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THE LATEST on Billy Napier, Scott Stricklin and meetings | Florida vs Mississippi State Preview

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Gators Breakdown

Sports, Football

4.6642 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Is Billy Napier's time at Florida coming to an end? We discuss Scott Stricklin's recent booster meeting and what it means for the head coach's future. Then, we break down Florida's upcoming matchup against Mississippi State. Mississippi State comes in 4-2 but still searching for their first SEC win. Their offense can explode at any moment with big-play threats, but can they protect their quarterback with a banged-up offensive line and no Fluff Bothwell in the backfield? On defense, the Bulldogs are ball hawks who haven't given up a first-quarter offensive touchdown all year. But they're vulnerable against the run and struggle to generate pressure. Will Florida finally put it all together and capitalize on Saturday? #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

Gators Breakdown

0:03.6

Because there's never a dull moment in Gator Nation

0:07.8

The Gators Breakdown podcast is ready to go.

0:15.0

I'm your host, David Waters.

0:16.2

You can find me on social media at Gator Dave underscore SEC

0:19.3

coming at your Thursday evening episode kind of a

0:22.6

crazy week my my daughter had no school Monday Tuesdays so it threw off some of my you know

0:30.2

stuff during the week did them did the Monday night episode did move the chat for the Gators breakdown

0:36.1

plus to Tuesday.

0:40.5

So Wednesday night, my daughter had a cheer again.

0:41.3

It's usually on Tuesday.

0:43.1

She had to go cheer middle school on Wednesday.

0:46.3

So it kind of threw everything into a wrench this week.

0:56.2

But, well, you guys know I've been out there social media anyways, but we are joined, of course, by if you're watching YouTube, Sponge, Andrew Franklin,

0:57.7

hopping on right here this Thursday.

1:04.0

And Sponge, absolutely lots to get into, of course, set the world on fire Wednesday nights. It did not stop Dave from working the cheer on my way home and get a call and you got to figure some things out.

1:13.4

And look, I was trying to chase anyway some of the news that had come out about the booster meeting with Scott Strickland and all that.

1:20.3

Because the original article came out from Matt Hayes, you know, coming out and sayings, Strickland met with a group of boosters.

1:27.2

And they're basically a strong arm deemed and they're not going to support if something not done with Napier. That was the gist of it. You know, but there was a part in that article that said we reached out the Athletic Director Scott Strickland for no comment. So first of all, that got me wondering too, okay, what is the other side of this?

1:44.8

And then I do get a phone call without really diving too much into it. And I'll put out the

1:48.8

tweet. We'll get into it. There's plenty to get into from that. But Spongejai kind of, in an amusing

2:00.3

kind of way before we came alive here.

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