The Florida Gators travel to take on Vanderbilt next Saturday. The game is set to kick off at noon ET and be televised live on ESPN.

BetOnline.ag released a betting line for the SEC East contest, and the Florida Gators opened as 10 point favorites. However, the line has moved down to Florida being favored by 7 points currently.

The Gators are 5-1 on the season and 3-1 in SEC play. Vanderbilt sits at 3-3 on the year and 0-2 in conference.

***Game Notes***

• Florida’s pass rush has picked up in recent weeks, and the added pressure has the Gators ranked tied for third nationally in total sacks (20.0) and tied for 11th in total tackles for loss (48.0) this season.

• In the last two games, Florida has 11 sacks and 19 TFLs.

• Florida is also one of four FBS teams (East Carolina, Miami, Oklahoma State) featuring three players--Vosean Joseph, Jachai Polite, Jabari Zuniga--with at least 6.5 tackles for loss this season.

• Adding in Chauncey Gardner-Johnson--who entered the year with 6.5 career tackles for loss--Florida has four players with at least six tackles for loss this year. No SEC team has more than two such players.

• UF has five-plus sacks in three games, matching the 1999, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2015, and 2016 Gators for the most such games in a season since the start of 1998.

• Florida’s four games with eight-plus tackles for loss this season are also tied with the 2012 and 2014 Gators for the most such games since the start of 2012.

• Last Saturday, LSU entered the game allowing just 5.20 tackles for loss per game. Florida had seven at halftime, and finished with 11.

• Florida set its season high with six sacks at Mississippi State, which was its first six-sack performance in an SEC game since Sept. 19, 2015 at Kentucky.

• Florida is coming off its first win over a top-5 team since Oct. 3, 2015--when it beat No. 3 Ole Miss, 38-10.

• The Gators have won consecutive games against ranked opponents for the first time since 2012, when it beat No. 23 Tennessee (Sept. 15), No. 4 LSU (Oct. 6), and No. 9 South Carolina (Oct. 6).

• It was the first time since 2008 (won at No. 23 Florida State, beat No. 1 Alabama in SEC Championship Game) the Gators beat ranked teams in consecutive weeks.

• The Gators have not finished in the top 100 in scoring offense since 2014, have not finished higher than 96th in total offense since 2010 (when they were 83rd), and their only passing offense to rank higher than 85th after the 2009 season checked in at 79th (2016).

• Florida appears to have the perfect man for the job of reviving its offense, though. Mississippi State ranked 42nd (420.4 yards per game) among FBS teams in total offense from 2009-17. The nine seasons before Mullen’s arrival, the Bulldogs were 114th (313.3 yards). • Mullen inherited the 114th-ranked total offense (276.0 yards per game) and 106th-ranked rushing offense (101.7) in Starkville, but Mississippi State finished the 2009 season ranked 69th in total offense (367.7) and 9th in rushing offense (224.58)--two huge upticks.