One is probable.

Two is coincidence.

Three is a pattern.

With a new season of Florida Gators football on the horizon, a group of Bama Boys is hoping to create a pattern in Gainesville. They’re just missing one piece—Mack Wilson.

Lyndell, as his Christian name reads, is the No. 1 outside linebacker in the country and a native of Montgomery, Alabama.

In his own backyard is safety Jeawon Taylor and not far across the state is running back Lamical Perine, both of whom are committed to Florida already.

“Lamical Perine and Jeawon Taylor they tell me like ‘we need you’,” says Wilson.

“It’ll be a good chance for me coming in and playing and I don’t mind playing with those guys, you know it’ll be a fun ride…“They be dead serious. Sometimes they laugh about it and sometimes I know they for real.”

Those three could really get a chance to see what a Bama coupe in Gainesville would be like when they take their official visit together at the end of January. That decision at least was an easy one for Mack and could make a future signing day decision even easier.

“We know each other, we comfortable around each other and that’s somewhere we talk about going and those guys have already committed so they trying to get me on board. Just going to enjoy the visit and see how it goes.”

This won’t be the first visit Wilson has taken to the Swamp. He came back in August of 2015 and felt a connection pretty quickly.

“When school started after I had took my visit there, it felt like home to me,” he explains.

“And the coaches, they have great coaching staff and great players and I feel like they had a good graduation rate and I feel like I could get my degree within the three years I’m there.”

His top three right now, in order as per Wilson, is Florida, Alabama and Georgia. The Gators and Tide are pretty neck and neck as he sees it, with Georgia getting a shot at recruitment once Kirby Smart can fully entrench himself in Athens. But that means Smart has to put together a pitch quickly and Saban will be replacing Smart with a new defensive coordinator.

The key to getting Wilson to become a Florida Gator though is continuity and opportunity, and that’s something he sees in Gainesville both with faces from home and faces to make it feel like home.

“If I choose to go to Florida at least I know they have the same coaches there and also with that new coaching staff they won a lot of games this year and they went to the SEC Championship and that plays key in my recruitment. With them signing one linebacker in the last 3 years, that really gave Florida a huge boost… I just feel like with my athletic ability I can play any three linebacker positions and just do what I do best.”

When it comes down to it, that’s what matters most for Mack Wilson. Can he create a home and his own name with the Florida Gators? Can he become a part of a Bama takeover in Gainesville? Perine and Taylor say yes; and Wilson is starting to agree because two words said more than an entire visit or stage of recruitment could.

“If signing day was today, would you be a Florida Gator?”

His reply—“Yes mam.”