Urban Meyer's Florida Gators Prepare for LSU In Death Valley

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Oct. 3, 2009 was a great day to be a Florida Gator.  

• Georgia lost to an underwhelming LSU team.
• FSU lost to a tepid Boston College team, and starts an ACC season 0-2 for the first time in its history prompting calls for Bobby Bowden’s retirement.
• Tennessee was manhandled by Gene Chizik and company. Little Lane Kiffin is still winless in SEC play.     

Let’s talk about all these things…but first the real excitement comes from thinking about Florida’s game with LSU on Saturday night in Death Valley.  

Tim Tebow’s concussion is still newsworthy, but as I predicted, Urban Meyer and company have dispensed with the daily Tebow updates by tightening up the news regarding Tebow’s progress. 

I doubt we’ll hear much more substantive information regarding his playing status until game time.  All because the Gators want to keep LSU guessing, so that they’ll have to prepare for two quarterbacks. 

Probably the best news for Gator fans was the fact that Georgia lost. Or LSU won…depending on if you’re an optimist or pessimist.

Like a dead fish floating ashore in a toxic red tide…LSU enters the Florida game with a bloated ranking…eking out stinky wins against bottom feeders Vanderbilt, Washington, Louisiana-Lafayette and Mississippi State. 

And the stinkiest win of all had to be against Georgia…not that I object.  But it took an excessive celebration penalty against the Dawgs to allow LSU the field position necessary for them score a late TD and to enter the Florida game undefeated with a high ranking.

And make no mistake, even though LSU is vastly overrated… Florida fans will wring every last drop of political capital from their assured victory over LSU …as it will still count as a win against a top 5 team. 

And, even when LSU falls from the top 25 after losing to Florida, Alabama, Auburn and quite possibly to Mississippi and Arkansas, they still were a top 5 team when we stuck a fork into their bloated body.

Maybe the Death Valley at night fairy tale will truly become a story line as the game progresses. But really, will a little bit of darkness help an anemic offense?

Tell me, how does a top 5 team only score six points until the last two minutes and 53 seconds against Georgia’s 85th-ranked defense? 

If this were track, LSU’s last touchdown would have an asterisk next to it as being wind-aided.  But it wasn’t the wind aiding LSU.  It was a questionable penalty.

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