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Could opening week go REALLY bad for the SEC this year?
Posted on 7/4/17 at 5:33 am
Posted on 7/4/17 at 5:33 am
Arkansas, Mississippi State, Ole Miss and Mizzou will be easy wins,
Vanderbilt and Kentucky are playing cream puffs, but they're on the road and they're Vandy and Kentucky,
Auburn and Georgia are playing notorious spoilers (Georgia Southern and App St.),
Those are the 8 "easy" season openers, but It's entirely possible that the SEC could lose every other one.
S. Carolina and NC St. is a coin flip, Florida-Michigan is tough to call, FSU is loaded and can absolutely play with or beat Bama, especially in week 1, and BYU has pulled some week 1 upsets before and we all saw what happened to LSU against Wisconsin last year.
Then A&M goes to UCLA, which won't be easy, and Tennessee plays an option team on a neutral site against Georgia tech.
It's totally possible that the SEC drops 6+ games that weekend.
Everybody better bring their top shite because we do NOT need that after the Bowl season last year.
We need to remind college football who their daddy is
Vanderbilt and Kentucky are playing cream puffs, but they're on the road and they're Vandy and Kentucky,
Auburn and Georgia are playing notorious spoilers (Georgia Southern and App St.),
Those are the 8 "easy" season openers, but It's entirely possible that the SEC could lose every other one.
S. Carolina and NC St. is a coin flip, Florida-Michigan is tough to call, FSU is loaded and can absolutely play with or beat Bama, especially in week 1, and BYU has pulled some week 1 upsets before and we all saw what happened to LSU against Wisconsin last year.
Then A&M goes to UCLA, which won't be easy, and Tennessee plays an option team on a neutral site against Georgia tech.
It's totally possible that the SEC drops 6+ games that weekend.
Everybody better bring their top shite because we do NOT need that after the Bowl season last year.
We need to remind college football who their daddy is
This post was edited on 7/4/17 at 5:36 am
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Posted on 7/4/17 at 6:12 am to BranchDawg
People said the same thing last year and the SEC did fine.
With most teams playing tougher non-conference opponents in the opening week, that's just gonna be the new landscape of college football. All conferences run the risk of perhaps having a terrible opening week and catching bad PR from it.
It's a long season though.
With most teams playing tougher non-conference opponents in the opening week, that's just gonna be the new landscape of college football. All conferences run the risk of perhaps having a terrible opening week and catching bad PR from it.
It's a long season though.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 6:55 am to BranchDawg
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Everybody better bring their top shite because we do NOT need that after the Bowl season last year
LSU did its part. Can't say the same for some other people.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 8:07 am to Lacour
It's sad that your life revolves around what 18-22 year olds do on a football field in the fall.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 8:23 am to Sid E Walker
Whoa dude.
He's just talking football and centering a topic around this board's mutual interest.
He's just talking football and centering a topic around this board's mutual interest.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 8:36 am to BranchDawg
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Arkansas, Mississippi State, Ole Miss and Mizzou will be easy wins,
since when are early season games by these teams "easy wins" for them?
Posted on 7/4/17 at 8:37 am to BranchDawg
Go Gators...frick the rest of y'all.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 8:42 am to East Coast Band
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since when are early season games by these teams "easy wins" for them?
Because they're playing Florida A&M, Charleston Southern, South Alabama and Missouri State.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 10:00 am to BranchDawg
Wisconsin is a lot better than byu. That wasn't an upset
Posted on 7/4/17 at 11:41 am to Sid E Walker
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It's sad that your life revolves around what 18-22 year olds do on a football field in the fall.
Says the Bama fan
Posted on 7/4/17 at 11:53 am to BranchDawg
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t's totally possible that the SEC drops 6+ games that weekend.
No doubt there are some games that could go either way.
I still think the SEC will more of those openeing week games than they lose.
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Everybody better bring their top shite because we do NOT need that after the Bowl season last year.
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We need to remind college football who their daddy is
I still say that when the year was over that the SEC would've beaten any other conference in a round robin in 2016....ACC included. Duke, Syracuse, and Virginia were weaker than any SEC team last year.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 12:03 pm to BranchDawg
Never count out FSU. They are talented and not afraid of the SEC. I think Alabama will win, but FSU will make them earn it.
UCLA could easily beat A&M, but they usually play well early in the season.
UT should stomp a mud hole in GT unless their defense plays with zero discipline. Since they aren't Georgia, I don't think that'll happen.
Florida vs Michigan is a coin flip IMO. Michigan has the more experienced QB, but no experience around him. UF has no QB, but a ton of experience.
SEC has been tops for a while, but let's face it, the coaching in the league is a big step down from where it was just 7-10 years ago. THE SEC run of dominance is over.
It's Alabama and no one else.
UCLA could easily beat A&M, but they usually play well early in the season.
UT should stomp a mud hole in GT unless their defense plays with zero discipline. Since they aren't Georgia, I don't think that'll happen.
Florida vs Michigan is a coin flip IMO. Michigan has the more experienced QB, but no experience around him. UF has no QB, but a ton of experience.
SEC has been tops for a while, but let's face it, the coaching in the league is a big step down from where it was just 7-10 years ago. THE SEC run of dominance is over.
It's Alabama and no one else.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 12:38 pm to BranchDawg
quote:Didn't they lose their OC? (Tech, that is.)
and Tennessee plays an option team on a neutral site against Georgia tech.
This post was edited on 7/4/17 at 12:39 pm
Posted on 7/4/17 at 12:55 pm to Lacour
quote:Yeah, and Wisconsin kicked their asses on opening day last year, too.
LSU did its part. Can't say the same for some other people.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 1:05 pm to BranchDawg
Maybe I'm just basing my fears off of State, but I'm kinda scared of South Alabama. They were solid last year
Posted on 7/4/17 at 1:10 pm to BranchDawg
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Mississippi State
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Opening week
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Easy win
Uh-oh
This post was edited on 7/4/17 at 1:14 pm
Posted on 7/4/17 at 1:10 pm to OldRebYeller
the sec should do really well the first weekend
Posted on 7/4/17 at 1:23 pm to slayerxing
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UCLA could easily beat A&M
They could. If a team that lost 10 starters off a 4-8 squad beats A&M, it could and should accelerate Kevin Sumlin's departure, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 1:23 pm to BranchDawg
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Florida-Michigan
I will be their biggest fan that day
Still a little salty over the series being cancelled.
This post was edited on 7/4/17 at 1:24 pm
Posted on 7/4/17 at 1:47 pm to slayerxing
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SEC has been tops for a while, but let's face it, the coaching in the league is a big step down from where it was just 7-10 years ago. THE SEC run of dominance is over.
It's Alabama and no one else.
The conference has slipped but I still say that it was the best conference in 2016 top to bottom. Coaching down? You're assuming that Smart's a step down from Richt. That remains to be seen. Same with Orgeron & Miles. Time will tell. As for your point about Alabama and no one else......Well in 2016 the Pac-12 was Washington and no one else. The ACC was Clemson and no one else. The Big 12 was Oklahoma and no one else. You could say that about any conference.
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