Tag: TAMU

Texas? Georgia? A&M? Tennessee? Who’s going to get in?

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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

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SEC Preview: Bulldogs roll into Ole Miss, and course, Bama-LSU

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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

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SEC Preview: The most middling schedule of the year

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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

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SEC Rankings: Texas A&M is the best team in the SEC

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So here are our rankings for the SEC….   Texas A&M (7-1): The Aggies beat LSU on Saturday night, meaning that they have the SEC’s only unbeaten record. And looking at the schedule- and we’re increasingly confident that they’ll beat Texas at Thanksgiving – they should face off against Georgia in the SEC Championship Game. What Mike Elko has done so well is recognize when his quarterback’s playing terribly, and change him (See Conor Weigman for Marcel Reed – who has wheels and a good arm) out. Georgia (6-1): After losing to Alabama and then two very ordinary performances against Auburn and Missisippi State, Georgia came to Texas and rolled – mostly on the strength of their defense, which forced

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Is Texas A&M – LSU ramping up to be a great SEC rivalry?

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Let’s get this straight: The LSU – Texas A&M rivalry is not considered a geographic rivalry, bearing in mind that – on a good day – it’s about 6 hours drive away. Plus, Texas A&M is as obsessed with beating Texas as LSU is obsessed with beating Alabama: Nick Saban or not. Plus, A&M only came into the SEC since 2012, and Mile Slive & Co put together these every-year games. But since they came along, we’ve had a seven-overtime game, which told the powers-that-be in Indianapolis that we didn’t need, er, seven overtime games. And since 2018, the rivalry has been 3-3. Yes, not many games have been particularly close, but this one promises to be different. That’s because Texas

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WEEK 9: Texas. Georgia. Austin. 7pm. Watch.

Every week seems to bring along a Top 5 match-up, and this week will be the same when No.1 Texas hosts No.5 Georgia in Austin. Thanks to the TV people, the game won’t be played in the life-obliterating early-to-middle-of-the-afternoon Texas heat (unlike the Texas – Oklahoma game, in which the stadium concessions people ran out of water by half-time), but instead as the sun comes down over DKR. And we can’t wait. Elsewhere, No.7 Alabama goes to No.11 Tennessee in the annual ‘Third Saturday In October’ match-up, Arkansas go to No.8 LSU, Auburn goes to No.19 Missouri, Oklahoma hosts South Carolina, Mississippi State hosts 14 Texas A&M, and everybody’s Sudden Football Darling Vanderbilt plays Ball State in Nashville. Oh, and

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Week 6: Will Texas A&M get a Top 10 scalp?

Missouri comes into Saturday’s game at Kyle Field with trepidation. It’s not because they haven’t played each other before (it’s 2-2 in SEC play since they both came into the conference in 2012), it’s because they were so lousy against Vanderbilt, while the Texas A&M-Marcel Reed combination has looked better and better. But there are other interesting games this Saturday too. Ole Miss can’t possibly play as badly as they did against Kentucky this week when they visit South Carolina, can they? Will No.4 Tennessee avoid problems at Arkansas? Will Alabama continue to roll against Vanderbilt? Can Georgia get over the ‘loss hangover’ at home to ancient rival Auburn? And will Florida continue to recover against UCF? Anyway, there are some

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Week 5 Rankings: Alabama’s back at No.1 in the SEC

At the end of the season, we’ll be talking about great games. If the Alabama v Georgia game isn’t in your Top 2, you’re probably wrong. They played out a crazy, wonderful, game-of-two-halves classic that was finished with a crazy-brilliant touchdown by a kid who happens to be the 17-year old cousin of one Serena Williams Anyway, here are our rankings after Week 5 of the SEC season. 1. Alabama: Calen DeBoer’s gonna win games he should have lost (see last season v Oregon and Texas) and lose games he should have won. His clock management will be questionable. But through all of this, he will be bloody entertaining to watch. It’s gonna be some ride, Alabama fans. 2. Tennessee:

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Week 4 SEC Power Rankings: Tennessee’s our New No.1

1. Tennessee (4-0):While Tennessee won’t go No.1 in the AP Polls, Tennessee now has two wins over ranked opponents – one of the only teams to do so in this early part of the season. The Vols aren’t just your hyperseedy, fun-and-gun offense that Josh Heupel often throws out, they’ll also grind you to the ground. This team is goooood, folks. 2. Texas (4-0): ARCH MANNING ARCH MANNING ARCH MANNING PICK ARCH MANNING TOUCHDOWNS ARCH MANNING HEISMAN CONFIRMED ARCH MANNING ARCH MANNING DON’T MATTER IF YOU PLAYED NOBODY TODAY ARCH MANNING ARCH MANNING 3. Georgia (3-0): Resounding win over bye week, which is above most of the opponents that have played Georgia so far this year. 4. Ole Miss (4-0): Offense

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Week 4 Preview: Tennessee and Oklahoma in the ‘Stoops Bowl’!

If Tennessee and Oklahoma are playing the ‘Heupel Bowl’ on Saturday, then Florida and Mississippi State are playing “Horses**t Bowl” in Starkville. There’s also Arkansas and Auburn in the latest referendum on Sam Pittman’s job, Vanderbilt at Missouri, Ohio at Kentucky, Bowling Green at Texas A&M, Akron at South Carolina, Ole Miss’ latest joke of a home game when they play Georgia Southern, and who could forget Texas and Louisiana-Monroe? Oh, and there’s the LSU v UCLA game, which would have been a lot of fun two years ago. This year’s probably going to be a massacre. Anywhere, here are our Week 4 Preview, which are once again in order of games we’ll be caring about:   No.6 Tennessee (-6.5)

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