THE WEEK ONE SEC RANKING LIST
Without further ado (and without focus on the SEC’s 1-3 record against Power-5 teams this week) here we goooo…….
- Vanderbilt (2-0): BECAUSE THEY ARE 2-0 BABY! AND THE RECORD MATTERS!!
- Tennessee (1-0): BECAUSE THEY WERE THE ONLY SEC TEAM TO BEAT A POWER-5 TEAM EVEN THOUGH A LOT OF NON POWER-5 TEAMS AND MAYBE A COUPLE OF FCS TEAMS WOULD HAVE BEATEN THAT POWER-5 TEAM!! Oh, and Joe Milton’s 21-30, 201 yard, 2 TD effort (where he shone out at times), was excellent.
- Kentucky (1-0): Beat a team that’s expected to be a title contender in the MAC. Look, it was hardly a perfect performance on the offense, especially in the first half from Golden Boy Devin Leary. But shout-out to the D, who had eight TFLs, 2 sacks and 2 force fumbles. Oh, and a scoop and score.
- Alabama (1-0): Jalen Milroe got some tongues wagging after being responsible for FIVE touchdowns (3 pass, 2 run). Now, can it happen against better teams?
- Auburn (1-0): Because they beat a FBS team (as crap as they are!). Er, and they didn’t look utterly useless in the process. Payton Thorne had 141 yards and a touchdown and back-up Robbie Ashford used his legs by rushing for 3 more.
- Texas A&M (1-0): Because they beat a FBS team (as crap as they are!). And they did it 52-10, and Conor Weigman made people happy, throwing for 236 yards and 5 TDs. Oh, and Evan Stewart got his Bednarik Award campaign off to a fine start with a 115 yards, 2 TD show.
- Georgia (1-0): The fanbase didn’t like the offensive performance, but I have a feelings the Bulldogs won’t pull anything out of the hat until their first SEC game. Why? They don’t need to. A UGA friend’s review was this: “It wasn’t a great performance. Beck has an arm, but his accuracy was subpar. Our defense was strong but loosened up too many times”. She added: “I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s another battle for starting QB”.
- Arkansas (1-0): Did what it needed to and smashed Western Carolina, a school in the beautiful Appalachians with a female:male split of 58:42. So now you know.
- Florida (0-1): Florida gets more credence here for going into Utah and battling it out. Sure, they should lost by far more than 11 points (Utah dropped two easy would-be TDs), and they lost to a pair of back-ups, but they didn’t. We worry more about the offense. Graham Mertz was 31-44 for 333 yards, 1 TD and 1 INT, but my Lord it was ugly sometimes.
- Ole Miss (1-0): By beating the hell out of Mercer, all Lane Kiffin has done is throw the Jaxson Dart v Spencer Sanders QB battle into the mire for another week. Will Howard ain’t gonna be it, folks.
- Mississippi State (1-0): Good to see the Zach Arnett era get off to a 1-0 start. Albeit against a school that most have never heard of.
- South Carolina (0-1): The first half was good for South Carolina….and then they fell apart. Spencer Rattler threw for 0 touchdowns and was interception-free, but led 2 drives in the first half, but things utterly deteriorated in the second half. Rattler was sacked for NINE times total, indicating to us that nothing has improved on the offensive line.
- LSU (0-1): The Tigers would have been far up the list had they lost this heavyweight match-up by 3-5 points, but they were HAMMERED. The defense was straight-up lousy, with missed tackle after missed tackle. After this awful performance, we could easily see LSU struggle in the SEC West this year, which would put Brian Kelly’s ass on the Jambalaya broil, even this early.
- Missouri (1-0): The Tigers beat a middle FCS team by 25 points in a game where they struggled for long parts of it. Luther Burden’s a stud, but that’s about the nicest thing we can say about this performance.