Kentucky: The third best team in the SEC? (Week 4 rankings)
A third of the college football season has gone (sniff!), and Alabama is looking absolutely unstoppable. On the other end, Tennessee and Arkansas are competing for the worst teams in the league, although at the most, Tennessee’s looking pretty good for that.
Anyway, here’s our thoughts:
- Alabama (4-0): Unless they screw up mightly, this Alabama team is unstoppable. They are so talented, so well-coached, and so frightening. Their first game against anyone remotely good was close until it….wasn’t. Oh, and Tua should be getting his New York hotel tickets as soon as possible.
- Georgia (4-0): It wasn’t pretty against Missouri in the least, but the Bulldogs came off victorious. Kirby Smart’s got to make sure this team keeps its focus, or things might get a little worrying for this young Georgia team.
- Kentucky (4-0): A huge win against Mississippi State showed that Mark Stoops’ team is for real. Benny Snell is one of the best running backs in the SEC (even Bammerers might admit that), and Kentucky’s defense is awesome. Suffocating Nick Fitzgerald and MSU’s running game wasn’t difficult, but they managed it with ease. This is a team that no-one in the East should sleep on.
- LSU (4-0): The Tigers sleepwalked through their victory against Louisiana Tech, but this is still a very solid team.
- Texas A&M (2-2): Kellen Mond is an awesome QB, and Jimbo Fisher’s got this team rocking at the moment. No-one thought they would win at Alabama, but by God, they fought. Right now, we’d make them favorites against LSU and Auburn.
- Auburn (3-1): We don’t understand the offense. We really don’t. If you do, please let us know.
- Florida (3-1): The Gators rolled into a hyped Neyland Stadium, and took the wind out of Rocky Top’s sails almost immediately and then kept chomping. This will be an awkward team to play against come the latter part of the season.
- Mississippi State (3-1): Get beaten up by Kentucky won’t be the worst thing in the world if Joe Moorhead can use it to kick his team’s butt into shape. But right now, this team that was meant to survive a brawl was outplayed all over the park, and there are more questions than answers.
- Missouri (3-1): Missouri’s defense played out of its mind, while Missouri’s offense couldn’t get it done. Drew Lock is 2-19 against teams with winning records , and was limited by a great Georgian defensive philosophy of COVER EMMANUEL HALL. The bad news for the Tigers is is that they play Alabama pretty soon. The good news is is that this Missouri team isn’t that bad. Honestly.
- South Carolina (2-1): The Gamecocks aren’t the most exciting team to play in the SEC, and probably won’t be the most effective. They are…..OK.
- Ole Miss (3-1): We called the Rebels one of the most dangerous teams in the SEC because they had nothing to play for, but right now, they might want to just play with some sense of cohesion. Before they poured it on against Kent State, there was none.
- Vanderbilt (2-2): While the loss at Notre Dame could quite easily have been a ‘W’, the Commodores turned up (or really didn’t) and laid a turd in a winnable game against South Carolina.
- Arkansas (1-3): This team didn’t put in a terrible performance at Jordan-Hare, and still lost by over 20 points. Still, they aren’t the worst team in the SEC because….Tennessee
- Tennessee (2-2): A hyped stadium. A glowing memory of a National Championship-winning season. All falls apart against your biggest rival. Welcome to Tennessee football, people.
WHO IMPRESSED THE MOST
Kentucky. The Wildcats will take the $100,000 fine for students rushing the field, and stick in your butt. Benny Snell ran for four touchdowns, the defense played elite against Nick Fitzgerald and an offense that was meant to be pretty good, and the ‘Cats played like heroes. After being the running joke of the SEC East in terms of their sheer knack of lacking consistency, Mark Stoops might be showing the joke is on the press, folks.
WHO DIDN’T IMPRESS
LSU and Auburn: LSU for sleepwalking against a team that mightily inferior, and Auburn was simply terrible against one of the worst teams in the SEC. With both of them facing Georgia and Alabama in the next 8 games, things do not bode well.