Okay recap... Bama... well, they still look unbeatable. Da Dawgs from Georgia... much improved, still can't stand dem dawgs. Florida... a little better but its looking like Georgia in the East Tennessee... decent first three quarters... there are 4 though. SC... ehhh Arkansas.... well... no comment MS State... almost loses to Troy? MS hammered by Texas... no surprise Auburn... Louisiana Monroe is a good team... but not that good. This just isn't Aubrun's year. With LSU next weekend, this will likely be brutal. Maybe they will call off the dogs at some point. In the West... what happened to USC? #2 Really? Maybe Stanford is just better and Andrew Luck wasn't the only star on last year's team. Okay what is the game to watch this week?
SEC has no real interesting matchups besides maybe Missouri at South Carolina. Michigan Notre Dame and Clemson Fla St should both be great match ups. Oklahoma will likely demolish K St as I expect Fla St to do to Clemson. I want to see if Arizona has a prayer of slowing down Oregon, and what Denard Robinson does against another quality opponent after his embarrassing start to the season. LSU Alabama again look to lead the pack for a BCS matchup, depending on how the night game in the Bayou shakes out in November. Fla St is still impressing me weekly, although they have essentially played Community Colleges to this point like LSU has.
LSU has another good practice opportunity this weekend in Auburn apparently. Auburn has too much talent to be this bad but as with fishing, every day can't be your best one. I have not seen FSU play this year, maybe I'll watch that one.
Exactly! Played well until 3 min left in the 3rd and then the wheels fell off. Can't win the big time games playing like that, oh well on to Akron and then UGA. Still 9 games left for the Vols.
The Big Ten already has zero undefeated contenders left, before conference play is even under way really. Go play in dirt.
Haha...classic response. I have never once said the Big Ten was any good. However, I'm told the SEC plays tough as balls games every week. Kind of like that one Alabama played this past Saturday.
Well... Let's recap... SEC teams against some non-SEC opponents again Auburn... finally won... in OT against the non-SEC team that beat Arkansas but lost to Bama by 52. Mississippi State almost lost to a Sun Belt team after beating Auburn last weekend. Mississippi lost to non-conference Texas by something like 35 points. Georgia blows out FAU... impressive! South Carolina blows out UAB... whooo! All in all there's Bama and LSU, maybe Georgia, barely maybe SC. I'm bored... Go... Rutgers!!!
Well sticking with solely the SEC. LSU Bama UGA and USCjr are all undefeated and all in the top 7 nationally. Miss St has struggled but remain unbeaten. Florida seems solid still and remain unbeaten, UTs sole loss is to number 14 Florida.....SEC competition. The SEC DOES play tougher schedules....when they play each other. This week offers few of those match ups, and even fewer interesting ones. UK at Florida, horrendous blow out. Mizzou at USCjr I said has a chance to be interesting LSU at Aubarn....again a blowout Vandy at UGA....good luck with that commodores. Only 4 SEC match ups this weekend, and 3 of which include arguably the 3 worst teams in the league for the year. Once conference play gets under way you may understand this a little better, or you may continue to nit pick the only conference in football worth a crap yet again this year. ACC is on the up and up and Pac 12 has been improving as well. Lets see where the dust settles at years end.
So more than half of the SEC schools are playing each other and there will probably be 3 blowouts, and possible 1 interesting game. Hmmm...doesn't sound like the super tough SEC schedule we hear about all the time. SEC best conference? By far. Tough conference games every week? Nope.
You certainly found an outlier, a week showcasing UK Vandy and Auburn all against top 15 opponents. From their own conference mind you. The grueling schedule doesn't effect the top tier teams like UGA Bama LSU...it is showcased by the average teams gettin pummeled.
UF looked good from the third quarter on against UT. That game went pretty much how a lot of Gator fans thought it would. Bray would throw it around the first half, UT wouldn't sustain a running game, Florida would pressure Bray, Bray would act like a little girl, and UF would win. UF still has a long way to go, but man are they a lot better than a year ago. The defense is looking better each game, Gillislee is all-SEC, the receivers are actually running after they catch it, and it's a lot of fun watching Driskel. By the time it's all said and done he'll be the next great Gator QB. His talent is obvious, and he's getting more and more comfortable each game. It's going to be a lot of fun watching him grow. After the last two games, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see UF represent the East in Atlanta.
Also - Philip, do UT fans even like Tyler Bray? I can't stand him. He's incredibly talented, but he whines and mopes around like a 6 year old who just got second place in a beauty contest the minute he gets hit or throws an INT. It's a shame too, because he's probably the best QB in the SEC.
My personal opinion is the kid has talent, however he has yet to prove he has it between the ears to be the leader of the football team. Like most other things with UT lately though the fan base is split. I'm reserving judgement about the Vols for the remainder of the season until they play another SEC team (UGA on 9/29). I wonder how much of the UF game was UT (of the last few years) and how much of it was just UT vs UF. I heard a stat on the radio where UF has won something like 20 of the last 24 meetings. That sounds like UF is in UT's head. Also UT's running game in the second half was abandoned by the OC. Nearly all of Neal's yards were in the first half and when they got down late in the 3rd Chaney kept dialing up throws instead of mixing in any runs which had worked in the first half to keep the D honest.
