Another wacky week in America’s favorite conference…
- Georgia. In conference play, the Dawgs are outscoring the opposition by 27 points a game.
- Tennessee. I haz a question.
- LSU. I can’t say Harold Perkins Jr. is the best defensive player in the SEC, but he’s already on the shortlist.
- Alabama. Give ’em credit — the Tide went on the road with nothing to play for but pride and did just that.
- Ole Miss. Sometimes you eat the fourth down conversions, and sometimes the fourth down conversions eat you.
- Florida. Since the dismissal of Brenton Cox, the Gators have notched two conference wins and are playing some of their best ball of the season. Addition by subtraction, for the win!
- Mississippi State. We’re getting into the “meh, somebody’s gotta go here” part of the rankings.
- Arkansas. It’s going to be a disappointing year for the Hogs, but they fought hard against LSU despite having a bunch of players out.
- South Carolina. Losing three fumbles in four snaps generally isn’t going to result in winning football.
- Kentucky. The Will Levis Experience is ending with a whimper, not a bang.
- Auburn. The joy on display after the win was so real that I can’t bring myself to mock it. I’m getting soft in my old age, I guess.
- Missouri. Drinkwitz gets a $2 million a year raise to totally botch clock management at the end of the first half? America, what a country!
- Vanderbilt. They blew the Admiral.
- Texas A&M. TAMU isn’t going bowling this season, but UConn is.
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Brenton Cox was a decent enough player that he must have been a seriously toxic mfer in the locker room to get dismissed like that.
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I’m sure he’ll end up a 1st round pick after he tweets @ a few NFL teams how good he really is.
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on draft day he is going to point to the team he wants to join
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I figured Florida’s defense would fail apart without Brenton Cox around to point out which player to tackle.
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I have an acquaintance who was on the team, cox was a huuuuuuge cancer
Also not surprisingly he described Lorenzo carter, roquan, Chubb and Sony as nfl players who happened to play for a college team in terms of demeanor, work ethic and preparation. Also apparently every one really good guys as well.
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Find someone who loves you as much as Cadillac Williams loves a win over a 3-6 A&M team that has completely checked out for the year.
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I’m small and petty, so I’ll mock them.
They have an alum as interim (not the first time in the conference) who is also the first African-American head coach at the school (also, not the first time in the conference), and they were celebrating a win over A&M, who may be the first team in the conference this season to give up on their coach.
I seem to remember Bryan McClendon coming in as interim and winning a bowl game, and the national narrative wasn’t NEARLY as joyful as it is for Auburn, who is only in this position because of multiple bad hires and a dysfunctional system.
It’s really like the parents of a team in a tee ball league cheering because their guys beat the worst tee ball team in the league, you know?
So, I’ll mock them. I really don’t like those guys.
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But they like driving their trucks…
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I don’t care who their coach is Auburn suxs.
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Every Barner down in Barnville, the tall and the small, was singing without any bowl season at all.
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I think the narrative surrounding UGA in 2015 wasn’t as positive because we’d gone 9–3 and fired our coach anyway (a coach with a .740 win % at that). Granted, we had our reasons for wanting to move on from Richt, but there seemed to be this national perception that we were spoiled, and McGarity’s clumsy handling of the firing didn’t help.
Yeah, Auburn’s dug their own hole, but I can’t help but be a little happy for the team—Cadillac seems to have really fired up a group of players Harsin totally checked out on. That said, I’ll be right there with popcorn at the ready when AU’s chowderhead boosters inevitable eff up the search for a permanent coach.
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Cadillac has always been a class act and was probably the best running back in the nation during his playing days. He loves his school and he loves his players. I’m happy for him and I will be pulling for him to come out on top in the Iron Bowl. That would be comedy gold to see all the Bammers’ heads explode.
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Fortunately for AU the other best RB in the nation was right beside him in the backfield.
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fuck the barn
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I mocked Auburn’s joy because in the end they were really just celebrating not being Vanderbilt.
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Be interesting to see if Brenton Cox even gets drafted. Does any GM take a flier on him? What a waste of raw physical ability. Sad.
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He may end up like Vontaze Burfict, who was a 1st round talent, but who’s numb-nuttedness on and off the field made him a UFA.
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I’d move Tennessee down a bit. Maybe to fourth.
They were lucky as hell to catch LSU as a still stumbling toddler of a football team.
Every star in the universe had to align for them to have Bama implode the way it did. If they played ten times on a neutral field, Bama would win ten times.
Their big ass scores are largely because Heupel is a style point believer. (He’s going to point to the way Georgia struggled with Mizzo, but by golly TN beat the brakes off of Missouri)
Whereas Kirby runs the clock out, Heupel uses his time-outs to further humiliate
beaten opponent.
1 Dawgs,
2 LSU,
3 Bama
4 O’Ms
5 Hillbillies.
Tennessee is rising fast on my hate list.
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Fifth. I dropped TN to fifth.
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I would like to see UT v OM for the 4th spot. I think your list is spot on if we were seeding for a SEC only playoff. Tigahs and Bama win the rematch. I don’t trust Kiffen to learn from others enough to know if he could beat them.
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20 years ago, when they were riding high they were pretty unbearable. Except for the 2016 Hail Mary they haven’t had much to yap about. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team get dominated like we dominated them that immediately started yapping about it being 0roof they were the better team. FTMF.
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Top 5 from I-20, west bound & down;
1) DAWGS — there is no finer in the land. Side note – DAWG nation travels man!!
2) Vols — tight early, turned it on Q3. Will skate to 11-1.
3) LSU — ugly game for J Daniels, 8-15, 86 yds 1 int. Even my faithful LSU friends know an ass whipping cometh Dec 3.
4) Bama —- shoulda/coulda been loss 5…..wow.
5) Ole Miss — going to be a tough out come bowl season.
Honorable mention —- Clay Travis 10-3 ATS this week.
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Mizzou and Texas A&M. After 10 years in the conference of champions now, what huge strides they’ve made
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Texas and OU really look prepared for what’s coming. Talk about blowing off your summer reading assignments!
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Tell me timing isn’t everything and Jimmy Sexton is damn near a genius…signing that little Drink to a contract extension and 2M per year raise right before 10RC shellacs you…we are living in strange times my friends
If his contract was negotiated this week…completely different story…could be having the AD full confidence speak
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Just a reminder that Cadillac ran for 167 yards and 2 td’s in 2001 for a win against us, then over 100 and another td for a win in 2004.
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Do NOT get caught up in that “We be Fambly” war buzzard hype. F auburrn to the hell they deserve now and forever until the meteorite that misses Gainesville finds it’s rightful target on the plains of Alabama where no one will miss anything it destroys and the remaining faithful can toss toilet paper over the crater.
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I salute your creative use of the English language to deliver a great barb against Auburn–even if I was a bit happy for Cadillac on Saturday night.
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Kentucky has really fallen apart this season. Shockingly so based on preseason expectations. Missing Rodriguez early didn’t help. But Mr. First Rounder Will Levis is Jake Locker 2.0. Some NFL execs will believe that they are smart enough to get Levis right with all the measurables and high ceiling. I watch him and see him being another Locker that washes out of the NFL. In college most of the QB’s reads are pre-snap. In the NFL everything happens post-snap because the defenses are so complex and well disguised. Levis in my opinion is going to get chewed up on Sundays. Measurables are great, ceiling is very high, but when you are making boneheaded decisions time and time again and not valuing the football on Saturdays it is hard to imagine it getting better on Sundays.
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The only thing missing during Cadillac’s post game interview was the Wish Upon A Star music and a declaration of going to DisneyWorld. That shit was surreal.
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I was bout drunk and couldn’t understand what he said. After I sobered up, I watched and listened closely to what he said and still couldn’t understand much. But he was sincere, that I could understand.
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Amazing we are on a pretty good run since dismissing Cox too!
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