Welcome to Hate Week Tuesday, Bulldog fans and gator haters! Even if you don’t bleed red & black, you’re welcome if you’re here just to pile on the Sunshine State Saurians. We don’t discriminate when it comes to mocking the shark desiring, blue polo wearing, non-ironic mullet brandishing, Kerwin Bell spiking, Ron Zooking booger eaters. I’d like to practice kindness, but alas I was a young man when Stephen Orr Spurrier came back to Gainesville and decided his sole ambition was to beat Georgia… a lot. Of that was borne a hatred with the fire of a thousand suns, fueled by the fire of a thousand suns.
For that span, and some of the scoreboard runups, I believed the Head Ball Coach was the devil incarnate. But that time is now long ago, Florida has more 5-loss seasons than not in the last 15 years, and Kirby Smart will now face a 4th different coach on the opposite sideline in Jacksonville. The program is not the same as it was under Spurrier and then Urban Meyer, and the derision has slid towards sympathy. Until Florida brought in the Son of Satan as a special offensive analyst. So will that make me feel Sympathy for the Devil? Ladies & Gentlemen… The Rolling Stones!
Now onto news and notes of the Georgia Bulldog variety:
The folks at SEC Shorts are up to it again. For whatever reason, perhaps some sympathy, they left Florida out of this one. But the dig at Kirby Smart was pretty good.
Coach Smart held his Hate Week Florida preview press conference yesterday. His opening remarks were remarkably pro-neutral site. No mention of losing the chance to host recruits, no mention of one less home game, and no mention of the upcoming Tampa/Atlanta biennium. He of course addressed questions about the new voices calling plays for the Gators, and some just-vague-enough-to-not-be-in-violation comments about the ESPN College GameDay pandering for current 2026 Bulldog commit QB Jared Curtis.
Around the 17:30 mark in the video, Coach Smart is addressing the loss of Colbie Young in relation to big, physical receivers on the outside. I don’t know if my Joe Namath-endorsed hearing aids were functioning, but I swear I heard the words “14 personnel, 13 personnel” coming out of our head coach’s mouth. Be still my beating heart.
One of the oft-overlooked events of the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party is the induction of a couple of players into the Georgia-Florida Hall of Fame. For 2025, there are a couple of Florida players who no one outside of the greater Alachua County area of influence cares about, and there are a couple of Damn Good ‘Dawgs. Sony Michel and Freddie Gilbert are the 2025 Bulldog representatives, and are great additions from each side of the ball.
Looking for news, I stumbled on this particular bit. It isn’t newsworthy, but it does contain just about everything you need to know about traffic, parking, entering the stadium, and all the logistics of a Game Day for those visiting. I hope it reaches the right people.
Looking ahead, there is a little more certainty around UGA’s visit to the Bizarro Bulldogs on November 8th. The gametime is now set for 12 pm ET. The network broadcasting is only narrowed down to ABC or ESPN – that decision will come after this week’s slate of games and the Disney finance team can cipher the optimization of their available slate.
There’s not a ton of news out for a such an important game. Then again, one of the teams fired it’s coach and is reeling towards another bowl ineligible season, and the other is a top 5 national CFP contender. So maybe the sports media world is looking elsewhere. Thanks again to Brian Kelly for taking all the oxygen.
Let us know in the comments what you did to hate a Gator today, and as always…
GO ‘DAWGS!!!
