches (when they previously all sucked) and trying to get the run game going (LSU 14th against the run) as opposed to the one sided LSU rushing attack of Fournette and QB's / WR's that nobody can name without going to espn.com. 

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