Bama left out: Who’s to blame?
Bama left out: Who’s to blame?
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If your SEC Coaches were one big frat
Just heard from the SEC: “The coaches aren’t just a group of head coaches, they are a fraternity”. In our mind, they’ve gotta be SAEs, because they’ve got a ton of money and attract the Rock-Hunters. But we might be wrong. Kirby Smart: ‘The Prez’ has got the SEC hairdo, is slightly overweight, and can’t get enough of his visor. Doesn’t care what his guys do with their cars. After a few beers he can get belligerent and wants to fight everyone. But he wins. And that’s what this lot of SAEs care about. Barks at people. Eli Drinkwitz: ‘Smirky’ causes most of the crap and runs away having caused an almighty explosion. He’s dangerous because everyone likes his humor
Read moreAP Poll, ESPN Polls are out: Where SEC teams stand
First of all, the SEC could get four in the Play-Off (Georgia, Texas, Tennessee and one of Alabama, Ole Miss and South Carolina), but it’s unlikely. But the SEC Championship is set: Georgia v Texas in Atlanta. The AP Poll has made everything really interesting for SEC teams. We’ll keep you updated with the Play-Off Committee’s thoughts on Tuesday. Oh, and we think the SEC Championship Game is a waste of time. All the game is going to give us is injuries. And both sets of fans — while there is certainly going to be a massive boost to their egos by winning the conference — would rather have a week (or two) off before the play-offs. TEAMS DEFINITELY IN
Read moreA BRIEF Thanksgiving Football Preview
OK, we’re writing this at the opening salvo of The Egg Bowl (still 0-0), and the notion of ‘we need to get this done earlier this week’ got thrown to the layby because of the Thanksgiving break and two toddlers who refused to sleep. Anyway, we’re going high-speed for all the games this week. FRIDAY We’ve covered the Ole Miss v Mississippi State game and why we’re watching it, so there’s little point in a preview. Sorry, Lane. GEORGIA TECH AT NO.7 GEORGIA (-17.5) Why should you be interested? Georgia’s very much in a play-off hunt. Otherwise, we expect Georgia – if they have a comfortable lead by the fourth quarter – to take their pedal off the medal to
Read moreThanks to craziness, Georgia’s back in Atlanta
Thanks to untold madness happening around them, the Georgia Bulldogs are back in the SEC Championship Game. They will face off against the winner of Texas and Texas A&M, who play on Thanksgiving Saturday. Texas A&M – despite losing to Auburn – will get in because they win the head-to-head against Texas, while Texas would go to Atlanta to face a rematch with the Bulldogs if they beat Texas A&M – therefore winning out. It’s gonna be one hell of a Saturday. Right now, trying to rank everyone is stupid, bearing in mind how much Ole Miss kicked itself in the nuts against Florida, how Texas A&M lost in four overtimes to a dreadful Auburn (thank God for the 2-pt
Read moreSEC Preview: This SEC week is going to be a strugglebus….
First of all, there are five SEC teams getting in the College Football Play-Off as things stand. That’s Texas, Alabama, Ole Miss, Georgia and Tennessee. Texas A&M and possibly South Carolina are on the outside looking in. Of course Greg Sankey more in, but so does every conference. The street-fight is going to get boring, and we’ll going to give you the lowdown on tie-breakers next week. The second thing: This SEC week is a struggle to preview, because most of the games aren’t great – one of this blog’s endless bug-bears is that any of these games actually exist at this time of year. SO, GAMES WE ARE INTERESTED IN: No.5 Indiana at No.2 Ohio State (-12.5): We’d love to
Read moreTexas? Georgia? A&M? Tennessee? Who’s going to get in?
OK, so it’s about that time when we try and work out what in the hell’s going on. With the four-teams-getting-selected-to-the-play-off-thing, it was pretty easy. Generally, the two teams in the SEC Championship got in, and the rest was the other guys. But now, it’s 4 conference winners (SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Big 12) + Notre Dame (on a good season) + The top non-4 conference team. That means that it’s a bun-fight of epic proportions for the other three spots. If you by the AP Top 25, then here are the teams in: Oregon Ohio State Texas Penn State Indiana Notre Dame Alabama Georgia Ole Miss Tennessee Miami Boise State The Top Big 12 team, by the way, is
Read moreSEC Preview: Bulldogs roll into Ole Miss, and course, Bama-LSU
Georgia’s off to its second rough road game in three games, this time rolling into Oxford, where expectancy’s back to being sky-high after the Rebs smashed Arkansas on the road. Had they lost that, Lane Kiffin might be facing the hurricane of rage — as well as an almost-certain miss from a play-off spot. It’s gonna be fun in Oxford. It’s also Bama-LSU weekend, which is going to get everyone very excited. It’s also going to be a lot of fun because of the level of jeopardy on this, with the loser likely not to make the play-off. The atmosphere – even without Nick Saban there as a head coach – is likely to be off the hook (Going to
Read moreSEC Preview: The most middling schedule of the year
While the B1G has a monstrous game (Penn State v Ohio State), two unbeatens battle in the ACC (Pitt v SMU) and Colorado going in as flavor-of-the-month (again) at what will be a raucous Texas Texas, the SEC has Georgia v Florida, which is going to be a stretch if you consider both teams – and a lot of very middling games. Therefore this preview is going to be pretty darned quick. Vanderbilt at Auburn (-7.5): The Commodores could experience a slide backwards after their incredible battles against Texas and Alabama – simply because they are on the road. Even if Auburn’s terrible, Jordan-Hare’s a tough place to play. PREDICTION: Jarquez Hunter gets the job done for the Barners. Auburn
Read moreKirby Smart’s lost control of Georgia football
Kirby Smart isn’t the only one in the history of college football to have lost the control of their programs. The first that was acknowledged was Miami, when players seemed to have a season ticket to jail. Florida State managed a few years with Bobby Bowden, and then Florida took it to a whole new level with Urban Meyer – a time that included wildly successful football, drug dealing and AK-47s…alongside White Jesus Himself. Les Miles’ LSU team had their run-ins with the law in moments that included battery and robbery, and Alabama teams of the past certainly had conversations with the police (although nothing quite topped the basketball team and ‘wrong spot, wrong time‘. Heck, there’s even a cup
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