Buddy Martin hosts Best Friday in Football with Pat Smith of WJOX, Franz Beard and Rob Dotson for a Friday look at Florida-Auburn and the weekend’s biggest SEC football storylines.

They will genuinely, sincerely, ask if your family made the trip down all right. Then they will eat your heart out on the 50-yard line and wash it down with something served in a mason jar, all with a smile you’d swear was sincere — because, in its own strange way, it is. They don’t boo you out of that building. They just quietly consume your soul and hand you a program on the way out, in case you’d like a souvenir of your own demise.

There is this theory that has been circulating for a few months that Jon Sumrall is Florida’s football coach because athletic director Scott Stricklin got the best of the guy he once mentored. It is only a theory but one that has grown legs. It has its start back in 2008 when Scott Stricklin left Kentucky to become the senior associate athletic director at Mississippi State. Coincidentally, MSU needed a new baseball coach and Kentucky head coach John Cohen just happened to be

Buddy Martin takes Florida back into the haunted history, noise and strange football mythology of Jordan-Hare Stadium before the Gators’ first trip to Auburn in 15 years.

Jon Sumrall and the Gators head to hostile territory for a historic trip to Jordan-Hare. By Loren Meadows GatorBaitMedia.com, Football Analyst, Host of The Gator Lowdown with Loren Meadows While two schools could not be more closely linked, Florida and Auburn have only met four times since 2002. The rivalry conjures names like Spurrier, Sanders, Byrum, and most recently Perine for what it’s worth the 2026 edition looks to be set for another classic. Florida will find out what

Updated Sept. 17, 2026 GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida has opened the 2026 season 2-0 and now heads into SEC play at Auburn. GatorBait has refreshed its Florida football roster and schedule information using the live University of Florida roster and the current official schedule as of Thursday, Sept. 17. The roster is now a live-season roster The current Florida roster page is the version we are using as the source of truth. Older spring and preseason roster PDFs can be useful hi