Sagarin’s computer is on drugs.

And I’ll have whatever it’s smoking.

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Paranoia strikes deep.

‘Bama, you give up 647 yards (7.52 ypp) of offense, there’s gotta be a reason, right?

Alabama LB Dylan Moses said he “definitely” thinks Ole Miss had Alabama’s signals on defense, pointing to Lane Kiffin’s time in Tuscaloosa.

— Alex Scarborough (@AlexS_ESPN) October 11, 2020

Well, sure, that makes complete sense.  Except for the fact that Junior’s been gone from Tuscaloosa for four years and the idea that the coach you play for, college football’s most detail-oriented, anal man, neglected to do something obvious like change signals after the departure of a coordinator is beyond far-fetched.

You know who else is a coordinator who left Alabama a few years ago to become a head coach, Dylan?  I hope your teammates worry about signals this week more than fundamentals like tackling.

This week, in smug

Judging by this…

That one is mercifully over — the one game and one team on the regular season schedule that has scared me for months (and I honestly think that was Alabama’s biggest threat, for a whole lot of reasons.)

Time for gif reactions. Go.

— Roll ‘Bama Roll (@rollbamaroll) October 11, 2020

and this…

• I’m still not convinced that Georgia is very good overall. Very good lines? Absolutely. Great team speed on defense? You bet. Great at capitalizing on mistakes? Amen. But a good team? I’m kinda’ iffy on that proposition. We’ll see how good this week when the Dawgs play the first offense with a pulse they’ve seen all season.

… Roll Bama Roll is gonna be a real treat to read over the next few days.

TFW even you realize you’re overpaid

#LSU defensive coordinator Bo Pelini leaves the field after the #Tigers' loss to #Missouri this afternoon. #Mizzou won 45-41. pic.twitter.com/JwrlYgCcDj

— Hilary Scheinuk (@hscheinukphoto) October 10, 2020

Missouri passer ratings, 2020 game log:

• Alabama:  129.62
• Tennessee:  121.25
• LSU:  218.02

Who’da thunk Joe Burrow wouldn’t be the person LSU football would miss the most this season?

Not the SEC you were expecting

Shot.

Georgia has beaten Auburn and Tennessee in back-to-back weeks. Don't think that has happened before. But I know we'll never see a Georgia team hold the Tigers and Vols to a combined 38 yards on 49 carries. That's less than 1 yard per attempt. Just mind-boggling in the SEC.

— Jeff Sentell (@jeffsentell) October 11, 2020

Chaser.

After 21 #SEC Games so far this year, offense is way up. The average game has 8.4 more points and 66 more yards per game.

Below is a breakdown since 2005 and how it has been trending. pic.twitter.com/M900c7voHg

— SportSource Analytics (@SportSourceA) October 11, 2020

Needless to say, this is not your father’s SEC.  A quick check of national stats shows half the conference is 44th or worse in defensive scoring (Oklahoma is 41st) and half are outside the top fifty in defensive yards per play.

Alabama is in both groups.  So is LSU.

In other words, what Smart and Lanning have done so far is truly remarkable.

Swing your sword

Yar, baby.

Mike Leach hints that he may have to "purge" some players from the team. Ones he thinks aren't fitting in with what he's trying to do.

"We're going to have to check our group and see who really wants to play here."

— Tyler Horka (@tbhorka) October 11, 2020

That sounds… unpleasant.

Name that caption, wide-eyed edition

Someone is in a state of disbelief.

Five takeaways from UGA football’s 44-21 victory against Tennessee https://t.co/KtIip1XSsv pic.twitter.com/xSu6HEyRG3

— Marc Weiszer (@marcweiszer) October 10, 2020

Have at it in the comments.

TFW you’re happy with the ending

Think Stetson’s having fun out there?

Stetson Bennett: "I think we covered tonight, so that's good."

— Seth Emerson (@SethWEmerson) October 10, 2020

One day, this kid will be making casino promos.

The Pit Boss gets hosed.

So, this happened.

I don’t feel as bad after watching the replay. The ref’s error was in blowing the whistle too early. Without the whistle, Shedrick Jackson was in perfect position to pick up the fumble. pic.twitter.com/Ne2gsRifwj

— Mark P (@TheAuburner) October 11, 2020

Bo Nix, panicked after a botched snap, clearly throws the spike backwards, which makes it a fumble.

The problem for Arkansas was Nix wasn’t the only one who screwed up on the play.

Statement on play at :30 to go in fourth quarter of Arkansas-Auburn game. pic.twitter.com/L1UQRlFx2M

— SEC Officiating (@SECOfficiating) October 11, 2020

Tl;dr version:  sorry, we screwed up, bye!

It never ceases to amaze me how a football league awash in revenue won’t make the effort to provide competent officiating.

Swamp packin’

So, the Portal Master™, fresh off a loss to Texas A&M that he blames on crowd noise instead of a defense that couldn’t get off the field on third down (opposing offenses are converting third downs at almost a 60% clip), proposes a solution to the problem.

“I know our governor passed that rule, so certainly, hopefully the university administration decides to let us pack the Swamp against LSU … 100 percent, because that crowd was a major factor in the game,” Mullen said. “So I certainly hope our university administration follows the governor. The governor has passed a rule that we’re allowed to pack the Swamp and have 90,000 in the Swamp to give us the home-field advantage Texas A&M had today.”

The fans on Saturday seemed strategically placed

“Absolutely want to see 90,000 in The Swamp. There were. … I don’t think the section behind our bench, I didn’t see an empty seat,” Mullen said. “It was packed. The student section, there must have been 50,000 behind our bench going crazy. Hopefully, that creates a home-field advantage for us next week because now we passed a law in our state that we can do that. We want our students out there cheering us on to give us that home-field advantage.”

I dunno.  That seems awfully risky to me.  Does Florida really want to expose that many people to the effects of third-and-Grantham?