Tag: Florida

The Biggest SEC rivalries

Hey there! This writer’s also got a substack page: ‘The View From North America’, and we’re writing about the Top 30 College Football Rivalry names around. There are some SEC names out there, but there’s some facts we never realized: Missouri and Oklahoma have played each other 92 times, from the Big Eight times to the Big 12 to now. LSU – Tulane used to be called “Battle For The Rag”, and was played 98 times before Tulane upped stakes and left for the SEC before academics was becoming less important than sports (Note: At most schools academics is less important than sports and partying). Georgia Tech – Auburn was played 92 times Georgia Tech’s decision to the leave the

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Florida (finally) fires Billy Napier

I have a friend called Davis who’s a Florida fan. He’s still basking in the wake of Florida’s March Madness victory, but he said yesterday was one of the best days of his life. Why? Because Florida finally fired Billy Napier. Napier had come aboard after two bowl wins following brilliant seasons at Louisiana-Lafayette, but his 11-14 record – including zero wins against Georgia, 1-4 against Tennesee and 1-3 against Florida State. He was also 5-17 against ranked opponents, which probably would have made him a hero at Penn State, but in the SEC (where he went 12-16 in conference play), that was never going to go down well. But the biggest thing that proved to be Napier’s downfall was

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Ranking SEC midway through: All change, all the time

This year’s SEC is once again a shitshow. While we know who the worst team is (Kentucky), it’s once again hard to work out the cream of the crop. Texas beat Oklahoma to put itself back into the hunt of a Play-Off spot. Alabama beat Missouri, and Georgia squeaked by Auburn in a game that was more ref-decided than anything else. As The Joker says: “So here we go….” Texas A&M  Alabama  Ole Miss  Missouri  Georgia  Tennessee  LSU  Texas Oklahoma  Vanderbilt  Florida Mississippi State  Arkansas  Auburn South Carolina  Kentucky

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WEEK 7: A Red River Runs Through It

Listen from someone who’s been to the Red River Shoot-Out: It’s a great scene, but the rest of it is kinda crappy. First of all, getting anywhere near the stadium sucks, unless you’re incredibly lucky (Dallas’ transport system is fine, but there’s no-one giving directions). Secondly, getting into the stadium via Big Tex is not a fun experience. Shit, entering any part of the stadium a little close to kick-off is not a fun experience. In fact, it’s a crush. Thirdly, when the Texas sun beats on those steel benches – and remember the stadium is round so there’s no breeze that can through it – it’s hot as all hell. But once you forget about that, the pageantry and

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WEEK 6 PREVIEW: Will Texas and Florida take us back to the Stone Age?

Before I start, here’s a link from a UK Premier League about something that a lot of men suffer from: Depression. “We’re not talking Georgia beat Alabama and now I’m depressed” depression, we’re talking: “I am with 100,000 people and I feel totally alone” depression. And if we see someone like that at our games, we need to talk to them before its too late. I wish the NCAA would do something along the lines of this, but they won’t, because money. Anyway, here’s something to lighten the mood: My Week 6 picks for the SEC. This week, there aren’t a lot of teams on the schedule, which means that you’ll be getting something the size of Revelation for each game

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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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WEEK 4: SEC PREDICTIONS

Dear Lord it’s a boring week in the SEC… So here are your very short list of predictions 1. Florida at Miami (-7.5): Florida’s not the train wreck everyone thinks they are, and if they wipe stupid penalties away, this’ll be close(ish). The problem? Wiping out the stupid penalties. Oh, and CJ Lagway has to perform better than the LSU game (not hard, I know). And they have to stop a high-powered Miami team, which has been playing virtually spotless football on both sides of the ball.  PREDICTION: Miami by 10. 2. Auburn at OU (-6.5): Jackson Arnold throws 2 picks on his homecoming, and Mateer keeps up the Heisman conversation. PREDICTION: OU by 7. 3. South Carolina at Mizzou

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SEC Week 3: Georgia – Tennessee heads the list

We are getting to that beautiful point when SEC teams all play each other, and we don’t have to watch [add SEC team here] beat the living daylights out of [add poor FCS school here] on ESPN The Ocho. This Saturday, we’ve got a monster with Georgia going to Tennessee – which is also going to be your spot for College Gameday (first time since 2022, I’m told), Texas A&M going to Notre Dame and Wisconsin going to Alabama for a helmet game. Oh, and there’s Ole Miss hosting Arkansas, Vanderbilt visiting South Carolina, and the fun trainwreck of Florida going to LSU. Oh, and there’s a bunch of ‘snore games’ on the sked, which we’re not remotely excited about.

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Week 2 SEC Impressed/Depressed List: Florida ain’t good

    So my buddy Davis was so excited about Florida this year. Still high from the National Championship in basketball, he’s been full of the joys of Spring. He talked about the speed. The fight. He told me: “This is a year where things are going to be better. We’ve got a lot of speed, we’ll be fine”. Midway through the USF game, he texted me: “I thought it would take more than 1.5 weeks to turn off the TV during a Florida game”. While it’s probably early to throw out the death knell for Billy Napier’s Florida career, this result wasn’t good. SO HERE’S YOUR IMPRESSED LIST  Mississippi State (2-0): We had the Mighty Cowbellers winning this game,

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