Thursday, September 20th, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Last Saturday saw College Gameday once again decide to visit SEC Country, where the gang hit up Knoxville, TN for the Tennessee-Florida Game. Tons more exicitement than there had been in years for fans of Big Orange....same old result against those Gators.
Anyway, this week, Gameday's off to travel to the University of Florida's little brother in Tallahassee, where the mighty 'Noles will stick their flaming spear in the University of South Carolina's little brother and make them enjoy it. Anyway, this one should be exciting.
While in the SEC, we've got the 'Tiger War' between LSU and Auburn
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Monday, September 17th, 2012 at 11:45 pm
What a Week 3 it was. While Tennessee fans once again spat bullets about losing to Florida at home, they managed to drown their beers and sip some champagne as Lane Kiffin and No.2 USC lost at Pac-12 rival Stanford, we once again had evidence that there's only one team out there in College Football at the moment: Alabama. The SEC has a lot to catch up.
Anyway, here's the top 10 things about our SEC teams this week:
1) Tennessee lost the game against Florida because it had no running game and its wide receivers couldn't make easy catches. And when we're talking easy, we're talking ones like
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Friday, September 14th, 2012 at 2:01 am
Sorry we haven't been so quick this week about getting copy in, but we've been a bit busy.
Anyhoo, since you were away ESPN Gameday made it 3 out of 3 for College Gamedays involving SEC Schools - shall we simply call them SECSPN? It would be easier!
This one's coming from Neyland where Florida visit a revitalized Tennessee program. Kick-off 6pm. We can't wait - although we can't work out who we want to win/lose more...
With that, here's your preview...
GAME OF THE WEEK
Florida at Tennessee
Gameday is in Knoxville this weekend for the battle of the unbeatens, featuring a Florida
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Sunday, September 9th, 2012 at 2:49 pm
Wow. What a Week 2 for the SEC. And it was somewhat humbling, let me tell you (although not as humbling as the Big 10, who saw Wisconsin, Nebraska, Penn State, Purdue, Iowa and Illinois all lose, stalwarts Michigan and Ohio State tested) - especially in Fayetteville.
Anyway, this blog went an honest-to-God 9-2 yesterday, with our only bad predictions with Arkansas and Vanderbilt.
Anyway, here's some quick grades before a longer piece tomorrow, when we're feeling more, ahem, 'together'.
1) We completely underestimated Louisiana-Monroe. We thought they'd come to town, take their near-$1m,
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Thursday, September 6th, 2012 at 3:51 pm
First of all, apologies for not giving the blog too much updatin' recently. From Week 2, you'll get everything that you need for the rest of the season....
Anyway, here are our predictions for SEC teams in Week 2 of the season. There are going to be some walk-overs, and some close games. We promise.
Georgia at Missouri
Georgia gave up 23 points against Buffalo, and nothing clicked for the first part of the game as Buffalo took a 6-0 lead. Thankfully, Todd Gurley's kick-off return gave the Dawgs a 7-6 lead, and they didn't relinquish it, putting up a 45 points in a 45-23 lead. Missouri
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 at 7:02 pm
Georgia goes into this season – again- as SEC East favorites – simply because of the talent that the school is bringing back all over the field, but especially defensively, where some people have said that the Bulldogs could have one of the best Ds in the conference.
Having said that, Mark Richt has had disciplinary problem after disciplinary problem this year, and that might undermine is progress. Nevertheless, see what we think below...
LAST SEASON
The Georgia Bulldogs may have won the SEC East and gone 10-4 this year, but it’s not exactly blasphemy in the House of Dog to say
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 at 5:22 pm
In the days of Eli Manning it might have been a truism to talk about the Rebels and say: “Ole Miss by damn!”, but last season, there was only one ‘damn’ to describe this team: Damn awful.
But can they improve and at least break their SEC losing streak – and give hope to Rebels fans who haven’t had a decent team since 2009?
LAST SEASON
Ole Miss went 2-10 last year under Houston Nutt, who was summarily given his marching orders a month before the season ended - a move that sparked some outrage. And it was no bad thing. The Rebels didn’t lose many close heartbreakers – they
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 at 10:56 pm
A lot of people are very excited about the Vanderbilt Commodores this year. After all, they’ve been making a lot of noise on the recruiting front lately, and James Franklin put together a team that doesn’t just give up – hence why they lost four desperately close games (one in overtime), and this could be a season when Vandy puts together a winning regular season record for the first time in a decade. People are saying that they could upset South Carolina on the first game of the season...
Anyway...
LAST YEAR
Vanderbilt fans may have celebrated going bowling, but really, it could
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 at 12:04 am
Between Bobby Petrino and Houston Nutt, the Arkansas Razorbacks have put together winning seasons for seven years out of the last 10, including a pretty wonderful 11-2 run in 2011.
This year, many people are expecting nothing to change except the fact that Bobby Petrino’s out (penalized for his philandering ways), and beloved John L. Smith’s in with a 10-month contract. If Arkansas is half as a good as Smith is as a soundbite, they might make a run for the title!
In fact, the AP and USA Today like the Hogs so much that they have a Top 10 ranking to start the 2012 season. But can they
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Thursday, August 16th, 2012 at 12:06 am
Every year the SEC dominates other schools in bowl games (unless you're Michigan State, but less said about that the better) quite simply because they have the most difficult conference. EVERY game is a bowl game, a potential National Championship Game, or a big-time match-up. If you don't believe us, ask CBS why - every year without fail - they always screen Florida vs Tennessee, even though both sides weren't going to compete last year, and could possibly be put down as 'afterthoughts' for the last couple, at least.
Anyway, here's our Top 10 games (IN-CONFERENCE) on the SEC schedule. And
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