Lane Kiffin ‘not worried’ about the SEC West being ‘wide open,’ gives opinion on recent parity in CFB
By Ethan Stone
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Lane Kiffin is focused on Alabama, not the idea that the SEC West is “wide open.”
Though it very well may be. Kiffin acknowledged that the perceived parity in college football this year is apparent. Why? He has his opinions on the matter.
Kiffin says the reason the playing field is “all over the place” in CFB and the SEC is because of the transfer portal and the uncertainty of it when planning and even predicting the best teams in each conference. Here’s what he had to say at the SEC’s weekly teleconference Wednesday afternoon.
“I just think the playing field is all over the place in college football and SEC I think because of portal and I think what you’re going to see is your guy’s media predictions at the beginning of the year over time, last year, this year and coming years are probably going to be really off and hard to do because you’ve got all these new pieces and you don’t know how they’re going to fit together. I’m not worried about the West and it being wide open. We’ve got to go play Alabama which had the best home winning record over the last decade in the entire country. And we’ve got a number of injuries on offense and … we have 1 freshman linebacker that they went after that we were able to get in Perkins. Other than that they took their 85 players and then we had to pick from the rest, so that tells you what type of challenge it is.”
Alabama, despite recent struggles, is going to be a tough out for the Rebels. Obviously. The Tide don’t lose at home much, and they certainly don’t lose at home twice in one season much, referring to Texas’ win over the Tide in Tuscaloosa earlier this season.
And even if the west is wide open according to some, Saturday’s game could come back to be the deciding factor in who wins the conference come late November.
Ethan Stone is a Tennessee graduate and loves all things college football and college basketball. Firm believer in fouling while up 3.
