Author: Alex Haddon

The SEC Football Blog loves everything about SEC football. If it's news - and it's interesting - we'll be publishing it, and remarking on it.

The final week….Is Rivalry Week: Week 13 SEC Predictions

Happy Thanksgiving. Finally, we’ll all be able to see each other again. We’ll crack jokes, maybe laugh a little, and try and tell ourselves that we like sweet potato pie and can definitely have two helping of Momma’s Yams. During those family reunions, cousins of different in-state college dispositions will meet up, drink far too much bourbon, and argue like children. There will be discussions of tree-poisoning, and dog-pissing. But everywhere – from internet to in-your-face- will become a cesspool of bitter collegiate football division. Those arguments will develop into fist-fights, probable divorces and definitely decisions never to go to Uncle Joe’s. Ever. Again. And elsewhere, Texas and Texas A&M – the bastions of bitching – will sit each other

Read more

Dan Mullen fired by Florida

After Saturday’s overtime loss to Missouri, the University of Florida had no choice: Fire Dan Mullen. Two weeks before it had been his defensive coordinator, Todd Grantham, who was booted. Grantham was seen by some as a sacrificial lamb, so that his friend Mullen could keep himself around for another year. But it didn’t happen. Saturday’s awful 24-23 loss in Columbia, in which the Gators had one regular-time touchdown in 360 yards of offense, wad utterly dreadful to watch (Note: Missouri weren’t much better!). But Mullen’s firing is still a weird one. Overall, he was 34-15 –  the third-best in The Swamp behind Steve Spurrier and Urban Meyer. After all, he was one horror-loss against LSU last season from getting

Read more

SEC Week 11: Will there be fireworks in Oxford?

This week features No.11 Texas A&M visiting No.12 Ole Miss, No.1 Georgia going to Tennessee, and No.16 Mississippi State rolling into Auburn. LSU also plays Arkansas, Oh, and struggling Missouri hosts South Carolina, who are full of the joys of the fall after thrashing Florida last week. LSU’s game against Arkansas could also be spicy, although Kentucky’s trip to Vanderbilt assuredly won’t be. Oh, and less said about Alabama’s game against New Mexico State and UF’s game against Samford the better.    No.11 Texas A&M (-2.5 O/U 56 1/2) at Ole Miss:  A few weeks ago, Texas A&M looked utterly inept. They had struggled to beat a poor Colorado team, lost at home to Mississippi State, and the boos were

Read more

Week 10 Predictions: Auburn hosts Texas A&M, Hugh vs Lane

The SEC Football Blog has been in the UK lately, dealing with visa delay problems and an ill mother-in-law, but finally we’ve got a little time to do a piece of writing. We managed to watch the Georgia vs Florida / Michigan vs Michigan State games in the UK, but time differences and other issues have made watching college football at tad difficult.  It’s also been difficult to write a SEC Power Rankings because below Georgia, everyone’s been a much of a muchness until you hit the dreadful trio of South Carolina, then Missouri and finally Vanderbilt.  Needless to say, we’ve been following everything and trying to catch up with some highlights. Sorry to see you go, Coach O.  And

Read more

LSU Part 1: In Defense of Ed Orgeron

If you’re a SEC fan – or even a college football fan – you’re probably aware of the situation at LSU. The Tigers lost at LSU, nearly lost to Mississippi State, should-have-beaten-but-somehow-lost to Auburn, and got absolutely destroyed by Kentucky. If Ed Orgeron had a hot seat after the UCLA game, the Kentucky game made his nonk chauz as hot as the seventh corridor of hell. But should he be fired? Here’s why he SHOULD keep his job, despite LSU’s 3-3 record. Quarterbacks, quarterbacks, quarterbacks. Myles Brennan was meant to be Joe Burrow’s heir, and the poor bastard got injured after only 3 games in 2020, and then got injured for the 2021 season. Max Johnson was never going to start in 2021, let

Read more

Will ESPN change the Georgia vs Arkansas game time? No.

A friend of mine texted me today. He was FUMING. “Can you believe that they’ve put Georgia vs Arkansas at frickin’ 11am?’ We live in the Houston area, so 11am kick-offs aren’t the greatest time for our wake-ups or our livers, but we stride on. So I looked and behold: No.2 Georgia will play No.8 Arkansas under the bright sunlight, instead of what the fans of the SEC probably wanted more – a night game, with Sanford Stadium going off the chain. “They should have waited until after the Texas A&M – Arkansas game to make that call,” he said. Instead, ESPN made the call on September 20th. What was a little galling for Georgia fans – and the rest

Read more
1 … 14 15 16 17 18 … 133