I could sit here and give you a long news article about Steve Spurrier and what he said about South Carolina football - "We've got a good team at South Carolina ready to go this year. We had a little bit of a struggle in the middle of last season" - but that's not why we look out for what the Head Ball Coach says at SEC Media Days. It's the zingers. So here's a collection of them: INTRODUCTION SPEECH "A lot of familiar faces out there after a lot of years coming to this event. I figured a bunch of you guys would have retired by now." "We believe we have a fighting chance to do that. Read more [...]

To celebrate Gator Day with the Florida Gators Alumni Association (OK, this writer didn't attend the University of Florida, but we thought it might be fun, anyhow), we're putting out 10 of the most famous Florida Gators. Now, you might say that Aaron Hernandez is one of the most famous Florida Gators in history thanks to his murder trial, but we're thinking ON the field (and maybe one off it), rather than OFF it. And by the way, Jeff Driskel's not making the list. Sorry, Driskelians.   1. Tim Tebow (QB) Won a Heisman Trophy, two National Championships, two SEC Championships, and Read more [...]

South Carolina is to have two defensive co-ordinators for the team next year, reports say. John Hoke, who comes from the NFL and has most recently been with Chicago, will come on board to coach USC's passing defense, and current DC Lorenzo Ward will coach the Gamecocks rushing defense. Ward worked for Steve Spurrier at Florida between 1999-2001, the report from GoGamecocks.com says. The decision comes as a little bit of a break for Ward, who was in charge of a USC defense that gave up 30.4 points-per-game last year, "good" for 91st in the country. A lot of people felt that Ward would Read more [...]

Unsurprisingly, Alabama head coach Nick Saban is the top-ranked coach in college football, USA Today has reported. Despite a season where he didn't win his bowl game and lost to Auburn, Saban - who's Crimson Tide team is now the top-ranked team in the nation - still earned $7.1m in total pay in 2013 - including a base salary of $6.9m. Texas A&M's Kevin Sumlin was the second-most paid in the SEC and the fourth-best coach in college football, pulling in $5m in base salary, and $5.006m total. LSU's Les Miles earned $4.3m ($4.369m total), and South Carolina's Steve Spurrier earned $4m ($4.016m Read more [...]

We'll be honest. This SEC schedule on paper looked pretty strong when the season started, but right now, it's actually pretty week. Look, we get that the match-up Texas A&M and a suddenly-reborn Arkansas in JerryWorld is pretty cool. South Carolina's got College Gameday coming to its doors for the visit of Maty Mauk and Missouri, and if Tennessee trip to Georgia's as good as it was last season, the game's going to be a treat. But otherwise? Kentucky's actually got a GOOD CHANCE to get its first SEC victory, when it hosts Vanderbilt. Could be your sleeper SEC game of the week. Anyway, here Read more [...]

This college football season's been nuts so far. But there's nuts, and then there's SEC nuts. There's a shifting of power in the SEC. Teams that spent time in the shadows are back up, and punching giants in the mouth. It's fun. It's really fun. Unless you're from Baton Rouge. Or Columbia, Missouri. Anyway, here's our SEC rankings (more important than the overall college football rankings). Here we reward strength-of-schedule over record, so if your team has moved down a bit, then that's why. Oh, and while we're here we'd like to note that we watched a crapload of football yesterday. It wasn't Read more [...]

'Twas a hell of a night in the SEC. South Carolina avoided getting hit by lightning to score a 3-point win over Georgia, Florida squeaked by Kentucky in THREE overtimes, and Arkansas ripped out a monster away victory at Texas Tech (giggles). Tennessee played valiantly at Oklahoma but were predictably outclassed, but there are green shoots. Oh, and Vanderbilt. Dear. God. Anyway, here are our Week 3 Power Rankings for the SEC: 1. Texas A&M: We're not sure how anyone can deal with Kevin Sumlin's offense, for whom 38 points looked like a bad day on Saturday. And the defense showed some improvement Read more [...]

Despite all the talk that comes out of Steve Spurrier's mouth, there one thing that's for certain about his South Carolina Gamecocks: They've never won a SEC title under him. Sure, they went there in 2010. But they lost, and despite Spurrier's annoyance at the schedule, they haven't been back since.  But this year the Gamecocks are favored for the SEC East. Can they make it? LAST YEAR Despite the excellence of QB Connor Shaw and RB Mike Davis, the whole of the 2013 season was really about one player: Jadeveon Clowney. If there was another player in the game who's name wasn't Johnny Manziel Read more [...]

Now the SEC Media Days are in the book, we're giving 14 awards to our head coaches' press conferences. Our award for "Most God-Like" is easy, though. It's to Commissioner Mike Slive, because he's God, Ali and The President and you aren't. So without further ado: STRANGEST PRESS CONFERENCE: Les Miles (LSU) - I mean, who in the hell goes on vacation in Austin, talks about the weather a lot, then declines to mention anything about the strangest thing that happened to him in all of 2013 - the fact that he let his team vote on whether to keep a running back who punched somebody, instead of Read more [...]

Mark Richt is used to criticism as head coach of the University of Georgia. Every year people place him on the hot-seat for either not beating South Carolina, or not beating Auburn, or losing a game they should win, or not beating a team by enough, and 2015 won't be any different - although after beating Clemson and LSU, maybe the seat's a LITTLE cooler. Richt's also had his fair share of criticism about Georgia's drug policy, which has seen the school suspend or boot a number of players over his time between the hedges. However, at the SEC Media Days in Hoover, AL, he was unrepentant. He Read more [...]