Friday, September 11, 2009
SEC Football Blogger |
- SEC Lines Week 2
- LSU vs Vanderbilt, Prediction Preview 2009
- Georgia vs. South Carolina, Prediction Preview 2009
| Posted: 10 Sep 2009 09:31 PM PDT SEC Lines Week 2 I have to admit, I fluked into a great week last week. 8-1 against the lines. I know this is strictly for entertaiment purposes. But give me a moment. *pats myself on the back* So, onward and upward, yeah? Let’s roll. Florida -37 vs. Troy I’m going to take the cover here. Mid-majors can get hit with the trap game. Troy can put up a massive amount of points, and Urban’s going to slow up as they get to 60. I see 59-24 for Florida. And you know what? That’s not enough. Vanderbilt -12 @ LSU You dominated the Catamounts? Nice work. I’m sure you’re feeling fired up and ready to go for the Bayou Bengals. Who are feeling it from the coaching staff after being put in a no-win scenario in Seattle. LSU will get 31 points. Vanderbilt likely gets some form of two scores. LSU. Alabama -35 vs. Florida International They put up 35 on Virginia Tech. Florida International will get a score on their defense. So you know what? I can’t see Saban putting up 40. Ingram’s sick, and Saban may be the devil, but he’s a running devil. I’m going to take FIU. COVERAGE! Georgia -8 vs. South Carolina This game is going to ugly. It’s going to be mean. And it’s going to be nasty. I’m going to take South Carolina. Because we’re living in a world where this will be decided by one score. And means South Carolina is the obvious call here. Also the under. Tennessee -10 vs. UCLA UCLA is a team that knows how to stop the pass. So we aren’t going to see Jonathan Crompton go crazy. But they can still be run on. And with the single greatest recruit in the history of College Football? It means take the Volunteers. Auburn -14 vs. Mississippi State Take the under. Also, take Auburn. Just because. SPORTS!
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| LSU vs Vanderbilt, Prediction Preview 2009 Posted: 10 Sep 2009 08:46 PM PDT LSU vs Vandy, Prediction Preview 2009 The key for LSU against Vanderbilt is two-fold. First, they really need to shore up their back seven on defense and second, they need a much more efficient and mas fuerte performance from the offense. The expected well-lubricated crowd for the home-opener should help too. Night games in Baton Rouge are always a bit of a spectacle. LSU’s defense looked shaky again when they beat Washington last week. Some of that is probably due to UW having a competent coach, but the questions about the Tigers’ ability at linebacker and in the secondary remain. Their speed is questionable at best, and it’s making every matchup against speedy teams that much scarier for the LSU faithful, and probably Les Miles too. Well, maybe not this week since Vanderbilt is coming to town. The Commodores always play respectable defense, but their offense is routinely atrocious, even when Jay Cutler was there. They also like to run the ball before they pass, which plays right into LSU’s strength up front and, for a while at least, means the secondary won’t have to wonder how many times they’re going to get burned by no-name receivers. While I respect Bobby Johnson and Vandy, this squad doesn’t measure up against LSU, especially not on the road. Against Washington, LSU sufferend from the kind of offensive schizophrenia that limited that unit last year as well. They couldn’t decide whether they want to spread it out and play fast with Jordan Jefferson, Keiland Williams and the receivers, or if they want to line it up with two tight ends and let Charles Scott batter away at defenses, filling the hole in the wall with their Cajun dead, so to speak.
Thus, this week, it’s imperative the Tigers remember who they are and run the freaking ball. Should they do that while managing to shore up the defense a little, they should cruise, albeit in a hard-fought, physical game. This is a 14.5-point spread, and though LSU was surprised a bit by Washington, Vanderbilt, a conference opponent, shouldn’t be one. Expect a cover, Tigers fans. -What do you think will happen? Leave a comment below, and tell us what you think. Subscribe, and come back all season-
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| Georgia vs. South Carolina, Prediction Preview 2009 Posted: 10 Sep 2009 07:23 PM PDT Georgia vs. South Carolina, Prediction Preview 2009 The undefeated gamecocks will travel to Athens, Ga to take on an unhappy bunch of bulldogs in a SEC opener for both teams. Georgia is coming off a tough loss to Oklahoma State that sent the bulldogs from 13th in the AP poll to 21st. South Carolina squeaked out a 7-3 win in Raleigh. But with this game, records don't matter as this game is always close and seems to shed light on which team will have a better season. It’s been 13 years since Georgia started the season with a losing record and this is the first time since Mark Richt took over that UGa had a losing record for the season, at any point during the season. So trust me when I say…Georgia will be fired up against the Gamecocks! USC will try to open a season with back-to-back road wins for the first time. Last season, Gamecocks quarterback Chris Smelley threw an interception inside the Georgia 10 with 13 seconds left in a 14-7 South Carolina loss. Georgia's 18-0 win in 2006 is the only shutout of Spurrier since he arrived at South Carolina (the only other came at Duke in 1987). The 2007 Gamecocks are the only squad to keep a Richt-coached Bulldogs team out of the end zone.
The offenses for No. 21 Georgia and South Carolina struggled in their openers, combining for 17 points. The Gamecocks (1-0) gained just 256 yards in a 7-3 win over North Carolina State, while the Bulldogs (0-1) had just one more yard in a 24-10 loss to fifth-ranked Oklahoma State. Let's look at this series, which began in 1894, since 2000: 2008/09/13 South Carolina 7 - Georgia 14 South Carolina has won 3 times since 2000. South Carolina is (14-45-2) against Georgia all-time. But most important from the above is the fact that you can see (minus 2003 with the 31-7 beat down) this game is always a close contest since 2000. I feel that 2009 will be no different. Expect a close game. What to watch for….success in this game will be determined by which team has success throwing the ball. Whichever team can air it out and spread the field and allow a balanced attack to transpire, thus leading to ball control and smart play. So look for Spurrier to test the passing game early. Richt will tell his boys much the same as both teams had poor offensive showings in game 1. Look for them to go a little deeper in the playbook in week 2. For Georgia to win…Four main things must go right for them to win: Joe Cox has to be great at moving the ball through the air against a stout USC 'D', the offensive line for UGa must stop a very good defensive front from SC, AJ Green must be a star for the 'dawgs at receiver and the Georgia D must limit Garcia through the air. For Carolina to win…Garcia must have success in the air and deep, the SC offensive line must control the line of scrimmage, USC special teams must execute and the USC Defense must be lights out. What will decide the winner…Two things – 1. Field position – which team controls that aspect and limits the threat then it will lead to a victory. 2. The team that does not "shoot themselves in the foot" and wins the TO game then it leads to a win. This game may not have the most potent offenses coming in but these two teams have 2 of the best defenses in the SEC and if not the nation. This game will come down to who can move the ball effectively, field position, who wins the TO battle, special teams play and who does not mess up. Sounds like a good game is in store… This game in my view is the Gamecocks to lose. I feel Spurrier wants this game badly as it would swirl some "winds" in Athens concerning Richt and his decisions. Spurrier loves to be the catalyst for things like that and what better way to do it then to kick them when they are down. Don't get me wrong as this game will be low scoring but look for the Gamecocks to win by the score of 20-10 due to some timely Georgia turnovers. -What do you think will happen? Leave a comment below, and tell us what you think. Subscribe, and come back all season-
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The end result of this was nothing looked cohesive on that side of the ball, Washington dominated the time of possession (36:52 to 23:08), and Charles Scott and Keiland Williams had a combined 19 carries and no touchdowns. That is not the LSU way of doing things. They did have some big plays in the passing game, but Jefferson never looked particularly comfortable and was not very efficient. They are not a finesse team and shouldn’t try to be one. If anything, they can improve the passing game’s efficiency by running the ball more and making Jefferson even more of a running threat than the eight carries he had last week. As it was, you could tell what was coming based on the formation LSU was in. Shotgun with Williams next to Jefferson was probably some kind of pass. I-formation meant run with Scott. It’s not rocket science (or even high school biology with Les Miles) but that was way, way too predictable last Saturday.
In the past three games between the teams, the Gamecocks and Bulldogs each have just two touchdowns. Spurrier has gone 1-3 against Georgia as the gamecocks coach, his team scoring less than 10 points a game and tallying just three offensive touchdowns in four contests. Neither team has scored more than 20 points in the last six meetings between the schools. And don't expect anything different Saturday. Both coaches are trying to jump start offenses that struggled during the opener without changing things too radically.| You are subscribed to email updates from SEC Football Blogger To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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