Saturday: UT-Martin @ No. 11 Florida

Kickoff: 7:30 p.m.; Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Gainesville.

TV/radio: ESPNU; WINZ-AM 940.

Favorite:

Records: Florida 1-0 (0-0 SEC); UT-Martin 1-0 (0-0 Ohio Valley).

Series: First meeting. learned that on our good teams, in games like this, especially early in the season, if you play well, you stay in the game, you continue to fight. That’s easy to benefit from.”

Florida opened with a sloppy win against the rival Hurricanes in Orlando two weeks ago. The Gators averaged 1.8 yards a carry and had four turnovers, 100 yards in penalties and nearly two dozen missed tackles in a 24-20 victory. They overcame those issues thanks mostly to 10 sacks, four fourth-down conversions — including an early fake punt — and two pass plays totaling 131 yards.

Still, Mullen hopes to see better execution Saturday.

“If you look at certain things in Game 1, we did play to our standard,” Mullen said. “And other things, we didn’t play to our standard . ... Was it as clean as we want it to be? No. Did we make some critical errors with penalties, turnovers, red-zone scoring, missed tackles? Some of that wasn’t to our standard, so are we cleaning those things up? That’s been the biggest focus to me.”

The Gators took several days off during their bye week and spent time waiting and worrying about Hurricane Dorian, which destroyed parts of the Bahamas and then crawled up Florida’s East Coast.

“You can’t take anyone lightly,” Florida receiver Josh Hammond said. “Bunch of teams got upset in Week 1. Definitely take the approach that every team is going to come in and try to win the football game. No one plans to lose. We still game plan as if it is the No. 1 team in the country.”