Category: Florida

Eliah Drinkwitz named as Missouri Coach

After a lot of quick hot stove conversation, Eli Drinkwitz was named as Missouri’s coach on Tuesday. 36-year old Drinkwitz, who comes from Appalachian State after posting an 11-1 record last season, was in the SEC for Auburn in 2010-1 as the quality control coach, before going to Arkansas State with then-OC Gus Malzahn and then onto Boise State and NC State as he moved furiously up the coaching food chain.“ “Coach Malzahn and I actually got together this past summer and talked and I think there was some surprise, on both sides, about how far we both evolved from those (early) points together — but we still have that foundation of our time together, too.” He will be the youngest coach

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Burrow is the Heisman favorite + SEC Awards

Joe Burrow is the unaninmous Heisman favorite, and that’s all you can really say on that. His incredible season has dropped the jaw of the nation, as the QB put up astronomic numbers all season long, and then showed off his brilliance at the SEC Championship Game with a stunning 28-38, 349 yard, 4 TD performance as well as 41 yards of tidy rushing on 11 attempts. While J’Marr Chase and Justin Jefferson were certainly the saws into Georgia’s defense, he was the blade. Alabama fans will have something to celebrate bearing in mind that former QB Jalen Hurts is in the conversation as Oklahoma’s starter, and there is also incredible Ohio State DE Chase Young, as well as Ohio

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Joey Gatewood transfers to Kentucky

Former Auburn QB Joey Gatewood has transferred to Kentucky. Gatewood left the Tigers in the middle of the season when it became obvious that he wouldn’t overtake Bo Nix in Gus Malzahn’s pecking order – a move that was ridiculed by Auburn Nation (at least until the Tigers beat Alabama last week). He came to The Plains in 2018 as a highly-recruited player, where he totalled 5 touchdowns and over 200 yards in combined passing and rushing. It is expected that junior Lynn Bowden, who has carried the team with 1,235 yards and 11 TDs (including 284 against Louisville) after coverting from the wide receiver spot will return to his original place. Gatewood will challenge Sawyer Smith and Terry Wilson for

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The SEC Championship Game: Preview and Predictions

The Super Bowl 2019 has arrived! Yes, it’s the SEC Championship Game. While it seems a bit of a relief to have someone other than Alabama or Auburn as the SEC West’s representative (LSU is there for the first time since 2011), Georgia seems to be installed in The Big Game, having been there for the last three consecutive years (1-2 record). This year, there’s all to play for. LSU, who are No.2 in the nation behind Ohio State, will definitely go to the College Football Play-Off with a win over Georgia (and probably will get in anyway!), while No. 4 Georgia will definitely get in with a win over LSU, because the Committee are unlikely to jump Utah or

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Ole Miss fires Luke a day after Missouri cans Odom

The weekend was always going to be messy for head coaches. Nicknamed ‘Black Friday’ in the college football world, schools tend to get rid of the pieces that they don’t like as quickly as possible in an effort to show their all-important recruits as well as boosters that winning is all-important. At Ole Miss, Matt Luke lost his job after a 15-21 record (6-18 in the SEC) in three seasons. You could hardly blame Luke for failures after his first season. He was given a poisoned chalice in NCAA sanctions and the firing of Hugh Freeze. The boosters liked him, the players liked him (according to the Clarion-Ledger a number of players walked out of the meeting angrily) , but the powers-that-be,

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Predictions for the Iron Bowl and all other SEC games

Get your last dose of jam-packed college football Saturdays this weekend. On your Thursday you can drift into Turkey hell with this year’s Egg Bowl (Ole Miss vs Mississippi State), go to Friday for the ‘Thank God the Season’s Over Bowl’ between Missouri and Arkansas, then refresh again for a Saturday with ‘Good Ole Fashioned Hate’ with Georgia vs Georgia Tech , The Commonwealth Cup (Louisville vs Kentucky) or one of the more underrated hate games in the South, the Clemson vs South Carolina game. Then move onto The Iron Bowl (which you can put on silent because Gary Danielson will be commentating on it), or 30 mins later Tennessee’s continuing story of redemption at Vanderbilt and then end up

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The Worst Coaching Hires At Each SEC School

A few days after he was announced as the head coach of Arizona State, I put a tweet out that basically said how much the hire sucked. I wasn’t the only one. After last Saturday’s stunning win over Oregon, I might well have been wrong. That got me thinking to hirings that have happened in the SEC…..and the bad ones. We’re not going anywhere near Arkansas’ interim coaching hire John L. Smith, because he inherited Bobby Petrino’s trainwreck (or motorcycle wreck) and then Brett Bielema arrived. Every SEC school has had their crappy SEC hires. Some further back in time than others. ALABAMA: Jennings B. Whitworth (1955-57): Although circumstances weren’t great for Whitworth (he came after Harold Drew’s 4-5-2 season,

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Texas A&M vs Georgia: Barking Predictions

  Texas A&M visits Georgia for the first time in its SEC history. For CBS, Gary Danielson will try and sound sympathetic if a football player runs into a photographer (probably for the first time in history), and Brad Nessler will call his buddy ‘pardner’, like he was John Wayne in an ole shoot-out movie (as he does every week). It would be strange if anything else – like an upset in Texas A&M’s favour – happened. But that’s not the important part that you should pay attention. It’s the parallels you should pay attention to: They both have weird affections for dogs Texas A&M takes the affection for the canine to a whole new level. Aggies fans worship Reveille

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SEC Rankings: LSU is a Big-12 team

For once people are talking about what this blog has been ranting about all season long: LSU’s defense is utter crap. They were shredded by Texas, Florida and Alabama – all of which were good teams – so we’ll grant them that. The secondary – the self-proclaimed ‘DBU’ throughout the season hasn’t been great. And it was all shown up on Saturday against Ole Miss. LSU won because their offense was a little better than Ole Miss’ in the Tigers’ 58-37 victory, but the defense gave up SIX HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN YARDS, including 400 on the ground. We’ll say it again, 400 yards on the ground. The defensive line never hurried John Rhys Plumlee and Matt Corrall, and they totalled just 5

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Why are people so in love with LSU suddenly?

The outpouring of love from the media for LSU has ben stunning this year. Sports Illustrated did an article on the beauty of the spread offense about Northwestern State. People couldn’t stop talking about Joe Burrow’s freak performance against Texas (forgetting LSU’s defense had given up a boatload to Texas that day). College Gameday went to Death Valley for the LSU/Florida game – a game covered by ESPN (which made Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit happy, because generally their games this season have been utterly forgettable). And then, when LSU went to Alabama, they beat them for the first time in eight years. It wasn’t just Alabama or Nick Saban-haters who celebrated. It felt like the whole country. THE BACKGROUND

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