Biff Tannen

They scored 4 touchdowns to 1 field goal against Auburn. They scored 5 touchdowns on 5 scoring drives against Alabama. I think they need to be more aggressive down the field early in games (and they were against Alabama), and I'm baffled by their inability to get much going in the running game even when teams aren't overplaying the run. On the other hand, Auburn is not a bad team when they don't turn the ball over, and Georgia handled them pretty easily despite some questionable officiating.

Tennessee hasn't even played a competitive game against Georgia since Smart's first season, which was 8 years ago. The average margin of victory in the last seven games is 27 points.

If they roll Boston College I'll believe they're very good. At this point, they've played a bad FCS school and a Buffalo team coming off a 3-9 season where they were 111th in scoring.

It doesn't really matter, since it'll sort itself out of the course of the season, but the argument for Texas or Georgia right now comes down to how good one thinks Michigan and Clemson are. Personally, I thought Michigan would be fairly mediocre coming into the season and Clemson would be pretty good but not good enough to play with Georgia. I haven't seen anything to suggest otherwise so far.

In defense of Vandagriff, if you only have five clean drop backs out of 18 or whatever, you start to see ghosts. I was skeptical of his being anything more than a pretty good all around QB, but with that kind of protection, the best QB wouldn't have looked any better than serviceable.

Was it his fault they left a receiver with a bum shoulder on the field and then threw him a fifty-fifty for the game sealing INT?

Freeze is the head coach and responsible for the overall performance of the team. If they suck, it's ultimately his fault.

Clemson is almost certainly better than this edition of Michigan.

It was a nice road win for Texas, but Michigan's offense is terrible. All of the talent and coaching departures have left them a shell of the teams they fielded the last few seasons. Based on what I've seen the first two weeks, I won't be surprised if they go 7-5.

Virginia Tech is certainly no match for the likes of UT-Chattanooga.

His last season wasn't even that good. These were his teams' average points per game throughout his South Carolina tenure: 2005: 23.7 2006: 26.6 2007: 26.1 2008: 20.8 2009: 20.6 2010: 30.9 2011: 30.1 2012: 31.5 2013: 34.1 2014: 32.6 2015: 21.9 Fun fact: His 2008 team never managed to score 35 points in a game.

Georgia had a top 5 offense last year, and they'll end up with the same this year. I do think he was too slow to adjust the plan against Alabama in the SEC Championship Game last year, so there's that.

Florida losing to Miami isn't a big deal in itself. I figured it for a tossup. Getting beat like a drum at home and looking worse in almost every aspect than last year is the problem.

It's "drivel."

That's an insult to Mark Richt, who won two SEC titles in his first five seasons and had one losing season out of 15. Georgia never looked as poorly coached under Richt as Florida has under Napier.

I've never seen so much pearl clutching about 20-year-olds speeding. I get that the accident a couple of years ago was a tragedy, but the overblown reaction to traffic violations is crazy. For the ones racing, that's another story, and one was dismissed from the team for it.

Clemson is pretty good, and they probably will make the playoff as the ACC champion. They aren't good enough on either side of the ball to keep it within 2 TDs against Georgia, though. I expect Georgia to extend the lead in the third quarter and win by 20 - 24. I actually think a complete domination, like 45-10, by Georgia is more likely than a close game.

He's a very good runner, throws a nice deep ball and doesn't put the ball in harms way very often. He struggles on intermediate throws, though, and he tends to hold the ball too long. I also have no idea how he'll do in a much more pass heavy offense (assuming they do the same stuff Washington did). I don't know if I'd rank him ahead of the two behind him, but they have their own flaws.

Wow. I tend to think Cook is overrated by many, but I wouldn't go this far. Most college QBs aren't very good, and he has become a competent passer with enough running ability to be dangerous. I don't think he's an NFL prospect or a Heisman candidate or anything, but compared to most college QBs, he's an asset.

In response to the first bit, no, it doesn't sound good. There isn't a program in the upper half of the conference who wouldn't fire a coach with that winning percentage (he'd never be given 10 years). Sarkisian has one very good season on his resume and has otherwise never lost fewer than 4 games. Maybe he is a changed man after beating his drinking problem, and he'll be great from here on out. I'll need to see it for more than one year to believe it, though.

Sure, they couldn't go undefeated in the Big 12 with a better team than this one, but it's all gonna come together their first year in the SEC. If they hadn't gotten about as easy an SEC schedule as a team could get, I wouldn't even predict they'd make it to the conference championship game. They still might not depending on what everyone else does. I'll call it 10-2 for them with a loss to Georgia and an upset somewhere. I still don't trust Sarkisian as a head coach, so it wouldn't shock me if they fell even shorter of expectations.

I don't really understand the general assumption that Florida State will just reload from the portal and be fine. We really don't know what a program replacing talent through the portal will look like over time. I think they'll take a dip, though that still might mean they go 10-2 given their schedule.

There were like 6 bowls when Bryant coached there. And while 22-18-4 may not look spectacular, you know how many other coaches managed even that minor positive mark in the SEC while at Kentucky? None. I can't believe I'm having an argument over whether Bear Bryant was a better coach than Mark Stoops.

They played 5 to 6 SEC games a year, which was common for the era. He also won 68% of his games, had a winning SEC record (Stoops doesn't), and won their only SEC title. Let's put it this way: It took Stoops about 9 1/3 seasons to win as many games as Bryant did in 8 while playing an extra game or two every year.

I said relatively. Drawing four from the bottom half of the conference, including two of the three worst teams is more favorable than several other schedules. I would say only Missouri and Texas got what I would call easy schedules (factoring in how good the teams are relative to those schedules), at least as easy as any SEC schedule can be.

Stoops is the best coach to stay at Kentucky for any length of time, but Bear Bryant did coach there, you know. Kentucky's schedule is relatively light, giving them three guaranteed wins and more tossups in conference than, say, Florida. They could beat everyone but Georgia, Texas and Tennessee. Not that I think Tennessee is close to as good as Georgia and Texas. It's just that I never expect Kentucky to beat them. If Vandagriff goes through the kinds of growing pains you'd expect, I figure they'll go 6-6. If he's better than that, 8-4.

Um, Carson Beck's arm talent is better than any Georgia QB's since Stafford. That said, this isn't a terrible prediction. They're bound to lose a regular season game eventually. I wouldn't actually predict them to lose one, as I think they'll be better than everyone they play. Going 12-0 for four straight seasons is unprecedented, though.

They did play Georgia mostly even last year. In 2022 they took advantage of one of the two worst halves of football Georgia's played during the run they're on to build a lead that Georgia took a while to dig out from. Missouri was outgained by 200 yards. For what it's worth, I think Missouri is better than they were two years ago. I don't think they're likely to match the kind of season they had last year, though. More likely, they'll fall back to 8-4.

Missouri lost a lot off their defense, and they don't recruit at a high enough level to assume they're just going to reload. I also don't think they'll have anything like the kind of production in the running game they got from Schraeder. They can definitely lose to Auburn. People seem to forget that Drinkwitz went 6-7 in his first two real seasons before overachieving last year.

I'm assuming there was a signed contract with the Gator Collective, or the lawsuit wouldn't have any merit. Or at least, it would be a lot harder to win on a verbal agreement, and getting any kind of settlement without mountains of evidence for said verbal agreement would be highly unlikely. I don't like NIL being used as a tool to buy recruits, but it's where we are. I don't know the kid, so I'm not going to make a determination on his character. It's Florida's and Napier's own fault for not getting a better handle on NIL than this.