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Previews for Week 3 of the SEC season
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After Week 3: Ranking the SEC
When the refs steal the a lot of the game’s limelight, you know that the reffing was terrible. And in the Mississippi State vs Memphis Penn State vs Auburn clashes, they were beyond terrible. No, stupid press releases about how these dumbf**ks screwed up the call might make the SEC feel better, but these guys should be suspended. I mean, they are costing coaches their potential livelihoods here! Apart from that – and that’s like saying: “Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?” – here’s our SEC rankings. Georgia (3-0): The Dawgs look unbeatable at the moment. Sure, their secondary gave up 2 or 3 big plays to South Carolina, but the strength was meant to be the
Read moreWeek 3 SEC Preview: Auburn at Penn State, Alabama at Florida
After the relative dross of SEC games last week, Week 3 of the season – on paper anyway – is a beautiful mixture of in-house SEC clashes, and some ‘dope’ out-of-conference clashes, which are the filling of some pretty dry bread that you can avoid if you take it away. For a lot of people looking at the season early, it was all going to be about Alabama vs Florida in The Swamp, with a packed Gainseville crowd looking for blood. There was going to be a new Alabama after the NFL had once again decimated the team, and Dan Mullen was going to pull of miracles? Oh, and then we saw what Alabama could do, and dear Lord it’s
Read moreSEC Preview Week 2: Who wins the old-SWC war?
Last week I finished 12-2 straight-up, with the losses from LSU and – you guessed it- Vanderbilt. It’s easy to look at the SEC schedule and think: “Dear Lord, what a trainwreck of a day. There is NOTHING to watch. My team’s gonna win by 400, so I might watch a quarter of it and then go and watch something else.” But…. Then if you’re a college football historian, there’s one match-up that you should love: Texas (-7, O/U 56.5) at Arkansas. The Longhorns and Razorbacks have played 78 times when rooted in the old Southwest Conference, including a stretch when they played every year from 1932 to 1991. The Longhorns have owned the rivalry 56-22, but since 2000
Read moreDawgs on Top: Week 1 SEC Rankings
Week 1 in the SEC was fun. Georgia shut down Clemson with a defense that was absolutely frightening. Alabama rolled – and we mean ROLLED – against Miami, and LSU lost at UCLA. Everyone else? Auburn, Kentucky, South Carolina and Texas A&M all christened their series in style, while Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi State survived despite playing dreadfully, and Vanderbilt’s loss to ETSU was so bad that it had us questioning whether they should play football. Anyway, here are our rankings for the 11 SEC teams that we’ve seen this season. Ole Miss play Louisville on Monday (and we’ll adjust them then, but here’s now!). Georgia (1-0): OK, we get that Alabama’s victory over Miami was really impressive. Totally understand
Read moreSEC Predictions for Week 1
Last week was Week 0. Yeah, we saw a B1G match-up between Nebraska and Illinois, as well as UCLA putting a beating on Hawaii, but that was about it. But this week is where the big guns come in, and every team comes and flexes their muscles. As usual, we’re going by games that interest us the most. And weirdly Alabama – is in the Top 3. No.5 Georgia vs No.3 Clemson (-3, O/U 51.5) (Charlotte): This is a game that everyone’s been excited about since it came on the schedule last year. And although Georgia’s ranked No.5 and Clemson’s ranked No.3, these are two bona fide National Championship favorites. And both have the chance to run the table if
Read moreSEC Preview: Can Alabama repeat this season?
Alabama’s National Championship last season was a beauty. They buried defenses on offense, and after the Ole Miss near-debacle, they buried defenses too. But the NFL scourged a team like we’ve never team. The Crimson Tide had SIX first round picks (WRs Jaylen Waddle, DeVonta Smith, CB Patrick Surtain, QB Mac Jones, OT Alex Leatherwood, RB Najee Harris), plus second rounder C Lance Dickerson and DT Christian Barmore and OG Deonte Brown (6th round) and LS Thomas Fletcher (6th round). LB Dylan Moses, TE Miller Forristall, TE Carl Tucker and LB Josh McMillon. To put in in ‘Bama terms, that’s a Heisman winner (Smith), a Heisman finalist (Jones), a possible Heisman-finalist-if-he-hadn’t-gotten-injured (Waddle), one of the best CBs in the country
Read moreSEC Preview: Tennessee’s at Year 1…..again
It seems only five minutes ago that Tennessee fired Butch Jones. Since then, the Vols fired Jeremy Pruitt for alleged recruiting violations (more’s the fact that they didn’t want to pay him any severance pay, and have since been sued), and hired UCF head coach Josh Heupel. Once a National Championship-winning QB at Oklahoma, Heupel helped to develop one of the fastest-paced offenses in college football, revolutionizing Missouri’s offense before going to UCF and putting together a 28-8 record. At least that’s what the PR from Knoxville would tell you. If you look carefully, Heupel’s 12-1 record was riding on the coattails of Scott Frost’s 13-0 ‘National Championship’-winning team, and since then, it’s been a bit more pedestrian (10-3 and
Read moreLSU puts up vaccination-only rules for Tiger Stadium
After a few dreadful months encompassing the installment of an idiot of a women’s basketball head coach to allegations of sexual assault, LSU’s athletic department finally got something right: They are banning anyone who’s over 12 and not vaccinated or can’t show a negative test from coming into Tiger Stadium. “As the flagship institution of the state of Louisiana, our foremost responsibility is to ensure the safety of our students, our supporters, and our community,” LSU President William Tate IV said. “While we are aware of the diverse perspectives across the nation regarding masks and vaccinations, we must take all reasonable measures to protect our campus and community, not only on gamedays, but long after guests have left Tiger Stadium.
Read moreSEC Preview: The Mystery that is Auburn
With Gus Malzah, the University of Auburn was always a mystery. A fun mystery, but a mystery nonethleless. This was a team that would beat Georgia or Alabama or LSU one season, and lose terrible games to a poor Mississippi team, or – as was the case last year – a piss-poor South Carolina team. But in the background was always Alabama, Alabama, Alabama. Never mind that Malzahn had taken his team to a National Championship Game where they lost in heartbreaker, won a National Championship Game as an OC, and won the SEC Championship twice. His 3-5 record against Alabama proved he could do it when others couldn’t (3-5 isn’t terrible), and his 3-5 record against LSU in one
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