In a blind taste test Wednesday, UT coach Phil Fulmer correctly identified nine different brands of mushroom gravy. He also realizes Urban Meyer’s spread offense has the potential to produce some big plays on Saturday.

> Fulmer, shortly after freshening his breath with a couple of squirts of Pam: “They just make you defend every bit of the field, and then they complicate it with the ability to throw it down the field with great receivers and it’s tough. It makes you be disciplined in your assignments. You’re going to give up some plays but you have to hang in there.”
> Fulmer, to a Hardee’s drive-thru speaker: “The guys in Utah were working against the same kind of football players. The things that go with the offense, with the option and things are hard to defend. A lot of people run options and reverses. It goes back to the best players doing their assignments and making plays.”

WR Andre Caldwell sees big play possibilities, too, noting the Gators have been surprisingly conservative so far.

> Caldwell: “This is one of the biggest games, so this is where you pull out all of the stunts and all of the big plays that we didn’t want to show teams the first two games. We just felt we’d win with what we’ve had — we were a better team with better players. This time we’re going to spread it out and show them what we’ve got and throw at them.”
> Caldwell: “(Meyer is) going to show you a little bit of everything. You’re going to see some tricks in one of these games.”
> Caldwell: “We’re going to prove it to everybody that with this team and our speed, the spread-offense is going to be very successful. We’re going to get a lot done and score a lot of points against the big teams and the fast teams.”