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Rivals national recruiting analyst John Garcia Jr. is joined by national analyst Sam Spiegelman, 1stAndTenFlorida.com’s Jason Higdon and CanesCounty.com’s Marcus Benjamin to tackle three topics and determine whether they believe each statement is FACT or FICTION.
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1. Billy Napier will not be the head coach for Florida by the time Tennessee hosts UF on Oct. 12.
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Higdon: FACT. This is about as tricky a question to answer as you can imagine. The program’s current state will be challenging to recover from without a coaching change at the top, and the timing of it all is difficult to predict.
What if Florida drops a road game against a Mississippi State team that just got beat by Toledo, 41-17. Mississippi State also lost to Arizona State and beat Eastern Kentucky in the home opener. The Gators are favored by 5.5 points on the road this week and will walk out of Starkville with the win. However, it might not be enough to change the program’s fate.
I believe change is coming; I am not sure it will be in the next three weeks unless the Gators drop one of the next two games. Change is coming to Gainesville, but the million-dollar question is when, and I can’t answer that right now. For the sake of argument, I will end with fact.
Garcia: FACT. It’s long felt like a matter of when and not if the current regime in Gainesville would be gone, so every loss moving forward becomes the next expectation. From the quarterback…
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Publish date : 2024-09-18 21:12:08
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