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The Power Five => SEC => Topic started by: OrangeAfroMan on September 04, 2017, 06:43:36 PM
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Super lame that Eason is out for UGA @ ND.
Florida could score 100 points on Saturday, but it won't mean anything has improved on offense.
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Fromm is a decent looking QB but obviously a true freshman. The line changed from 3.5 to 6.5 on the injury.
I may be optimistic, but I think UGA will beat ND. The UGA defense is looking pretty stout, as it should with ten players coming back and some really good freshmen already in the mix. They had a couple guys held out against ASU so the young guys played a whole game already.
UGA also held out on OLman who should be back (tweaked ankle), so perhaps the OL will be half decent, though ND is different from ASU in the lines obviously.
I see something like 27-17.
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Kentucky, Ole Miss, Alabama, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Texas A&M, LSU, Florida and Mississippi State have cupcakes this weekend.
The pressure is going to be on Arkansas, Auburn and Georgia to make statements for the SEC this weekend.
Clemson didn't look to have missed D. Watson much on Saturday, TCU vs. Arkansas always seems to be a good game and Georgia travels to pay a visit to a what looks to be an improved Touchdown Jesus team. I could see the SEC going 1-2 in these games Saturday very easily.
South Carolina and Missouri square off in week 1 of SEC play. This one could be a track meet.
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Kentucky, Ole Miss, Alabama, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Texas A&M, LSU, Florida and Mississippi State have cupcakes this weekend.
The pressure is going to be on Arkansas, Auburn and Georgia to make statements for the SEC this weekend.
Clemson didn't look to have missed D. Watson much on Saturday, TCU vs. Arkansas always seems to be a good game and Georgia travels to pay a visit to a what looks to be an improved Touchdown Jesus team. I could see the SEC going 1-2 in these games Saturday very easily.
South Carolina and Missouri square off in week 1 of SEC play. This one could be a track meet.
0-3 would be a complete surprise.
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0-3 wouldn't be a complete surprise in my opinion.
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0-3 wouldn't be a complete surprise in my opinion.
yes, agree. i mistyped.
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Guess we'll see if Barn is worth the hype.
My guess is they get their ass kicked in two Death Valleys this year.
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lots of cats in the top ten..
the top ranked cats will shred the barn, methinks. nothing against Auburn, but Clemson just looks to be that explosive again... they almost seem like the $SU teams of the nineties- who also played with their food like a cat, and only struck fatal blows when it suited them. Clemson is like that. when they want to they strike, and it wasn't QB dependent as it turns out. this may be a mighty imprudent comment, though, being early and competition lacking as it was.
I don't know what to think of Arky, yet... I only caught glimpses of their game this weekend. the part that i witnessed showed players getting into their backfield causing their playcaller to hustle... what kind of florida team was that? it wasn't a gator a hurricane a bull or a native american of the sort that never ever surrendered to the feds... and unless arky was playin true freshmen at that point or prospects, that may worry me a bit.
i've got a notion oog-guh blows it this weekend.... in spectacular fashion... causing the pundits to declare the 'return of the irish' and awarding kelly COTY instantly. hell, they'll be #1 in all polls and computer models by Monday if what I think is going to happen happens...
so... go ooh-guh.. please, beat the irish badly- i won't be able to tolerate the chest thumpinig from 'only if the irish are ahead' fan base... unless they buy stuff from the store- then i'm all for it. but they won't... they're irish afterall (me being one of that sort, albeit one with some decent taste when it comes to football, i happen to know).
an aside: UT is going to be exhausted against those eighth graders... take the under and bank that UT doesn't cover.
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UGA is a 6.5 point dog on the road with a QB making his first career start. Although he played pretty well on Saturday this is a way different environment. How do you blow it when you're the underdog already?
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... not 'rep the SEC. sorta like my boys have been doing the last few years.
all that aside, it's not UGA's O that should worry the Irish... it's their D. you can't win if you can't score. I wager UGA locks them down. I mean, in all seriousness that is what i expect.
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Don't get me wrong, Auburn was only playing Georgia Southern, which has no bearing on playing Clemson this weekend. However, Auburn allowed 78 yards at 1.39 ypp. Regardless of who you are playing among D1 schools, that is a pretty impressive outing.
Auburn had the 5th best D in SEC in 2016 and, against Clemson, allowed them their lowest output in points and yards all year. Granted, I think some of that was because they knew we had the worst game plan in D1 history last year, and we were not going to score anything other than field goals.
It took a bit, but the O starting clicking against GSU with Stidham working off some of the rust from not being in a real game in almost two years.
While Auburn will likely not win on the road, I believe it will be closer than you guys are thinking (or at least I hope so).
Looking forward to my first trip to Clemson this weekend. Hopefully, the game will be worth the time and money.
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... not 'rep the SEC. sorta like my boys have been doing the last few years.
all that aside, it's not UGA's O that should worry the Irish... it's their D. you can't win if you can't score. I wager UGA locks them down. I mean, in all seriousness that is what i expect.
we shall see in the matter of a few days. Our guys are going to need to play disciplined, fundamentally sound football. Notre Dame has some decent backs that hit the hole fast. Winbush can beat you with his legs so when he runs UGA must keep him from extending drives.
After watching the Notre Dame game last night Temple's Dline was getting some penetration, they just missed alot of tackles. There were a few blatant holds on two different touchdowns Notre Dame scored, as well. Hopefully those officials aren't calling this game.
I wouldn't be surprised if UGA wins by two scores, but i also wouldn't be surprised if they lose either.
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This is fun time for CFB.
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Guess we'll see if Barn is worth the hype.
My guess is they get their ass kicked in two Death Valleys this year.
I'll be reminding you of this.
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One of the games that is going to be intriguing to me this weekend is South Carolina @ Missouri.
First conference game of the year and both coming in 1-0.
This game is liable to have 100 points scored in it.
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Of the 4 big games Saturday night, I like Ohio State big (over 2 tds), USC and UGA medium (10-14) and Auburn by the skin of their paws.
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Florida cancels a game due to a hurricane for the 2nd straight year. Cost us a 10th win last year.
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I understand that a lot of Georgia fans...especially the UGA Alumni clubs in some of the big cities around the country...got special tour packages from various travel agencies for the Notre Dame game today. Since most of them would be flying into Chicago, a lot of the tour packages included a Cubs game on Friday night.
In a very nice show of class, the Cubs invited Vince Dooley to throw out the first pitch. Apparently there were a lot of Dawg fans there, and they just barked up a storm. Best of all, Coach Dooley threw the pitch to Cubs pitcher Justin Grimm, a former Bulldog.
And to my great surprise, Coach Dooley actually THREW the ball...instead of just running it up the middle.
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Really enjoying the UGA-ND game. I thought Mike Tirico died thought. I'm not confusing him with John Saunders, I know he definitely died. Who am I thinking of? I honestly thought it was Tirico.
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And to my great surprise, Coach Dooley actually THREW the ball...instead of just running it up the middle.
That was amazing.
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As expected, the UGA defense is nasty fast and makes a lot of PF errors. The Dawg O is, well, not great.
Glad of course to have the win especially with 35,000 Dawg fans paying insane ticket prices to be there. That was an impressive showing.
The fan base is hungry.
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It strikes me that several SEC teams have really good Ds and really mediocre Os.
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USCe looked good... it was hard to tell what kind of O Mizzou had though, from the week prior.
UGA is likely the favorite in the east at this point, no? I'm thinking it's between them and USCe, with outside chance of UF finding some O. UT could possibly be in the bottom outside of that mix, too, but they haven't really done anything to truly impress me- they have a good stable of backs, and a decent QB in QD. What about vandy? They've had two solid outings, now. It doesn't explain to us anything other than that by my reckoning.
Auburn did a great job of holding Clemson... not good enough, but good. that may be the lowest score they get this season. Clemson, that is... Auburn still has to play Bama and LSU- they may be held to 6 again... It's hard to tell anything about LSU other than they played with their food again for a spell... then went to work. It's not that Bama lopsided Fresno, it's that they did it without any effort or without breaking a sweat.
UF and UT coming up- if it isn't rescheduled. It may be rescheduled... and if it is, any advantage UT got from any bleed-over suspensions or rust on UF will be negated. For the first time in a long time i can say this game won't have the conference champion playing going into it. obviously i speak more to UF than UT- you'd have to go back to the nineties to where this game decided the east or had national implications.
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Ehhh, Florida won the East last year with the 105th offense in the country, so I wouldn't start throwing Carolina above us just yet.
The shitty part of all this is that pre-Tennessee, all Florida has gotten is a crap-fest against a strong Michigan team and nothing else. No tune-up. No cupcake to get playing time for backups or to try out different things on offense.
This might retard our whole season.
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'fro, i watched that UF D against Michigan... when they flashed their brilliance, they were amazing- and absolutely capable of carrying the O to Atlanta. I'm NEVER one to scoff at UF. I DON'T know that USCe is that good, either... they've played a NCST that is supposed to be good, and they beat up a Mizzou that had a hellacious game offensively the week prior.. they beat them both, but they've shown flaws, too.
UGA playing Fromm came out a lot better than I expected... but to be honest I expected Chubb and co. to run without resistance from the Irish... I was surprised the ND D played as well as they did, all things withstanding- and I DON'T think it was UGA faltering, but instead that ND has a pretty decent squad.
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Well I've got 2 things -
1 - the FL-GA game last year, UGA's offense made ours look like Oregon's
2 - Fromm was very composed, which was impressive, BUT held the ball too much
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Really enjoying the UGA-ND game. I thought Mike Tirico died thought. I'm not confusing him with John Saunders, I know he definitely died. Who am I thinking of? I honestly thought it was Tirico.
Stuart Scott?
Don't know of anyone else. Chris Berman's wife just died. Maybe you heard that without paying attention and could have misinterpreted it as him. But probably not.
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I'll be reminding you of this.
One down, one to go.
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Not a win and an awful offensive performance by Auburn . . . but I am greatly encouraged by Auburn D. However, unless the D can start scoring, we may have a long year on the plain.
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Not a win and an awful offensive performance by Auburn . . . but I am greatly encouraged by Auburn D. However, unless the D can start scoring, we may have a long year on the plain.
as i said before- I don't think clemson will score less the remainder of the year, and that is against a FSU D at some point that is every bit as good as anyone out there... Auburn will play D's just as tough at least twice more in LSU and Bama. Sometimes a team needs help no matter how good they are.
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Drew, just curious why you termed LSU playing with their food for a while? Scoring TD's on the first two possessions, scoring 14 per quarter through 3 quarters and punting once on the night hardly feels like dicking around with an opponent, and is a nice change of pace from what we've seen from some of our other scrub games in recent years.
Also, why do my paragraphs have no line breaks in them even though I'm putting them there?
EDIT: Well of course now that I say it, it shows up correctly in this post. In others it hasn't been.
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i'm tracking on that bug, Sir- I think it happens most often when someone posts while you're typing one up, and you get that message "warning, another post... while you were typing" and makes you hit 'post' again...
I didn't watch this game, Mike, except for highlights- i did, however, keep an eye on the boxscore during its play. Was it not deep into the first (if there is such a thing) until LSU started lighting them up?
Tiano gave up two intercepts, but put up 174 yards on LSU through the air... Bridges rushed 15 for 88... i had the distinct impression that LSU could have played even tighter on D than they did, but opted to rotate (which is commendable) instead, and which is, by my reckoning, "playing with their food"... if so, they played with their food all night instead of batting them around and then going for the kill. Either way, the Moc's never had a chance.
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That doesn't seem to have been the trouble with my posts over on the B12 forum earlier today. I think I posted a few times in a row, so no one posted while I was typing, and I didn't get that notification. But, you did say "most often." Track away....
Gotcha. If you didn't watch the game or are just unfamiliar with our pace, I guess it could seem that way. UTC got the ball first and went on a FG drive that took a good 4 minutes off the clock right away. Then we went on a TD drive that was slow and methodical, just like the rest of our two games so far. We weren't playing around...like NBC, "This Is Us." So it was probably 4 minutes or less to go by the time we scored, but we'd only had one possession. Heck, against BYU last week, we were in the middle of our second possession, with BYU having only one, and the 1st quarter was over. We're not getting many chunk plays, and the clock stays rolling in our games.
Last week's BYU game was 2 hrs. 56 mins. from kickoff to end :smiley_confused1:
I'm not positive, but I suspect a chunk of Tiano's yards came on their late TD drive against the bench. And they did drive on us for a FG at the beginning of the game, but we weren't taking them lightly. They just scripted a very good series and got the better of us for a bit.