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I haven't seen a real dominate team in the SEC. More parity this year than in the past I guess due to the NIL and portal.

We will find out Saturday if Kentucky is for real this time or they start their downward trend as they have previously. 

Tennessee is still a mystery team dependent upon the running game and needing a dominate defense in every game which is hard to do. I still don't think Milton will win many games with his passing game when it comes crunch time.

he certainly won't win any games... he'll throw it to the sidelines as time expires while being down six, just as he did in the Ole Miss game a couple years ago... I like the kid, but his ability to think on his feet is lacking.  

Everyone has been sloppy. no one looks all that good, to me.  Bama is down, I think, but still competent and talented.

UK at UGA will be interesting I think.  Maybe UGA comes out looking better, they need to.

LSU becomes a true coin flip the rest of the way, I think.  The offense is good enough to win them any game on the schedule, including if they were to make it to ATL against UGA.  The defense is bad enough to lose them any game on the schedule, probably including Army.  You could consequently assign them 4-3 or 3-4 the rest of the way, and they aren't going to ATL and won't have the privilege of rematching UGA.  Now it's just a matter of seeing each week which way the coin lands. 

What strange times we live in when LSU's offense is the best in the conference and the defense is 117th in the nation. 

I don't know what to make out of Florida.  It's possible Tennessee just really has UF in their heads that much and that game was meaningless and UF is really bad.  Still, that UT game happened and UF looked plenty competent, if not "good."  Maybe Kentucky was the aberration.  Not sure....we'll see.  Tough team to gauge. 

I might watch UK/UGA for the first time in a long while.  For a quarter and a half, anyway, 'til it becomes obvious it's not actually going to be a good game and UGA pulls away.  

It'll be interesting to see if UK can run on UGA as they did on UF, or anything close to that.

UGA seems to have only one successful play these days.

According to the nUmbarz, we missed 34 tackles last weekend.  Is that bad?

Led to 285 yards after misses. 

I can't help but think that factored into the loss, somehow.

A record is a record, right?

I'll take:

LSU @ Mizzou -- Bengal tiger offense appears good enough to win any game, defense bad enough to lose any game, thus I see every game as a coin flip.  That being the case, the homer in me takes the correct Tigers.  There will be zero surprise, however, if Mizzou wins, or even wins big.  The offense has to be near perfect to even make games a pick-'em, and they've been near perfect, but if it's a day where the offense doesn't have it, well....

W. Mich @ Clanga -- chance for hapless cowbells to pick up a W toward hopeful bowl eligibility

Bama @ aTm -- Interesting game in that Jimbo may be on the hot seat with a loss.  He's been objectively worse than Sumlin, and the Ags didn't put up with that either.  Aaron Murray made a good point about perception, I thought...that A&M could go 8-4 while winning this weekend and he's probably safe.  On the other hand, if they go 8-4 with a loss to Bama, the "powers" are gonna be mighty restless.  On the flip side, could this actually be a must-win for Saban?  I'd like to think not because surely Alabama is smarter than to run off arguably the GOAT coach and get on the coaching carousel based on half a season, but man has that fanbase started to melt down since the Texas game.  Bama does not want to get into a game where Milroe has to throw it, they'll want to run 70-80% of the time.  That Gump OL has started looking better and better at run blocking and playing like their "biggest OL in football" title demands.  That said, the A&M D-line looks for real, and if anybody can avoid getting knocked off the ball, they can.  A&M will slow them down but Bama will get their yards and points.  On the other side, I don't think A&M will be able to move the ball as much, so Bama is my pick, but not with much confidence.  

Vandy @ Gators -- Bounce-back game for Florida.  The admin and fans may be more patient but the media is already starting to lose their cool with Napier.  Fortunately Vandy offers a mild enough speed-bump that Florida will live to fight another day.  

UKan't @ Three-peat Hopefuls -- This has the trappings of an interesting game.  Well-coached Wildcat team who genuinely believes they can win and looks like a tough out vs. a Dawg squad that has looked mortal this year and even pedestrian at times.  It's fool's gold.  Kentucky will be fired up but UGA will use this game to quiet their critics and by mid-3rd quarter at the latest it will be obvious Georgia's superior talent and depth is going to pull away to a lopsided score.  Much of the second half probably won't be worth watching.  

Pigs @ Rebears -- Arkansas' OL looks suspiciously not like a Sam Pittman OL.  Like, they've been really bad outside of one game vs. LSU, and well, LSU is the worst defense in cfb.  On the other hand, Ole Miss' front 7 is not nearly what A&M's front 7 is, so the Hawgs will probably show a little better than they did last week.  But the Rebels have enough on both sides, I suspect, to win this one at home.  If Piggy finds a way to close down Ole Miss' run game the story changes, but I don't think they can do it.  The Fighting Eli's keep the Lane Train rolling into further delusions about being an upper tier SEC program. 

Looks like I mostly favor the home teams, except for Bama and the homer pick.  Seems reasonable.