Saturday, September 4, 2010
SEC Football Blogger |
- SEC Against the Spread…Week 1
- A Half-Dozen Hyper-Specific Predictions About…Alabama
- A Half-Dozen Hyper-Specific Predictions About…Florida
- A Half-Dozen Hyper-Specific Predictions About…Auburn
| Posted: 03 Sep 2010 10:21 PM PDT
 FUHBAWWWWW!!! SEC Against the Spread…Week 1 So I’m going to start week 1 with an 0-1 record. I said Southern Miss was going to win outright. I’ll make my bad. I’ll lie in it. I also said UNC was going to win outright. And in my last post? I said Alabama was going to win and cover. Add to this the fact that Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi rolling out on us with a FCS game? This will be a shortish post. Miami (OH) at (-38) Florida La.-Lafayette at (-28) Georgia Kentucky (-3) at Louisville Arkansas State (+31.5) at Auburn Memphis at (-21) Mississippi State Northwestern (-3.5) at Vanderbilt |
| A Half-Dozen Hyper-Specific Predictions About…Alabama Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:50 PM PDT
So now we get to this. The greatest team in the SEC right now. The devil Saban and his minions from hell. The #1 team in the country and the best team in NCAA 11. They supposedly have their best offense ever. Will it be enough? Last year: 14-0 (8-0) 1st SEC West 1) The injury to Mark Ingram and the suspension to Marcell Dareus? Meaningless. They beat San Jose State by 40. They comfortably cruise past Penn State. Both times they put up at least 41 points. 2) With these two games Trent Richardson will generate enough carries to join Mark Ingram as one-thousand yard rushers. This is enough of a total to beat the national rushing total by 300 yards. 3) Julio Jones will have another seeming ho-hum season. Did you know last year he didn’t have 45 catches or 5 touchdowns? It’s true. This year? 51 catches and 7 scores. 4) Mark Barron will be the steadying force of the defensive secondary which will allow this team to jell and jell quickly.Dre Kirkpatrick will lead the team in interceptions, but it’s Barron’s steadying force that saves the day. 5) Though the defense will fall back to 2006 levels. They will allow 19 points per game. Still a good number, but not the domination of 2009. So yeah. 6) When I went through and did Auburn’s six, I tried to add drama to this. I said it was going to come down to the Iron Bowl. Every other game won’t matter. It all comes down to this. And while Greg McElroy will get to a career 41-0 as a starter? Streaks are made to be broken. Auburn takes them down 27-22. This year: 11-1 (7-1) t1st SEC West Auburn’s record this year: 11-1 (7-1) t1st SEC West; Auburn wins the tiebreaker. Final SEC Standings East 1. Florida 10-2 (6-2) West 1. Auburn 11-1 (7-1) SEC Title Game: Auburn 38; Florida 21. |
| A Half-Dozen Hyper-Specific Predictions About…Florida Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:55 PM PDT
 Tebow cried for an in-season conference loss. A Half-Dozen Hyper-Specific Predictions About…Florida Now in my professional expertise, you look at a team that just lost its all everything quarterback and you think there has to be a fall off. Only once have you ever seen a new quarterback step in and make everybody forget the legend. So, can John Brantley make everybody forget about the Tebow? Short answer? No. Last Year: 13-1 (8-0) 1st SEC East 1) Emmanuel Moody will be dinged up early in the year. It will not stop him from leading the Gators in rushing and rushing touchdowns with 1079 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns. 2) This development will keep Jordan Reed as the Tight End for most of the season. In an upset, he will lead the team with 8 touchdown grabs. Brantley will develop a rapport with him in a Machiavellian plot to keep him from playing quarterback. John Brantley is devious. 3) As for Brantley? He will throw for greater than 3200 yards and 30 touchdowns. Chris Rainey and Deonte Thompson will combine for 14 touchdowns. Carl Moore will add in 6. 4) Jonathan Bostic will race Ahmad Black to the tackle lead. But Ahmad Black will win the most likely to be Bob Sanders trophy. So there’s that. 5) Kentucky will go into the 4th quarter with a 24-17 lead on the Gators. The Gators will roar back with three touchdowns to get the win. But it will not be enough for the Gators to avoid losing to Alabama in the SEC’s first game of the century of the year. 6) This is not a team that suffers going to the Capital One Bowl easily. And as such? This year will be a disappointment. 49 states will wish them to shut up about it. Oh, we only won 11 games and our division, such a down year this was! My hypothetical Florida fan laments. I say chillax. The division was still yours. This year: 10-3 (6-2) 1st SEC East |
| A Half-Dozen Hyper-Specific Predictions About…Auburn Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:07 PM PDT
Last year? The Plainsmen were a team in shambles. The Tony Franklin experiment was an abject failure and they tabbed a coach with a career record of 5-19 to rebuild. And by all accounts? It kind of worked. Yeah, they tied for 4th in the SEC West, but they were only really blown out twice. How well do they build on this? Find out…now. Last year: 8-5 (3-5) t4th SEC West 1) Lost amidst the Julio Jones versus A.J. Green debate will be the further emergence of of Darvin Adams. Did you know that he caught 10 TD passes last year? I didn’t. Okay, I did. But with Cameron Newton at quarterback? He will improve to a line of 71-1023-14 touchdowns. 2) There will not be a true #1 running back in Auburn. Mario Fannin, Ontario McCalebb, and Michael Dyer will all have games where they rush for over 100 yards. No one will dominate the carry totals. 3) Clemson has won the last 13 games they have played versus Auburn. That will change this year. It won’t be a statement game. But a 24-20 win counts just as well in the standings. 4) Josh Bynes will etch his name in the annals of the great Auburn linebackers with another 110 tackle-8 pass breakup season. 5) But their defensive weakness will not beanswered until mid-October when Corey Lemonier emerges as a starting defensive end slash pass-rushing ace. Lee Ziemba will have taught him well. 6) As I write this? I’ve already been proven wrong on a prediction, so you know what. I’m gonna supercede another. Ole Miss is not going to beat Auburn. That was just silly. Comedic even. Auburn is going to have a great season. But I’m going to wait on Auburn’s record. Suffice it to say? The Iron Bowl will decide the SEC West, and likely the whole SEC. So? You’re just going to have to deal with my cop-out and read on. |
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