Florida coach Jon Sumrall may have borrowed a page from Kirby Smart’s Georgia playbook - and not just any page, but one of the most famous ones in the Bulldogs’ practice manual.
On The Triple Option podcast, Sumrall laid out his weekly approach and made clear where he thinks the tone gets set.
“The coaches’ time to shine is Sunday through Friday. Saturday’s the players’ day to go play,” Sumrall said in an appearance on The Triple Option podcast.
“(Tuesday) is my game day, not theirs. I told our team after our run-through, ‘Hey, tomorrow’s Bloody Tuesday.
I’m going to know if we’re ready to play this week by how we practice tomorrow.’ ”
The “Bloody Tuesday” label has been part of Georgia’s vocabulary since Smart began using it during the 2021 season. The concept itself isn’t revolutionary - Mondays are for installing, Wednesdays for sharpening - but Smart’s version became a calling card for that 2021 Georgia team, which rode a brutally physical defense to a national championship.
The phrase has stuck around inside the program ever since. Even now, Georgia players still talk about Tuesday as the hardest day of the week.
“Every week, we always have Bloody Tuesday, we always practice hard Wednesday, you know what I’m saying,” Georgia running back Chauncey Bowens said prior to Georgia’s first game this season. “So, I mean, it’s always the same routine, but we’re looking forward to this week as if like every other week.”
Sumrall is in his first season at Florida after arriving from Tulane, and the Gators’ staff has another familiar Georgia link: offensive coordinator Buster Faulkner, who was an analyst on Smart’s staff when Bloody Tuesday became part of the Bulldogs’ identity.
The timing only adds more fuel to the rivalry. Florida is coming off a 52-28 win over No. 9 Ole Miss and is now ranked No. 8 in the country.
Both Georgia and Florida still have major games ahead before their annual meeting at the end of October. Georgia hosts Vanderbilt this week, while Florida heads to No. 25 Missouri.
The teams will meet in Atlanta on Oct. 31. Georgia has won eight of the last nine in the series.
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