Tag: recruiting

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 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 2 SEC Prediction: It’s Oklahoma – Michigan Day!

A battle between Oklahoma and Michigan is a reason why we love college football. Both are storied programs, with multiple Heismans and massive fanbases. The last they played each other was in 1975, which led to Oklahoma winning a Natty. Norman is going to be rocking. Anyway, here’s our (brief) preview of the game, as well as a bunch of SEC games (in order of interest) – including the first conference game of the year between Ole Miss and Kentucky.  No.15 Michigan and No.18 Oklahoma (-5): We know little about both of these sides, apart from that there are worries about the lines on both sides – especially as Michigan five star frosh offensive lineman Andrew Babalola is done for

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It’s been a long time….

Hey all, It’s been way too long. I haven’t written because college football has been way, way too frustrating at the moment. The NIL disease that rampaged through the college basketball arena has hit college football even worse. I don’t know who’s going to play for whom after one year, because loyalty isn’t earned, it’s by checkbook. I know where this is going. It won’t just be the guys fuming at the WR who they gave $50,000 to in a brown bag in the local Buc-ees, it’ll be thousands of people fuming at the WR who cost the group $3 million to go from Miami to Texas. I know where this is going, because the transfer portal has already given

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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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Week 4 Preview: Tennessee and Oklahoma in the ‘Stoops Bowl’!

If Tennessee and Oklahoma are playing the ‘Heupel Bowl’ on Saturday, then Florida and Mississippi State are playing “Horses**t Bowl” in Starkville. There’s also Arkansas and Auburn in the latest referendum on Sam Pittman’s job, Vanderbilt at Missouri, Ohio at Kentucky, Bowling Green at Texas A&M, Akron at South Carolina, Ole Miss’ latest joke of a home game when they play Georgia Southern, and who could forget Texas and Louisiana-Monroe? Oh, and there’s the LSU v UCLA game, which would have been a lot of fun two years ago. This year’s probably going to be a massacre. Anywhere, here are our Week 4 Preview, which are once again in order of games we’ll be caring about:   No.6 Tennessee (-6.5)

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Week 4 SEC Rankings: Manning makes Texas roll, Georgia struggles

Here 1. Texas (3-0): DID YOU HEAR THAT ARCH MANNING TOOK OVER QUIN EWERS AGAINST UTSA AND HAD A PRETTY GREAT GAME? DID YOU?! DID YOU?!Anyway, the Longhorns didn’t miss a beat with Ewers leaving, and they won’t have to worry until Oklahoma the week after next.  2. Georgia (3-0): The Bulldogs may have been incredibly unimpressive in their 13-12 win over Kentucky on Saturday night, but there are the only team in the SEC to have beaten two FBS teams – including a SEC one on the road. 3. Tennessee (3-0): The Vols have been beating down teams at breakneck speed. We anticipated NC State would be test, and they won’t. Maybe Oklahoma’s defense will do something to stop

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