Tag: SEC East

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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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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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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WEEK 2 SEC Predictions: Can Texas beat Michigan?

When a National title pretender goes to last year’s National Championship winner — and it’s two of the biggest name’s in college football – everyone’s gonna be pretty excited. College Gameday AND Fox’s Preview Show are going to be at Texas v Michigan. The place is obviously sold-out. It’s a massive test of where both teams are. Elsewhere in the SEC, it’s going to be a fun game between ranked NC State and Tennessee,  No.16 Oklahoma State visiting Arkansas, and the first SEC Conference match-up between South Carolina and Kentucky. And there’s also the match-up between Mississippi State and Arizona State which will be a riveting indication of wonderful football. So here we go (in terms of games weren’t interested

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SEC Week 1 Round-up: Vanderbilt and Georgia impress, Florida does not, dross in the middle

The SEC was involved in four major match-ups with weekend, with Georgia playing Clemson, LSU playing Southern Cal (USC), Texas A&M at home to Notre Dame, and Florida hosting Miami. Oh, and Vanderbilt played the other game FBS game SEC schools were involved in, battling out with Virginia Tech. It was hard not to be impressed with Georgia’s kerb-stomping of Clemson. But LSU losing a neutral site game to USC was OK. We’re a lot happier with the state of the Tigers than we are with Texas A&M’s offense loss to higher-ranked Notre Dame or almost everything that was the Florida Gators. But Vanderbilt? Jeez. The Commodores were 13 1/2 point underdogs. But they won. Even after blowing a 17

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The King is dead: Who’s gonna be the King?

Nick Saban is gone. No, not ‘gone gone’, but just retired. But it felt like a death. Especially in Tuscaloosa where they laid cokes and biscuits at the foot of their saviour’s statue (but not at Auburn, where trees were toilet-papered in celebration). So who’s going to come on board? Here are your runners and riders (in our opinion) THE FAVORITES Dan Lanning (Oregon): Oregon head coach. Brilliant DC at Georgia, which meant that he’s good at recruiting in the SEC. Young, fresh-faced, and has the Sabanesque qualities of extreme focus and being a damn good recruiter. Lane Kiffin (Ole Miss): Been there before in terms of working in Tuscaloosa, and is pretty well-liked in those parts. Even though he’s

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A very quick SEC Bowl Preview

It’s Christmas-time. You and I have a ton of stuff to do, so here are my one-paragrah takes on the non-play-off bowl games, in order of our interest.   Dec 29: COTTON BOWL (DALLAS) – Missouri (-1) v Ohio State (JerryWorld): Ohio State is going to be missing starting QB Kyle McCord (transfer portal), WR Julian Fleming (Portal), and one of its best RBs in Miyan Williams (NFL) Ryan Day has said that WR extraordinaire Marvin Harrison Jr, RB TreVeyon Henderson, TE Cade Stover, DE J.T. Tuimoloau and a number of other defensive players have been practicising and haven’t made their decision on whether to go pro or not. WR Emeka Egbuka has opted in as well as some other draft-eligible

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SEC SCHEDULE FOR 2024 RELEASED

The SEC released their new, Texas and OU-expanded schedule. There are a lot of interesting games, and a lot of dullards. A lot of SEC fans have talked about Texas v Oklahoma being an exiting game because it’s now a S-E-C game, but if you weren’t excited about that match-up every year anyway, then you’re probably ignorant. The great thing about this schedule is that there are some cracker non-conference match-ups, including Texas going to Michigan, Florida v Miami, LSU v USC, Georgia v Clemson and Alabama’s trip to Wisconsin, as well as and an underrated monster in Arkansas going to Oklahoma State. There are a lot of non-conference match-ups we hate that the SEC produces every week, but in

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Quick bowl reaction: Bama in, FSU/ Georgia out

After they beat Georgia in the National Championship Game and Florida State’s offense looked so ragged against Louisville, it seemed inevitable that Alabama was going to be the final team into the College Football Play-Off. They will play No.1 Michigan, while No.2 Washington and No.3 Texas face off in the other one. Georgia fans could moan about not being one of the best teams in, but they sank themselves by back-to-back not-great performances against Georgia Tech and Alabama respectively. In the end, they ended up No.6 in the nation, and will face Florida State in the Orange Bowl – something we suspect won’t have a lot of weight if you consider the amount of players who won’t play. But the bottom

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SEC END OF SEASON AWARDS

It’s award season, so we want to throw around some awards ourselves, before those Heisman people get in our way and make us look bad. So here we go. Some of them for the best….some of them for the worst. Thanks for a wonderful season. FEEL FREE TO TELL US WHERE WE WERE WRONG! SEC HEISMAN Jayden Daniels (LSU): Daniels hardly put a foot wrong this season, throwing for 3,800 yards and 40 TDs and rushing for 1,100 yards more and 10 more. He’s on the real Heisman favorite, too. Nominated: Cody Schrader (Missouri), Jaxson Dart (Ole Miss) Jayden Daniels won the Heisman. SEC RUSHER OF THE YEAR Cody Schrader (Missouri): Ran for 1,499 yards and 13 yards in the

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