Meyer focused on game-day with inexperienced team

GAINESVILLE - With so much youth on his Gator football team, Urban Meyer is going to great lengths to try and make sure his players are ready for Saturday's season-opener against Western Kentucky.

Florida returns 10 scholarship seniors and 11 juniors on scholarship. No other school in the SEC has fewer than 28 combined juniors and seniors returning. The average number in the SEC is 34.

So Meyer has spent a lot of time the past two weeks trying to simulate game-day situations and giving the players as much of a feel as possible about what to expect.

"We went through our practice schedule and our kids have gone through many more game situations at practice as they had a year ago,'' he said. "You didn’t need to teach Ray McDonald how to handle pre-game situations. We focused on pre-game much more than we ever have.  We went through all
of the little things so that they can focus on going four to six seconds. That is our whole theme this week as you can see throughout the facilities.  Four to six seconds as hard as you can go and if they
can do that then they will be fine.''

Here is a breakdown of positions by the percentage of scholarship players that are underclassmen:

QB- 75.0

TE - 33.3

RB- 83.3

WR- 70.0

OL- 68.7

DL - 78.5

DB - 71.4

LB -100

K -50