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Florida is a mess... 
It's really hard to tell anything about Bama yet... 
Texas, same as Bama, but they have depth at the most important position, as manning might start at just about any other school in the nation. 
Tennessee has a QB again, but I saw something not mentioned- he held his left shoulder briefly between plays... sore? strained?  bug bite?  now couple that with the fact he and the entire O loafed the last couple drives of the first half, and.... it deserves to be watched... intensity can be coached, though.  
aTm lost that game by less points than they should have.. they absolutely had the home team officials.. and, i don't think ND is 'that' good.  maybe a top 25 but not a top ten team at this point. 
vandy looked good and then they didn't.  they gave up a 20-3 lead and went into OT with a VT team that couldn't execute to save their lives. 
Ole Miss has a lot of firepower... what'll happen when they have any resistance whatsoever?  they won't score 70+ points, for certain. 
Oklahoma.... it's hard to say, but based on what i watched they're a middling team.  the joke could be on me, too, because they may gel up before they play my guys. 
USCe has a coaching problem.. Beamer ain't it.  he's dishonest and he's in over his head.  
Can't tell anything about Mizzou, either.
LSU?  I ain't sold on kelly living up to the hype.. like.. ever.  


and then their is UGA.  who i love to hate while still having great respect for what Smart is and has done.  THAT is the team to watch, and not just because they're #1.  

against Clemson, who i'm not sold is currently and 'elite' team, they did something they'd do to anyone.  it's two factors and the kind that if present makes ANY team hard to beat.  first off, it's been said, when speaking of defenses, "scheme gets the player in position; talent/ability makes the play".  i've seen teams play above their station where the player made up for the scheme, and i've seen scheme's make a player look better than they are.  with UGA, they have both- and it's always present.  they have it on the field and they have it on the bench two layers deep. That makes them damn near impervious to offenses unless that offense is really really good at what they do.  Clemson isn't, but the good news is there are few who are... likely, a very few.  the next thing they have is ability to identify and adjust- which is on coaching entirely- and they do... they identify and make good adjustments at the half, and pour on the throttle.  that's bad news for one dimensional teams, which are most the teams they face this season.  

I'm afraid you are right about "middling team." And it could be worse than middling. With a first-year starter at QB, our O-line is going to have to get much better fast or it will be a long, unenjoyable season.


Our D, OTOH, looks like it might finally be up to Brent Venables' standards.

Your fellas got quite the rude schedule as a welcome aboard... its a grind as tough as just about anyone else's.  Florida has it rough, too... thats the thing about this league.  Depth is incredibly important. Roster is everything. 

Every dang team in the SEC thinks they'll play for the trophy every year and a team like oklahoma or texas, who are every bit as good as any sec team, are going to find out quickly that they're marked... they're going to get everyone's best shot... which isn't excpetional... what is- every team actually believes it and they aren't just hyped....

week in.. week out.. it has to be hard on those kids to carry that, because if they slip up (and do every year) those that loved them are going to hate them just like that.  It's as any other league, just cranked up every single weekend.  It's gotta be tough on the coaches too- not only to keep the players focused but to manage their mental health to be able to put a game behind them, because a dog just as nasty as the last one is next.  Circling games is a certain way for a team to fall unexpectedly. 

A little easier schedule would have been more humane.  Then again, coming out of it with ten wins will be dang near a superhuman accomplishment for the sooners and the type of thing legends are made from....... and it 'could' happen.

I need to call the team! I bet Arkansas doesn't know it's been kicked from the SEC.... really?

Momma told me "if ya ain't got nuthin good to say or what you have to say isn't encouraging,  don't say nuthin"...

 

How long do ya figure arkys coach will last?  Methinks him a good dude... he's over his head but at least he's honest.

By the way... arky has been my second or maybe third team for a long time... since way back in the mid nineties when on deployment and I drew them while playing ncaa football on a game console... I took them to the championship game with a RB named "butt plug" who averaged over 600yds rushing a game, but lost something like 63 to 77 to a Nebraska team that scored on every other special teams play. 

We gave all skilled players foul names.. and cranked the volume up on the tube... it would draw quite the audience who were equally bored with life at the time. 

Is this the part where I start chanting SECSECSEC?  Please forgive my newbie questions...

6 of the top 7.  Sheesh.

You can't drop one to "South Carolina" and slide by.

Seems like that's exactly the point of a 12 team playoff.  You can drop one, or two, or maybe even more, and slide by.  

Who cares about the CG?  Alabama has avoided that potential loss and gone on to tout NCs more than once, and nobody even remembers (except me, I guess).  UGA lost the CG and nobody remembers or cares, because they won the NC. 

Make the playoffs, win a NC.  That's the goal.  Most people don't remember or care about conference championships anymore.  It's a leftover vestige from a bygone era, sort of like my appendix. 

Personally, I wish the sport were still regional and CGs were of utmost importance, and NCs were lagniappe and fodder for water cooler conversations.  But, that ain't the world we live in.