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re: Brandon Marcello - Bold Predictions for the SEC in 2026
Posted on 4/15/26 at 10:26 am to Landmass
Posted on 4/15/26 at 10:26 am to Landmass
Brandon Marcello knows his stuff. Like last year...here are his predictions vs the actual outcome:
Team - Prediction - Actual Regular Season Outcome
Texas - 1st - 6th tied (Way Off)
Georgia - 2nd - 1st Tied (Pretty Close)
Alabama - 3rd - 1st Tied (Pretty Close)
LSU 4th - 10th (Way Off)
Florida 5th - 11th tied (Way Off)
Missouri 6th - 8th (Pretty Close)
Tennessee 7th - 8th tied (Pretty Close)
South Carolina 8th - 13th tied (Way Off)
Ole Miss 9th - 1st Tied (Way Off)
Auburn 10th - 13th tied (Pretty Close)
aTm 11th - 1st Tied (Way Off)
Oklahoma 12th - 6th tied (Way Off)
Arkansas 13th - 16th (Pretty Close)
MSU 14th - 13th tied (Pretty Close)
Kentucky 15th - 11th tied (Quite a bit off)
Vandy 16th - 8th tied (Way Off)
He was pretty close on 7 of his 16 predictions...or 44%.
For perspective...in the last 5 NFL regular seasons there has only been 1 QB who completed less than 45% of his passes. In 2022, Anthony Brown completed 44.9% of his passes. If Marcello would be just a little bit better this year, he could be the Anthony Brown of Preseason SEC Predictions.
Team - Prediction - Actual Regular Season Outcome
Texas - 1st - 6th tied (Way Off)
Georgia - 2nd - 1st Tied (Pretty Close)
Alabama - 3rd - 1st Tied (Pretty Close)
LSU 4th - 10th (Way Off)
Florida 5th - 11th tied (Way Off)
Missouri 6th - 8th (Pretty Close)
Tennessee 7th - 8th tied (Pretty Close)
South Carolina 8th - 13th tied (Way Off)
Ole Miss 9th - 1st Tied (Way Off)
Auburn 10th - 13th tied (Pretty Close)
aTm 11th - 1st Tied (Way Off)
Oklahoma 12th - 6th tied (Way Off)
Arkansas 13th - 16th (Pretty Close)
MSU 14th - 13th tied (Pretty Close)
Kentucky 15th - 11th tied (Quite a bit off)
Vandy 16th - 8th tied (Way Off)
He was pretty close on 7 of his 16 predictions...or 44%.
For perspective...in the last 5 NFL regular seasons there has only been 1 QB who completed less than 45% of his passes. In 2022, Anthony Brown completed 44.9% of his passes. If Marcello would be just a little bit better this year, he could be the Anthony Brown of Preseason SEC Predictions.
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Posted on 4/15/26 at 10:42 am to Landmass
That guy needs to stick to jazz music.
Posted on 4/15/26 at 11:15 am to Landmass
Ole Miss will go 7-5 next year and 5-7 in 2027 now that Lane can’t carry that program anymore.
Posted on 4/15/26 at 12:16 pm to Buckeye06
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Sark was a bounce or two away from winning it in 2024 against OSU.
I'm not sure we watched the same game. At no point during that game did I get the feeling that "we're going to win this". Sark has just been outmatched in games like that since he got here, other than the Alabama game. Still don't know how he won that one.
At least we don't have the annual Georgia loss on our schedule this season.
Posted on 4/15/26 at 12:18 pm to Gifman
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Gifman
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Ole Miss will go...
Just like clockwork...
Posted on 4/15/26 at 2:15 pm to Landmass
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Tennessee - goes .500
Josh Heupel came close to going .500 at UT his first year when he finished 7-6...should have won the Music City Bowl over Purdue and gone 8-5...but it is what it is. That 7-6 season is the closest he has ever come to a .500 season in his career as a head coach.
Tennessee's opponents this season include:
Furman - FCS team that went 6-6 last year
Georgia Tech - ACC team that went 9-4 last year, but lost 4 of their last 5 games.
Kennesaw State - CUSA Team that went 10-4 last year with the 112th rated SOS in FBS.
Arkansas - Finished 2-10 last year
South Carolina - Finished 4-8 last year
Kentucky (at Home) - Finished 5-7 Last year (has beaten Tennessee 3 times in the last 40 years). Tennessee gets them after a bye week.
For the first time since 1991, Tennessee doesn't play the trifecta of Georgia, Florida and Alabama. They only play Bama this year.
Here are the seasons where Tennessee has only played 1 of those 3 in the regular season over the last 50 years.
1) 1987
2) 1986
3) 1983
4) 1982
5) 1979
6) 1978
This will be the 7th time since Johnny Majors' first season coaching at UT (1977) that this has happened.
Posted on 4/15/26 at 2:17 pm to Landmass
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Mizzou makes the CFP
Posted on 4/15/26 at 2:36 pm to Landmass
Tennessee is probably going to.500
We are not doing another year of this Mateer Heisman talk, he fricking sucks
Mizzou
We are not doing another year of this Mateer Heisman talk, he fricking sucks
Mizzou
Posted on 4/15/26 at 3:19 pm to Landmass
Bold BS - anybody can throw crap against the wall
Posted on 4/15/26 at 3:28 pm to Gifman
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Ole Miss will go 7-5 next year and 5-7 in 2027 now that Lane can’t carry that program anymore.
Posted on 4/15/26 at 8:07 pm to Landmass
None of that is happening. Especially Utrans winning a natty. They’ll be 3-2 in their first 5 games.
Posted on 4/15/26 at 10:11 pm to madmaxvol
Marcello is a former MSU beat guy which makes his Ole Miss prediction about as surprising as corn in my shite after a crawfish boil
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Rebel fans will party late into the night on the square, but it won't last in October. The middle of the schedule includes landmines with road trips to Florida and Texas, before Auburn and Georgia come to town in back-to-back weeks. Then a trip to Oklahoma follows that. We're fading the Rebels after a hot start.
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