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re: 2013 SEC strength of schedule
Posted on 2/19/13 at 9:24 am to AlaTiger
Posted on 2/19/13 at 9:24 am to AlaTiger
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But, Alabama should have a great team nonetheless. It is just a shame that we will only see them even challenged one time all year.
That's the by-product of having a great team. There are only a handful of teams that can challenge you. Even if you remove Kentucky from Alabama's schedule and replace them with a scary name like Georgia or Florida, that doesn't necessarily mean those games will be tough. Georgia and Florida lose a lot on the defensive side of the ball. Both teams will take a huge step back next year. So...even with one of those two teams replacing Kentucky...Alabama will still probably only be challenged once or twice all season long.
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Posted on 2/19/13 at 9:26 am to Beer Bryant
Posted on 2/19/13 at 9:26 am to AlaTiger
We really don't know how good Arkansas, AU or UT will be this year. We do know that all three abnormally sucked last year at the same time. I seriously doubt we see that again. All 3 teams should make a Bowl game this year.
LSU didn't lose a lot of starters, but they lost a lot of quality depth.
LSU didn't lose a lot of starters, but they lost a lot of quality depth.
Posted on 2/19/13 at 9:28 am to Beer Bryant
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Aug. 31 Virginia Tech (Atlanta)
Sept. 7 Bye Week
Sept. 14 at Texas A&M
Sept. 21 Colorado State
Sept. 28 Ole Miss
Oct. 5 Georgia State
Oct. 12 at Kentucky
Oct. 19 Arkansas
Oct. 26 Tennessee
Nov. 2 Bye Week
Nov. 9 LSU
Nov. 16 at Mississippi State
Nov. 23 Chattanooga
Nov. 30 at Auburn
Saban with an extra week to prepare for both regular season games Bama has the highest chance to possibly lose (A&M and LSU).
Not even mad, that's just hilarious.
Posted on 2/19/13 at 9:29 am to Beer Bryant
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We really don't know how good Arkansas, AU or UT will be this year. We do know that all three abnormally sucked last year at the same time. I seriously doubt we see that again. All 3 teams should make a Bowl game this year.
Arkansas will struggle because they are installing a brand new offense that doesn't suit them just yet. Tennessee does not have the horses to compete against the big boys for four quarters, at least not yet. Auburn is the only enigma of the three because, while last year's team was bad, I have a hard time believing they were THAT bad.
Posted on 2/19/13 at 9:33 am to RollTide1987
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Arkansas will struggle because they are installing a brand new offense that doesn't suit them just yet.
We should probably wait and actually see what offense they install before making these conclusions.
Posted on 2/19/13 at 9:35 am to TheCheshireHog
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We should probably wait and actually see what offense they install before making these conclusions.
Well...given the fact that Bret Bielema ran the same offense every season he was at Wisconsin, I highly doubt he will stick to Bobby Petrino's old playbook in 2013.
Posted on 2/19/13 at 9:40 am to RollTide1987
All three teams have good enough players to beat the best teams in the Conference. Maybe not consistently, but good enough to win. Coaching was the problem with all 3 teams.
Posted on 2/19/13 at 9:41 am to TheCheshireHog
quote:said every single a&m fan this past off season when this board was convinced wed only run strict air raid
We should probably wait and actually see what offense they install before making these conclusions.
Posted on 2/19/13 at 9:41 am to RollTide1987
Of course they wont but he also went out and hired Chaney from Tennessee who is known to love to throw the ball more than Petrino. We could line up and run that offsense this season without skipping a beat. There would be a terminology change but scheme and personnel wise it is very similar to what we ran under Petrino.
Bielema has said numerous times since he's been hired that he knows we can't run the "Wisconsin offense" right now because we don't have the personnel on campus to do it yet. I imagine we'll see a mixture of the two schemes out of the gate and then trend towards more power football as the years go by. My best guess would be that our offense scheme/formation wise will look more like the '11 Wisconsin or '10 Arkansas teams. Bouncing back and forth between spread and power looks like those two teams did.
Bielema has said numerous times since he's been hired that he knows we can't run the "Wisconsin offense" right now because we don't have the personnel on campus to do it yet. I imagine we'll see a mixture of the two schemes out of the gate and then trend towards more power football as the years go by. My best guess would be that our offense scheme/formation wise will look more like the '11 Wisconsin or '10 Arkansas teams. Bouncing back and forth between spread and power looks like those two teams did.
This post was edited on 2/19/13 at 9:49 am
Posted on 2/19/13 at 9:42 am to WestCoastAg
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We should probably wait and actually see what offense they install before making these conclusions.
said every single a&m fan this past off season when this board was convinced wed only run strict air raid
This.
Posted on 2/19/13 at 9:58 am to Beer Bryant
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We really don't know how good Arkansas, AU or UT will be this year. We do know that all three abnormally sucked last year at the same time. I seriously doubt we see that again. All 3 teams should make a Bowl game this year.
LSU didn't lose a lot of starters, but they lost a lot of quality depth.
LSU lost starters that were really good but trailed off at the end of the season in many regards. We return something like 33 of 44 of the 2 deep. New depth is coming in and will be very talented, but raw.
It was the starters on defense that will hurt the most. All of the backups are back and LSU rotates guys like crazy on defense anyway.
Every year, SEC fans say that LSU's defense will be worse than the year before and won't keep LSU in games. Every year for the past several years, everyone is proven wrong.
It is interesting though. When LSU fans say that the offense will be better because we return 9 starters, almost the whole offensive line, a 5th year starting QB, and have a new OC with a couple of big receivers coming in - one, a very talented JC 4 star, everyone says, "Yeah, yeah, we hear that every year and LSU's offense stays bad no matter who is playing."
Fair enough.
But, when LSU loses 6 starters on defense and LSU fans say that Chavis has new guys ready to go and we will be good yet again, past history of reloading and having a top 10 defense every year no matter who we lose is thrown out and the consensus is that LSU's defense will not be any good and LSU will lose 4-5 games at least.
Think about the logic there. If it is negative for LSU it is accepted as fact. If it is positive, it is thrown out as fantasy - no matter what past history proves.
I think some opposing SEC fans are going to be surprised when LSU is just as good as it has been the past several years and is competing for an SEC title into November - if not winning it.
Posted on 2/19/13 at 11:29 am to Beer Bryant
We have an easy schedule every year because we don't play anyone OOC and OOS. 
This post was edited on 2/19/13 at 11:30 am
Posted on 2/19/13 at 11:29 am to RollTide1987
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That's the by-product of having a great team. There are only a handful of teams that can challenge you.
And Alabama only has to play two of them because they're in the same division. With a bye week before each.
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Even if you remove Kentucky from Alabama's schedule and replace them with a scary name like Georgia or Florida, that doesn't necessarily mean those games will be tough. Georgia and Florida lose a lot on the defensive side of the ball. Both teams will take a huge step back next year. So...even with one of those two teams replacing Kentucky...Alabama will still probably only be challenged once or twice all season long.
What?
Posted on 2/19/13 at 11:34 am to RollTide1987
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That's the by-product of having a great team.
Jesus H. Christ
Posted on 2/19/13 at 11:40 am to wadewilson
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What?
Georgia and Florida lose a lot on the defensive side of the ball. Both teams will take a huge step back next year. So...even with one of those two teams replacing Kentucky...Alabama will still probably only be challenged once or twice all season long.
Could you hear me that time?
Posted on 2/19/13 at 11:44 am to stat19
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Our roughest game is TAMU
Posted on 2/19/13 at 11:45 am to RollTide1987
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Georgia and Florida lose a lot on the defensive side of the ball. Both teams will take a huge step back next year. So...even with one of those two teams replacing Kentucky...Alabama will still probably only be challenged once or twice all season long.
So, I'm to believe that Tennessee and Kentucky offer a challenge equal to what Georgia and Florida do?
Obviously, the people who ranked the strength of schedule don't support that.
Posted on 2/19/13 at 12:45 pm to stat19
Our roughest game is TAMU
Yeah ok.....keep thinking that
Yeah ok.....keep thinking that
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