Will Stein's Kentucky football team hosts Jon Sumrall's Florida Gators team under the lights at Kroger Field tomorrow at 6:15 P.M. ET. Florida has came back down to earth after a strong September and Kentucky is looking to bounce back after suffering their second loss of the season. We preview the Gators offense and defense, as well as laid out the path to victory for the Wildcats. Now, I will give my final thoughts on the matchup and a prediction for the game.

Coach Stein said that last week was only the second time in his coaching career that his offense failed to score a touchdown. This team and the offense specifically will be looking to make a statement tomorrow night. They will get a perfect opportunity against a Brad White defense that has struggled all season for the Gators. As we know from watching years of Brad White's scheme in Lexington, they love to play soft zone coverage and allow easy completions to offenses in hopes of executing a bend-don't-break style of defense.

The big advantage is this Kentucky offense is built off of efficiency and getting Kenny Minchey easy completions in quick game. This creates an advantageous scheme matchup for Will Stein and offensive coordinator Joe Sloan. If the Wildcats can eliminate the self-inflicted mistakes from last week in Knoxville, you have to like their chances to put together long scoring drives. The difference in this game being close and the Cats running away with it is if the offense can start to find the explosive plays.

One area of this matchup we have not talked about is the weather aspect of this football game on Saturday. The past few days in Lexington have turned extremely cold, and temperatures for kickoff at looking at 40 degrees or below. Combine that with the winds, it will be freezing at Kroger Field and will only get colder as the game goes on. You have to wonder how this Florida team will respond in these conditions especially if they don't start fast in this one.

This Florida team is reeling, they have lost four of their last five games. The drop-off has been eye-opening for the Gators because they looked like one of the best teams in the country through the first month of the season. Defenses have figured out how to bottle up their run game and the offense has started to suffer because of it. The Gators offense led them to their hot start to the Jon Sumrall era and covered up the rough play on the defensive side of the football.

Kentucky has to stop this rushing attack and get Florida into a dropback heavy game. The Gators are going back to Aaron Philo after starting Tramell Jones last week. The old saying goes: if you have two quarterbacks, you have none. I think the Wildcats will be prepared to potentially see both guys this week as the Gators will try everything they can to generate some offense.

Florida has to answer questions offensively, their offensive line is one of the worst in the conference and the quarterback situation is not ideal. Brad White has not figured out how to fix the Gators defensive issues in his first year away from Lexington. I think Kentucky capitalizes on that and has one of their best offensive performances of the season following last week where they failed to reach the end zone. Kentucky has their backs against the wall, they will make the College Football Playoff if they win the last three games and I believe the offense makes a statement in the cold at Kroger Field.