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I do wonder if the lack of facing quality offenses in the SEC catches up with them. But yeah, this is about the time you really want to start playing well if you want to peak in March.
Yeah I would agree. If we can even play as good as we have during this recent slide in results, we should be able to take care of Vandy and Ole Miss. Last few weeks have just been a constant flurry of tournament-caliber teams for us, but I think we've actually been playing better than we were earlier in the year. We just don't have a go-to scorer like we've had in the past that could take a game over when everyone else is shooting the ball poorly.
I do think it depends on which 3 they win. Obviously A&M can't afford a bad loss to Ole Miss, so that's a must win. Arkansas probably wouldn't be a Quad 1 win at home, but wouldn't be a bad loss either. UT and Bama will definitely be Quad 1 games, so a win in either of those would likely put A&M in for the time being. Missouri and State, while not locks, are likely to be Quad 1 games as well. If A&M can split those 4 while avoiding another bad loss they should be in a pretty comfortable spot.
Biggest problem I've noticed is that, other than Alabama, there just aren't any good shooting teams in this league. Sure, anybody can get hot for a game. We certainly were last night. But I've yet to see anyone else be able to consistently hit even open shots over the course of multiple games. The SEC seems to be a pretty balanced league behind Alabama this year in terms of how equal all the teams appear to be. The overall quality of those teams just isn't very good. We're no where near as good this year as the Big 12, Big East, or even the Big 10.
Buddy y'all had a good team in 2013. In 2014 the East was absolute garbage, while at one point the West had like 5 teams in the top 10 at the same time. In the West your team would have gone 7-5 that year. The East was so bad around that time that there were a couple of years where South Carolina and Vanderbilt were the 2nd and 3rd best programs in the division.
Yeah I was kind of confused about why he assumes Oklahoma will continue to stay down like Texas has since Oklahoma hasn't had more than a couple bad years in a row since the 90s. Texas is certainly harder to predict, but I think anyone who thinks it'll take Oklahoma more than a couple of years to start competing amongst the top 5-6 teams in the conference every year doesn't know much about the history of college football. And with a 12 team playoff, if you can be in the top 5-6 teams in the league in mid-November, you're most likely gonna be in the playoff mix.
I think this is what many people are overlooking. I actually expect moving to the SEC to help Texas get back to being a top tier program, as it's going to regain a lot of the exposure they have lost over the past decade. A&M had consistently been equaling or even bettering Texas on the recruiting trail in recent years, but I'd wager a lot of that had to do with being able to sell playing in the SEC over playing in the Big 12. But as you said, neither Oklahoma or Texas should be expecting to rule the conference. Sure, each has the capability over time to eventually go on a run like Georgia currently is, but the more realistic short-term goal for these two is probably to just further muddy the waters in the top half of the conference behind Georgia and Alabama.
That's why I've never been sold on either Lincoln Riley or Ryan Day as being elite coaches. It's not that difficult to be successful at Oklahoma and Ohio State, especially when you're each following coaches who already had their teams in the title hunt almost every year.
Pretty par for the course for us to regularly get the toughest schedule since we've always played Alabama and Georgia every year. I'm not sure why they split teams up the way they did in the article, my I'm still under the impression that a pod scheduling system is still the most likely. If that still ends up being the case, we'll end up in a pod with Alabama, either Georgia or Tennessee, and then another random team, probably Vanderbilt or South Carolina. I feel confident they won't put us and Alabama in the same pod with both Georgia and Tennessee, though. Honestly, I'm okay either way, because at least with 6 rotating games it will mean that there will be more than just one other team that plays both Alabama and Georgia in a given year, which should in theory provide more balanced schedules across the board for the top schools.
I agree with the decision not to finish the game, but I do think people are being overly critical of the NFL for taking so long to suspend it. This was an unprecedented situation in modern football. I actually applaud the NFL for taking some time to make sure everyone involved fully understood the situation before making a decision. I'm sure the NFL execs were watching the game, but there's just no way for them to have been able to fully understand the situation before they started contacting officials from both teams. They also can't just go off of the sideline reporter saying the player was receiving CPR. Before they suspended that game, they needed to gather all the facts and confirm what had taken place. Once that happened, over the course of the next 45 minutes or so, the announcement came that the game would be suspended.
I don't think it has to be a bone-crushing type of hit to cause commotio cordis based on my knowledge. I think it's more about the angle and timing of the hit in conjuction with the rhythm of the heart's beating.
I'm kind of in the middle on issues like this. I think that it's the responsibility of the broadcast team to show replays of any significant play in a game, and that includes injuries. However, I also agree that in situations like what happened last night, once everyone realizes the severity of the situation, the network should stop showing replays of it until the player's condition is revealed. With that said, ESPN immediately showed a couple of replays, as they would with any injury. But it was during the time spent showing those replays that I think everyone started realizing how serious it was, and that's why they didn't show any further replays. It was the replays that first made everyone not on the field aware of the situation, because it clearly wasn't an external injury to the head, neck, back, etc, after watching how he collapsed. I think they did exactly what they should have done from a broadcast standpoint.
I don't think either team is lucky to be here. When you look at everything that has happened up to this point in the season, it's pretty clear to me that these are the two best teams in the country this year. They deserve to be here, and they showed why on Saturday. I will say that I've definitely got questions about Georgia's secondary now. I chalked up the LSU game to them just playing conservative with a big lead, but Ohio State, albeit with the best receiving corps in the country, further exposed those weaknesses. TCU's receivers aren't as good as Ohio State's, but I'd feel pretty confident that they're better than LSU's. If Georgia will blitz at least 2/3 of the time, they'll win this game fairly easily. It was baffling to me the number of times they didn't blitz Stroud, and most of the time when they didn't blitz, they weren't getting pressure. When they blitzed, they were definitely making him uncomfortable. The biggest difference between TCU and Ohio State is O-line play, and TCU's O-line is much better than Ohio State's. Also, Stetson Bennett has to play better for the whole game. If 4th Quarter Bennett shows up early, this won't be close. If first half Stetson Bennett shows up, Georgia will probably have to pull it out late again.
I completely agree with you. And I've been saying for two months now that TCU is a better football team than Ohio State, and nothing I saw Saturday changed that belief. I agree with some of these comments that TCU doesn't have the receivers or QB that Ohio State had. But it's not a massive gap between them at those positions. Where there is a massive gap is the running game. TCU's running game is much better than Ohio State's. And because they play in the Big 12, people won't want to hear this, but TCU is a more physical team than Ohio State. TCU is the most physical team Georgia will have played this year. I wouldn't have believed that myself a couple months ago, but after seeing them Saturday, and in several other games late in the season, I'm a believer in that statement. I think Georgia wins, but Stetson Bennett has to play better than he did Saturday.
There are times when I will go for teams in certain games just because they're in the SEC, but it really just depends on the situation. Most of the time, if it's not a rival or a game that directly affects Auburn, I'll just go for either the underdog or the program with less of a winning tradition for the sake of parity. I love the SEC, but I root for parity more than anything. Parity is good for any sport.
I'm trying to think of who the lockdown corner could be. Off the top of my head, I'm having trouble coming up with some SEC guys at the position that aren't close to 30+ in age. WR would have a plethora of options between Chase, Jefferson, Waddle, AJ Brown, DK Metcalf, Deebo Samuel, and plenty of others.
Honestly, I'm not sure there's a QB in the league right now, SEC alum or otherwise, that I'd take over Joe Burrow. You could make a pretty strong argument that, 3 years in, he's already the best QB in the league.
Michigan--33, TCU--17 I think Michigan will go up 14-0 early, but it'll be a pretty even game after that. Everyone will then complain how big of a mismatch it was, like they always do with the first semifinal, and as is usually the case, it will end up being the more competitive of the two games. Georgia--41, Ohio St--17 Everyone seems to think Ohio State will keep this one close, and it may be for the first 20-25 minutes of game time. Best case scenario for the Buckeyes is their offense is able to move the ball for a couple of drives and get an early score, maybe having a 7-3 lead early in the 2nd quarter, but Georgia scores twice to end the half up 17-7, and they cruise from there. Worst case scenario, and I think this is also very possible, is Ohio State's offense gets rattled early and they find themselves down 24-0 before they even know what hit them, kind of like Oregon was in Week 1. Regardless, the buckeyes are about to get dominated at the line of scrimmage.
I was 50/50 on the targeting call. The one that was really bad was the fumble that stood after replay. I was pulling for Kansas at that point, but I couldn't believe that call stood.
The biggest problem I have is that there's never any common sense used during replays. I get that sometimes you can't overturn a play because you can't see the ball, but if a player is diving through a pile near the goal line while holding the ball against his chest, and then you can tell from one view that the upper half of his torso is in the end zone, then you shouldn't need to see the ball. I saw that happen probably a half dozen times this year where it was clearly a TD of 1st down, but since they couldn't see the ball, the call on the field stood that the runner was short. Put two and two together and use common sense to know the if he's holding the ball chest-high, and his entire upper torso is in the end zone, then the ball must also be in the end zone.
What he should be calling out is how pointless it is for the Big 12 to have a conference championship game since everybody already plays everybody. Fortunately that will no longer be the case starting next year.
And that's why Kiffin was never my first choice for Auburn. It doesn't really matter to me whether he turned the job down or it was never offered to him. Either way, I always preferred Freeze to Kiffin.
And he's been accurate enough to at least get a Training Camp invite next year.
Got some good laughs out of this. Don't know that I would suggest Connor quit his day job to become a poet though, haha.
Best pre-game intro with music is definitely Enter Sandman at Va Tech. In-game I'd go with Rocky Top. Jimbo definitely has the hottest seat. Napier needs to show improvement in Year 2, but he's also not making $10 million a year. I think Arnette will be interesting at State. Are they going to give him time to build the program his way as you normally would a new HC, or will he be expected to pick up right where Leach left off? 5-7 or 6-6 is probably a realistic Year 1 for Prime at Colorado, but it really will depend on how many more players they can get in the portal. Also, props to the CU athletic department for a non-conference schedule of TCU plus a current rivalry game and an old rivalry game. May not all be the toughest opponents, but rivalry games are what make this sport great. Home Alone 2
That is a good point, although I think Arch Manning is the very rare instance where he's probably worth the multi-millions he'll make just because of his last name more than where he is playing. Part of me thinks it would balance things out if only businesses within a certain radius of the college were allowed to have NIL deals with players at that school, but then it wouldn't be fair to schools not located in cities like Austin, Los Angeles, or Chicago. It's tough cause I'm more okay with it if a player gets paid a couple hundred bucks for appearing in a commercial for a local car dealership, but I don't think they should be able to appear in national ads, cause only a handful of schools have enough of a national reach to be able to offer that opportunity.
I fully support NIL money going into a fund that can only be claimed once the player graduates. That gives them an incentive to stay at the same school all four years and actually stay for their Senior season if they aren't going to be a 1st or 2nd round pick. Having a portion of it go back to their hometowns is a compelling idea too, since we so often hear about how poor some of the players were as kids.
Hey that could be fun. Have the players decide which conference they want to play in and then draft from the ones that choose your conference.
Yes that is correct. That rule only applies to head coaches, right and not coordinators or position coaches?