Are we getting into Auburn firing territory?

On Sunday Penn State fired James Franklin, owing him $41m lovely green notes to make him go away. Before that, Arkansas had bombed out Sam Pittman, but here was the difference between the two: The Razorbacks had Bobby Petrino in place to take the reigns, like him or hate him. Immediately after Franklin was fired, there was a roar from The Plains. It was the sound of Auburn fans. In one voice, they yelled: “GET RID OF GODDAMN HUGH FREEZE!” Our favorite escort phonecaller hasn’t taken the team forward since Bryan Harsin was kicked to the kerb. In fact, he’s continued the team’s losing tradition by posting two straight losing seasons and is on course for another feckless one. The

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WEEK 5: A Monster week for the SEC

Listen, it’s such a week for college football we don’t know where to start. Before we start the SEC, we think that Oregon will beat Penn State by 7 in the ‘White Out’, which one of my Southern friends referred to as a ‘Klan Rally’ (he has seen excommunicated me because I was too ‘liberal’, but that’s another story). Any, a lot of these ‘monster match-ups’ are in the SEC, so here we go….once in the order of our interest.  No.4 LSU at No.9 Ole Miss (-1.5): Do not try and rush the ball on LSU (10th in the country at rushing yards given up), but it’s OK to throw at them (43 internationally, 9th in the SEC in passing

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