WE HAVE A WINNER
— Florida DB VERNON HARGREAVES III on a recent Twitter back-and-forth among players and fans from LSU, Florida and other schools about which program is the best at producing top-flight defensive backs
COMFORT ZONE
— Vanderbilt C SPENCER PULLEY on low expectations for the Commodores after they went winless in the conference last season
IF YOU CAN’T BEAT ’EM …
“Just about everybody in our league has some type of tempo; even the teams that used to gripe about it are actually doing it now. So it’s something that you’ve got to get used to.”
‘IT JUST HAPPENS’
“I can’t say it’s not frustrating at times. Sometimes you might say something in the heat of the moment that you don’t mean, but at the end of the day, you just want to encourage them because they’re out there practicing in the heat just like you are. They don’t go out there trying to be bad. It just happens sometimes.”
— Florida DE JONATHAN BULLARD on the Gators’ offensive productivity falling short of their defense’s efforts in recent seasons