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There are just over 48 hours until kickoff on Saturday between the third-ranked Florida Gators and the No. 20 Texas A&M Aggies in College Station and with the big game just over the horizon, the sports media has been salivating over this matchup of top-25 Southeastern Conference teams.
While the biggest game in the SEC on Saturday will be No. 14 Tennessee traveling to take on No. 3 Georgia in Athens — USA TODAY Sports’ Game of the Week — the gridiron action taking place in East Texas features their Matchup of the Week between UF’s dynamic duo of Kyles against A&M’s lackluster pass defense.
Florida’s combo of QB Kyle Trask and TE Kyle Pitts vs. Texas A&M’s pass defense. The fourth-ranked Gators have averaged 44 points a game, largely due to the Trask-Pitts connection. Trask has thrown a SEC-leading 10 touchdown passes, six of them to Pitts, the strong, mobile and elusive tight end who leads the Football Subdivision in TD catches. The pair have led Florida to scoring 35-plus points in consecutive SEC games for the first time since 2012. The Aggies (1-1) are 10th in the SEC in pass defense, allowing more than 290 yards through the air. They gave up 435 passing yards in a 52-24 loss last week to No. 2 Alabama and will have to improve in a hurry to slow down the Gators.
Gametime is scheduled for noon EDT on Saturday at Kyle Field in College Station, Tex., and will be broadcast on ESPN.
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