Category: Kentucky

SEC 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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SEC: What direction will Mississippi State go?

After the first game against LSU, Mike Leach was a beloved football genius, and the best thing to come to the SEC since Lane Kiffin. By the end of the season, there were more questions than answers, unfortunately. Oh, and LSU win wasn’t as impressive bearing in mind the Tigers’ defense was utterly dreadful. Will Mike Leach’s second year turn out to be better than his 3-5 SEC record? OFFENSE KJ Costello – who arrived from Stanford for the SEC – ended up getting hurt, and never got his job back from freshman Will Rogers. Maybe that was because he ended up with interceptions (11) than touchdowns (6). Rogers ended up with more touchdowns (11) than interceptions (7). Rogers threw

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SEC Preview: Ole Miss is all gas

If you love old school Big 12 or Pac-12 football, where they put up a kiddy amount of points and no-one plays any defense, then Ole Miss was your favorite team last year. Averaging 39.2 points per game and 555 yards per game, the Rebels worried every defense in the country. And boy (if you love your offense) was it fun. But Ole Miss was lousy at defense. They were worst in the SEC in giving up points, rushing yards allowed, second-last in passing yards allowed, and total yards. Nationally, the best they had defensive (points allowed), ranked…..117th. So boy (if you love your defense) it was miserable. So in an effort to not make any depressed, we’re not going

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Florida: After the glories of 2020….Now what?

Last season was a weird season for Florida. Florida finished the season winning the SEC East, beating Georgia in the process. They lost a heartbreaker at Texas A&M, saw themselves in a continuing argument with Texas A&M about who should be the country’s 4th-best play-off team….and then lost to heavy underdog LSU at home in a situation that will be a meme for years to come, and then battled Alabama to the end in the SEC Championship Game. Their bowl game – after their freaks Kyle Pitts and Kadarius Toney – as well as Trevon Grimes – packed up their boots and went to the NFL Draft – ended up with the Gators getting nuked by Oklahoma. Because without those

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SEC Preview: Will Texas A&M finally succeed?

      Last year, Texas A&M was the most interesting conversation in the SEC. After their win over Florida, we all asked the question: “Should they be in the play-off?”. We questioned Ohio State’s credentials. We argued to death about Notre Dame prior to the Irish getting the green kicked out of them by Clemson in the ACC Championship Game. Sadly, the Aggies didn’t go the Play-Off – which they arguably deserved ahead 7-0 Ohio State – and there we remained asking more questions. So in 2021, will they finally succeed on reaching Everest? OFFENSE Although he had his issues in his game against Vanderbilt, Kellen Mond came on as quite the leader in 2020 for the Aggies, finishing

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SEC Preview: Kentucky: Better-than-bowl eligible?

If there is one team that’s utterly predictable in the last six years in the SEC, it’s Kentucky. Only once in the last six years have the Wildcats lost less than 5 games, and only twice in the last six years have the Wildcats won more than six. They’ve taken advantage of a weak SEC East by consistently beating Missouri (5-1 over that time, Vanderbilt (5-1) and South Carolina (5-1). They aren’t bad against Tennessee (2-4), but against Florida (1-5) and Georgia (0-6), they’ve been hopeless. Against permanent cross-division rival Mississippi State they’ve been moderately successful (3-3), but they’ve not been able to beat Alabama, Auburn, LSU or LSU (although smaller sample sizes). The only team they’ve got a winning

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Can LSU recover from their shocking 2020?

In a way, LSU exemplified a lot of teams in the SEC: Lots of offense, not a lot of defense. The two most balanced teams – Alabama and Texas A&M – were in the Top 5 in the country – and even Florida (6th) had issues stopping people. Look, we knew that LSU would take a step back from their set-the-world-alight 2020. The good players either declared for the draft, or decided to opted out for COVID reasons, or opt out during the season. Basically, LSU was a running a threadbare organisation. But we didn’t know how threadbare they were until they stepped on the field against Mississippi State….and were outplayed by them. And yees, you would have expected losses to

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How will Myles Brennan’s injury affect LSU’s QB race?

News came through yesterday that Myles Brennan – the heir to Joe Burrow before he was hurt in 2020 – injured a shoulder and will need a season-ending operation this year, too. Of course, this is sad news for Tiger Nation – but what does it do to LSU’s QB Depth? Now that Brennan’s injured, and last year’s replacement QB TJ Finley transferred to Auburn (in an effort to fight for the job when current incumbent Bo Nix leaves), LSU’s has a real problem with depth. There’s no denying that the job is basically in the hands of Max Johnson – who started LSU’s last two games – if he doesn’t get injured, too. Johnson had a pretty good set

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