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SEC 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

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Texas? 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

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

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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SEC Rankings: Texas A&M, LSU rising hard

As we thought would happen, we know the best team in the SEC: And it’s not Texas. Despite what the garbage-throwing, cowboy-hat-but-never-seen-a-cow-except-Bevo crowd might have thought, it would always going to be tough against this Georgia front, who ate Quin Ewers and Arch Manning alive. It made us think: Is the second-best team in the SEC not actually Texas, but one of their biggest rivals? Anyhoo…. Georgia (6-1): Utterly dominant at Texas (defensively), but on the offensive side, Travis Etienne bailed out Carson Beck, who was simply awful in Austin. And that balance will be just fine. Texas A&M (6-1): Finishing drives, defensively very solid…or just plain good? Conor Weigman seems to have found his feet (finally), and Le’Veon Moss

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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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Texas is on top, but Vandy continues to rise

1. Texas (6-0): The Texas – Oklahoma game was ESPN’s showpiece game this week, and it wasn’t close. Texas wasn’t good in the first half of the game, but they got better as the time went on and eviscerated a hapless Sooners team. As much fun as I’ve made of them, this team is great all over the park. The big test will next week against some team called Georgia. 2. Texas A&M (5-1): Smashed Bye Week into the ground, but reason they’ve vaulted Georgia is the evidence of the week before, when there was no playing with their food against Missouri. 3. Georgia (5-1): Don’t imprison Kirby Smart for pushing that Mississippi State player, get him investigated by the

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Week 7: Red River Time!

No.1 Texas (-14.5) v No.18 Oklahoma (Dallas): Texas is really talented, while Oklahoma will be the best defense they’ve faced so far this season. We will see how Texas’ running game does against a tight front that is Oklahoma’s. But Oklahoma will also be tested by the best QB they have this year in Quin Ewers, who’s going to start on Saturday after weeks out with injury. But Texas will probably cruise before OU’s offense is utterly vomitous- now not helped by the fact that it’s top WR Deion Burks is out for the game, on top of the other four on the trainer’s table.. Texas might be closed down by OU’s punter a little, therefore reducing the chances of

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WEEK 6: SEC RANKINGS ARE ALL ****ED UP

I joked on Saturday night that my SEC rankings were this: 1-15: F**k knows 16: Mississippi State. And that’s probably right. Texas is the No.1 team in the nation and – by virtue of not playing while the unbridled carnage was happening around – would go as No.1 in my view. But are they really better than Georgia? Does Vanderbilt’s win over Alabama automatically mean that they are better than Alabama? Or Arkansas’ win over Tennessee mean that Sam Pittman’s team is better than the Vols? If you believe those guys at the AP Poll – who have Texas first, Georgia fifth (behind Ohio State, Oregon and Penn State), Miami sixth and Alabama seventh. Tennessee is 8th, Ole Miss 9th, LSU 13th,

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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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