From Disappointment to Death Valley: Florida Gators Moving on to LSU

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4.6 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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After a disappointing loss against USF the Gators are regrouping and setting their sights on Death Valley! Coach Napier emphasizes that the team's foundation remains strong despite Saturday's setback. Join hosts David Waters and Andrew "Sponge" Franklin as they analyze what went wrong and how Florida can bounce back against LSU. Focus on the Gators with Alex Shepherd rounds out the episode with candid insights on Florida's disappointing loss to USF, as fans voiced their frustration while the team struggles to live up to preseason expectations amid coaching controversies. #FloridaGators #GatorsBreakdown #GoGators #CFB #SECFootball #CollegeFootball JOIN Gators Breakdown Plus: https://gatorsbreakdownplus.com Get Florida Gators merch at Fanatics: https://fanatics.93n6tx.net/DVYxja Questions or comments? Send them to gatorsbreakdown@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We got Gators Breakdown here.
0:01.3	We know we're business.
0:04.8	Gators Breakdown.
0:07.0	Because there's never a dull moment in Gator Nation.
0:13.5	The Gators Breakdown podcast is ready to go.
0:17.0	I'm your host, David Waters.
0:18.3	You can find me on social media at Gator Dave underscore SEC. Back here again with Sponge, Andrew Franklin, talking a little bit of Gators. We'll take
0:27.2	a small look back. We'll take a look ahead. We'll talk some other games. On the backside of
0:32.8	that, focus on the Gators with Alex Shepard. We'll round out this episode.
0:44.0	So, yeah, there's a go be, you know, we, kind of the transition episodes, Sponge. We'll take a look back a little bit, but we also got to look forward.
0:47.3	Florida's got another big game on the road, death ballet.
0:50.1	We'll get into all that.
0:51.2	But, you know, it's a days yeah you kind of hurt still kind of
0:57.5	you and will you and will went into it you know you had your like the the sorrow session and you
1:02.9	know the the breakdown of the demise of saturday's debacle i guess is what we'll call it um yeah man
1:10.7	it was it's right for it was, it's right way for it.
1:12.4	It was a, I had a good time up until about seven o'clock Saturday night, you know,
1:20.3	because I got to go down and, you know, go with Gus and some of those 2000 guys that were,
1:26.0	you know, getting honored down there for that 25 year SEC championship team, you know, so we had a great tailgate. We got to hang out and see a lot of the old guys, which was super good. I hadn't seen, you know, guys like Lido and Jabbar and Kelvin Kite and Darryl Lee and, you know, did the gator walk and everything, man. It was just, you know, he was just like, all right, let's get in here and let's get this win and then you know just all of a sudden you're in this game and you're just like what is going on man this is not what we expected this is not what was supposed to be going down and you know you're fighting a claw and you're just like all right let's just get out of here with a win and you know to not able to. And then everything that just we'd been building up talking about this whole summer when I
2:05.0	started doing this with you, you know, the optimism and the, the equity and insurance that we put
2:10.1	in to be like, hey, we're going to be good and we're feeling good.
2:14.1	And we like this and we like that.
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