By: Kipp Branch

TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services

When Kirby Smart took the UGA job in December of 2015 the two main things he had to do was change the mental aspect of the Florida series, and make UGA a more physical football team.

Here are a few things you hear from Florida fans these days:

“We gave the game away”

“We had too many turnovers”

“Georgia is killing us on the recruiting trail”

“Mullen is a better game day coach than Kirby”.

And a new one for 2020: “Covid-19 put us at a competitive disadvantage”

You hear Florida players and coaches say this is just another game, and every sports cliché you can come up with and it will start up right after Florida takes care of Missouri on Saturday.

The fact of the matter is this UGA is one win away from a complete brainwashing of the Florida fan base and that will carry over to the football program.

Let me go on record and say Georgia is going to win the Florida game on November 7th, and with that win you will have an entire senior football class at UF go through the program without a win in the Georgia series.

Sunday, November 8, 2020 will be a glorious morning for Georgia football because The Dawgs will control the series, once again both physically and more importantly mentally, which is something UGA hasn’t done since Vince Dooley decided he didn’t want to control Florida any longer when he retired.

Dan Mullen is already hearing it when he travels around to all the Gator Booster events around the State of Florida now. “Coach, when are we going to beat Georgia?” “Coach, we are letting Kirby come into our backyard and take too many kids out of the State of Florida”. The list goes on and on.

Name me a signature Dan Mullen win in his head coaching career? I’m listening Florida fans.

Going into this game Florida fans have got themselves wound up so tight that they are asking “How are we going to screw this one up?” Prior to 1990 this was the life of a Gator fan.

UGA would roll into Jacksonville, take the game, take all the pretty women, and drink the most cocktails, and roll out of town and leave the Florida fans bitter and resentful because they were mentally brainwashed.

Then something magical happened for UF, they hired Steve Spurrier, who became bigger than life for the program. He became their Sigmund Freud.

Spurrier ushered in the Golden Age of Gator football, but that glimmer is gone, and Steve won’t be roaming the sidelines in Jacksonville anymore.

Urban Meyer rode the Spurrier mystique and left that program in shambles.

Dan Mullen has now been hired to reclaim the glory, but one thing stands in his way and that is the Georgia Bulldogs led by Kirby Smart.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that the entire Florida fan base and program are one more loss away in the series from being conditioned from one recruiting to the next that we just can’t beat Georgia.

Physically Georgia is better that Florida currently. Mentally Georgia is light years ahead of Florida currently.

Mark Richt was fired because he was 5-10 against Florida. Will Dan Mullen be the first Florida coach in three decades to eventually get fired because he couldn’t beat UGA enough?

I love the UGA/UF game. I love the game in Jacksonville and hope it stays there forever.

As a UGA fan Kirby Smart has me expecting to beat Florida every year.

Gator fans don’t lose too much sleep worrying about what’s going to go wrong this time.

Dawgs win again 35-20.