Now that the SEC schedule for 2013's arrived, Christmas has descended early on the Southland and now we're virtually ignoring what is still a gangbusters 2012 for the conference. Alabama and Florida were named your BCS No. 1 and No.2 - although that won't be the National Championship Game unless all hell breaks loose on the schedule. Anyway, here are our predictions for this week. And the soundtrack? We're going with the Drive By Truckers' 'Kings Of The South', from their incredible album 'Southern Rock Opera'. It's a beautiful thing.... So here we go.... SOUTH CAROLINA AT FLORIDA If Read more [...]

It's Christmas come early for SEC fans. The 2013's schedule is out! Aug. 31 Ole Miss at Vanderbilt   Sept. 7 South Carolina at Georgia   Sept. 14 Alabama at Texas A&M Mississippi State at Auburn Vanderbilt at South Carolina   Sept. 21 Auburn at LSU Tennessee at Florida   Sept. 28 Ole Miss at Alabama Texas A&M at Arkansas Florida at Kentucky LSU at Georgia   Oct. 5 Arkansas at Florida Ole Miss at Auburn Georgia at Tennessee Kentucky at South Carolina LSU at Mississippi State Missouri Read more [...]

Right, it's been a mad week in College Football - so much so that we're going to rank our Top 14 straight away. Without further ado, here's where we are: 1) Alabama - Rolled to a 28-point lead over Missouri until the rains came. Then looked really scrappy, but the Tide dealt with the tests. And news just in: Eddie Lacy's a beast. And so is that defensive line. 2) Florida - It wasn't pretty against Vanderbilt, but it was effective. Jeff Driskell's beginning to (whisper) remind people of (whisper) Tim Tebow. Oh, and that defense is as good as we thought they were. We'll see how good the Read more [...]

If there's a pot, Steve Spurrier will be there to stir it. This week, Steve Spurrier hammered Georgia (both with mouth and with team), and hammered Clemson ("My boys haven't been to Death Valley before", he opined on the radio). This week, he's going to hell. Quite possibly to prepare him for the afterlife, Clemson fans might say. Anyways, here's an excerpt from a poem that our boy Alfred, Lord Tennyson prepared for South Carolina's trip to Death Valley, Baton Rouge: "Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Read more [...]

Regardless of how the SEC is standing this year, Saturday is 'Moving Day' In the SEC, where we'll see actually how good the four of the top five SEC teams are....when they play each other. The CBS game - which must infuriate all fans looking for the all-day Gator get-together/bender in Gainseville, is showing Florida entertaining LSU, while on Saturday night Georgia visits South Carolina and their Dawg Nation's vaunted enemy, Steve Spurrier. It's going to be a great weekend, folks.......let's enjoy the ride. LSU vs Florida This game always stands out on the calendar, and many can see Read more [...]

This blog site's SEC ranking ain't gonna change the world. But they are a lot of fun to do - and we'll supply reasons, too! Anyway, here's our 1-14. There are some changes, but Lord knows how many. The soundtrack is Kid Rock's "Only God Knows Why". 1) Alabama - Only God Knows Why this team is so, so good. Is it Saban? Is it luck? Is it the coaching staff in its entireity? Is it team spirit? 2) South Carolina - Because Only God Knows Why this team was so awful in the first half on Saturday against Kentucky, and so great in the second. 3) Georgia - Only God Knows if the Dawgs are Read more [...]

Everyone talked before this week started that Week 5 was going to be one of the duller on College Football's calendar - and maybe in college football's history (ESPN love to do overdo it, don't they?). Many felt that College Gameday SHOULD have gone down South to Texas at Oklahoma State or Baylor at West Virginia, but instead went to Ohio State at Michigan State. Or to Sanford Stadium for the Tennesee - Georgia game. But they whiffed. Instead they chose an out-an-out war between OSU and MSU, worthy of the 'old days' of college football where we loved brawn and battle, while all the three other Read more [...]

Now that Arkansas has dived so downwards, there is no argument about what is the biggest game in the SEC this week: Tennessee's trip to Georgia. The last time people were this psyched up for a Tennessee game was a couple of weeks ago. The fans were wearing orange. They weren't too happy about the Florida result (but then again, they haven't been happy about that for years!!). But Mark Richt's appealing to Sanford to 'be loud' and wear red. Without being rude, Mark, but isn't that what Georgia fans tend to wear for games anyway? Our sympathies of the week go to the Georgia student who bought Read more [...]

For the sporting man like us, there's always someone you love and someone you hate. For the SEC fan, the someone we love is our SEC team and the one we hate is their biggest rival. See Auburn and Alabama for example. Now, the madness that is the conference realignment has meant that one of college football's best rivalry games - Notre Dame and Michigan - dies after 2014, going the way of West Virginia and Pittsburgh, and the One We Pray Will Get Resurrected, The Texas A&M- Texas game. Yes, we know that A&M are in the SEC now, but if Georgia can manage to play Georgia Tech, Florida can Read more [...]

We admit it: We at the SEC Football Blog should have done more with our SEC Power Rankings (ie start in the first week), but there's been very little on offer until now, and now we know a bit, we think we can provide some analysis to go with our picks. The soundtrack for today's picks is Brad Paisley's 'Old Alabama', because right now, Nick Saban's the new Bear Bryant. 1. Alabama (4-0): The Crimson Tide have rolled everyone they have played against. No team has looked this complete this early. Sure, there are big tests to come (read: LSU on the road on Nov. 3rd), but Nick Saban is the best Read more [...]