Category: South Carolina

No Clowning Around on Clowney Day? SEC Predictions Week 1

Wow. So this is it. It’s the start of the 2013 college football season today, and this is a wonderful thing. In fact, I’m in tears of excitement just thinking about it. Anyways, here are our SEC Predictions THURSDAY North Carolina at South Carolina South Carolina’s defensive superstar and potential NFL No.1 pick Jadeveon Clowney is getting re-unleashed on the world against a North Carolina offence trying to pick its offensive line back up. South Carolina have to replace running back Marcus Lattimore but quarterback Connor Shaw is more than capable of winning the game – especially when’s it at home at a very, very loud Williams-Brice Stadium. South Carolina is a 12 ½-point favourite against a team that on

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Top Five of Just About Everything SEC

Fed up with Top 10s, we’re going even narrower with our Top five of EVERYTHING SEC (well, almost everything). So enjoy reading, and come back with your comments.         TOP FIVE PLAYERS IN THE SEC NOT NAMED JOHNNY OR JADEVEON 1. Todd Gurley/Keith Marshall (RBs, Georgia) – Gurshall! 2. Amari Cooper (WR, Alabama) – Best wide receiver in the SEC, and maybe college football 3. Michael Evans, WR Texas A&M – He’s pretty good, too. 4. AJ McCarron (QB, Alabama) – Has the keys to a Porsche, but all he does is win. 5. Aaron Murray (QB, Georgia) – Will be going to the NFL. TOP FIVE FRESHMEN WITH UNREAL POTENTIAL 1. Robert Ndemkiche (Ole Miss) –

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Three-peat for ‘Bama? 2013 Alabama College Football Preview

Is there ever going to be a year that Alabama will NOT be the favorite, or one of the favorites, for a national title? Well, after 2012, when Alabama waltzed home with its second straight National Championship, we’ll answer that: Probably not. Nick Saban’s the country’s best coach. Nick Saban’s one of the country’s best recruiters. All Nick Saban does (unless you’re referring to his NFL career) is win. His team brings back their starting quarterback who just knows how to win, and an exceptional wide receiver who doesn’t drop anything. Their running back stable is the best in the country. And their defence is frighteningly good. But will he get his third straight National Championship? A lot of people

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Heeeeeeere’s Johnny! Texas A&M 2013 Preview

Furious about Texas’ Longhorn Network, the Aggies went to the SEC, and the conference is all the better for it, people. And while Texas’ coaching staff – and defense – was getting shredded during 2012, Texas A&M were making the biggest waves it has done since Bear Bryant was coaching back in the day of the Junction Boys. Kevin Sumlin arrived at a press conference almost upon arrival, and said: “I want to be around people who want to play at the highest level in the best conference in America. If you’re scared of that, get a dog.” Well, the Aggies were the dog in 2012, chomping on their new SEC West rivals. They are the most celebrated side of

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Will Butch Jones redeem the Vols?: Tennessee 2013 Preview

Butch Jones has arrived in Tennessee, and  it’s his job to right a ship that pretty much sank under the ‘stewardship’ of Derek Dooley. The good news is is that he still has some playmakers and weapons playing for him – they didn’t all decide to transfer. The bad news is is that the Vols are playing catch-up in a nasty SEC and an even nastier division – the SEC East, where the ‘haves’ are Georgia, South Carolina and Florida….and former ‘little brother’ Vanderbilt are becoming the conference’s hottest story. So how will things work out in 2013. Here’s our preview. LAST YEAR It’s strange, because last year wasn’t a truly awful one for Tennessee….at the start, anyway. The Vols

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Insane Clowney Posse? 2013 South Carolina Preview

It was a weird year for South Carolina. Thanks to a two-tier QB system of Connor Shaw and Dylan Thompson, the fact that Shaw seemed to struggle with getting battered by fast SEC players didn’t matter. They won close games. They lost a few, too. They beat Georgia….and still didn’t go to the SEC Championship game because they lost to Florida…..and to LSU. Jadeveon Clowney was undoubtedly the star of the Gamecocks, partnering his frightening size with brutal speed and amazing playmaking ability. We can’t wait to see him this year…..and nor can most people. So here goes our preview… OFFENSE The great thing about South Carolina’s QB ‘quandry’ is that it really isn’t a quandry in the least. Both

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ESPN’s ‘Best Student Sections In College Football’ Slideshow: Are you joking?

——BY ALEX FERGUSON/@viewfromamerica For The SEC Football Blog—- Thanks to reading a little Saturday Down South, they pointed me towards ESPN’s latest slideshow: “The Top 20 Student Sections in College Football”. No. 1 was Alabama. Georgia, Tennessee and Florida were all included, as were Auburn. As lists go, it was a terrible list. Thanks to SDS, who listed it out so we didn’t have to, here is the Top 20 list: 1. Alabama 2. Florida State 3. Penn State 4. Nebraska 5. Illinois 6. Oklahoma 7. Pittsburgh 8. North Carolina 9. Georgia 10. Tennessee 11. Wisconsin 12. Maryland 13. Florida 14. Miami 15. Cincinnati 16. SMU 17. TCU 18. Michigan 19. Auburn 20. Harvard We’re not going to be a SEC

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Calling The Hogs: 2013 Arkansas College Football Preview

If there’s any season that Arkansas fans would like to brush under the carpet, it’s 2012. The Hogs were horrible under John L. Smith, the interim coach who probably never would have stayed in his role ANYWAY- even if the Razorbacks had been bowl eligible. Bobby Petrino started 2012 horribly, got fired for sexual indiscretions (and lying about it – and making us all laugh in the process), and Smith’s press conferences and his horrible team made us laugh even harder at the end. But then they hired Wisconsin’s coach Bret Bielema, and we stopped laughing at the guys at Fayetteville. There’s no question Bielema has the experience of coaching for big teams in high-pressure environments. Wisconsin was both. Bielema

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Can Missouri Finally Arrive? 2013 Missouri Tigers Preview

Right, how does one say this about Missouri? In 2013, it’s quite difficult to say that they were goddawful, bearing in mind that they had two more SEC victories than Auburn (two), and took a National Championship frontrunner to the hilt (Florida), but at times, they really did look like men against boys. This year Missouri will be looking for a vast improvement on their 5-7 year. So how will they do it? LAST YEAR Missouri simply weren’t that good last year. Sure, they battled gamely against Georgia and Florida – and scored two SEC victories against Kentucky and Tennessee – but seeing them embarrassed against Alabama, Texas A&M and South Carolina reminded us that Gary Pinkel’s side wasn’t really

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Can The Dawgs Make Another Championship Game? 2013 Georgia Bulldogs Preview

Some people blame the play on Aaron Murray. Some blame it on Mark Richt. Some people just blame it on God. Because God, that loss in the SEC Championship Game stung Georgia fans so much more than losing to Georgia Tech, because this could have been the time when the Dawgs talked about being a National Championship team (we think they would have beaten Notre Dame as easily as Alabama). But the Dawgs are back. They are Jarvis Jones-less. They are Rambo-less. They go to Clemson and South Carolina at home on the second game – against another hated foe, Steve Spurrier. That’s the nation’s hardest first two games by an absolute mile. Something thinks they might win a National

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