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The Power Five => SEC => Topic started by: Cincydawg on January 29, 2019, 07:28:55 AM
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The various sports sites of course have their take. I'm doing a simple one here for comment, and discussion.
Florida - Probably down a notch due to losses.
Georgia - Steady, perhaps up slightly.
Missouri - I think losing Lock is going to be significant, down a bit, but still a threat.
South Carolina - Probably even, maybe up a notch.
Kentucky - Interesting, one would think down quite a bit, but perhaps the coaching is really making a difference.
Vandy - down a notch to 5-7 or perhaps 4-8.
Tennessee - up some in a second year of Pruitt, might go 8-5?
It LOOKS like most will lose enough talent and experience to trail off some after a decent year overall.
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Florida
Presuming Florida does not fall off too much, they appear to have a challenging schedule that could still net them a nice year. Three games in bold could be losses, and the games in red could be challenges (maybe not Miami so much). The might go 1-2 in the bolded games and lose 1 or 2 of the other red games and we're looking at of course 9-3 or 8-4, which is solid. And of course it's not a stretch to think they could finish 10-2 with a break perhaps, and maybe Auburn isn't such a tall order.
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Mizzou just hit with 2 year bowl ban.
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Georgia- The good news is Georgia returns most of their starters from last year. The bad news is both coordinators moved on, and there were some early entrants that will be missed.
TE is going to be thin with the departure of Nauta and transfer of Luke Ford back to Illinois.
If Jake Fromm goes down with an injury there aren't any proven commodities there for my liking. The O Line should be the strength of this team and they are deep with talent. Some new WR's should emerge. How will Zeus look in fall camp? If he's 100% lookout! The defense should be good again with more depth than UGA has had in a while.
UGA is 12-0 vs. the East in the last two years. Can they keep it that way and at worst split the games with Auburn and Texas A&M? If so, they'll likely be playing Alabama again for the SECC.
Florida- for Florida, i think alot is going to depend on their O Line and the improvement of Franks. I don't see Miami beating them in week 1. They'll likely be 5-0 heading into the Auburn game. The back end of the schedule is more daunting with going to LSU and Columbia, SC, Georgia in Jacksonville and at Missouri. Unless FSU makes drastic improvement i don't see them losing there. I'm guessing they go 10-2 or 9-3.
Kentucky- Kentucky was a pretty senior laden team last season. Do they have another Benny Snell and Josh Allen lying in wait?
Tennessee-well the good news for Tennessee is that their OOC schedule is about as manageable as you could want. Likely 4 wins there. Can they get to 4-4 in the SEC or better? Not so sure. They haven't exactly had stellar QB play recently and their Oline is likely to be extremely young. 8-4 might be the ceiling for this team. Is that good enough for UT fans in year 2 under Pruitt?
Missouri-What will a Kelly Bryant led Missouri team look like? I don't think he's anywhere near the passer that Lock was, but their offense could be interesting with more of a dual threat guy.
i didn't include Vandy and South Carolina because i just haven't paid much attention to them lately.
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Most interesting SEC East teams next year are:
Kentucky
Tennessee
Perhaps:
Missouri
South Carolina
Each of these could probably end up between 8-4 and 4-8.