re: Predict the final placings of each team in the SEC East & West.

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What SEC losses are you predicting for UGA?

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You're probably gonna rip me a new one for this. Sorry in advance.

I predicted Florida, Tennessee, Ole Miss, and Auburn as losses for Georgia.

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EAST

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UF
Tenn
Georgia
Mizzou
S. Car
Vandy
Kentucky

West
Bama
TX AM
Arky
Ole Miss
LSU
MSU
Auburn

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A team who has lost their last 10 of 12 SEC games and 8 of 10 against UGA

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It's not hard to believe an upset could be brewing with an Auburn team that's got a solid defense vs. a team that had trouble putting up points against Nichols. Georgia has struggled these past two weeks with ugly wins, which in my opinion makes it at least justified to go with Auburn for an upset when ugly wins turn into ugly losses. I'm not saying that it's going to happen for sure, but I'd say that would be a risky bet I would take if I were a betting man based off of what I've seen these three weeks of football from these two teams.

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UF
Tenn
Georgia
Mizzou
S. Car
Vandy
Kentucky

West
Bama
TX AM
Arky
Ole Miss
LSU
MSU
Auburn

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somebody got it right,,,UF going 11-1-0 losing only to the razorbacks

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"Down year" for the SEC and you have LSU losing 5 games with a veteran team?

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A veteran team doesn't mean anything if the said veteran team is one of two things: not well-coached or not talented enough. One or the other is going on right now with this LSU team.

The team to me looks like they lack discipline. They started with such a high position in the AP Poll just to surrender the positioning to Wisconsin. A decent win against Jacksonville St. and a scare vs. Mississippi State just shows that this team is most likely going to have some issues when they face teams of a higher-caliber, unless improvement is made and made quick.

As I've mentioned, premature predictions like these are often incorrect because they don't factor in turn-a-round seasons for teams that struggle early on. You have a hard time giving teams wins when they haven't looked that impressive yet.

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What they are saying is you have Arkansas at 9-3 overall and 6-2 in the SEC. That means Arkansas loses an OOC game and they have already won 2 of them. The only one left is Alcorn State.

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Maybe he thinks that Alcorn will pull a Toledo?

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I agree with what you're saying, but this same team won 9 games last year. You're saying they got that much worse? If you watched the MS state game, it really wasn't a scare. We dominated the entire game. A fumble and an onside kick changed the outcome. Pretty much the same thing happened 2 years ago against state, where we were dominated all game and came back in the end to make the score look better. Not one person said, "state barley got by LSU". IMO, LSU is very close to being a great team.

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Teams that are said to be good can change that drastically. South Carolina 2013-2014 is a great example of that. Somewhere a long the line you lose a couple of players, the coaches start to slouch and suddenly you have a completely different looking situation. Of course I don't want it to sound like LSU magically sucks now or anything, because I do believe that they have a good team. I just don't know if they're going to be as good as last year yet. Leonard Fornette and the running game as a whole is a big concern for me when looking at LSU, specifically if a repeat of late last season will occur where the running game is stopped and LSU is left exposed by a defense. So far Fornette hasn't been as impressive early on as he was last year, so one has to wonder if he's truly got it in him to lead a winning LSU team on the ground. Maybe I read too much into it, maybe not. As for the MSU game, I was starting to feel pretty scared for y'all, so that's why I felt it was a scare. It got a little closer than it should have is really what I mean.

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I think half of this is due to him being injured and the other half is due to us being more successful in our passing game. Etling is no Elway, but he is throwing the ball more accurately than Harris.

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I wonder if LSU will build more of their game plan going forward around their passing attack as well as if Etling will continue having this same success. It'll be interesting to see. With Fornette questionable, it's gotta be something they can turn to at a moment's notice.

I wouldn't blame LF7 for the unproductive LSU offense, rather I would blame the utter predictability of that offense. Even the much maligned Land Shart defense can slow or shut down an offense based around LF run right, LF run left, LF run up the middle.

My concern, if I was LSU, is that they still have Alabama and Arkansas on the schedule. Bama is scary because they are Bama and Arkansas is basically built to beat teams exactly like LSU. Add in Florida, the potential for Ole Miss to play 4 quarters of a game, and an improved A&M defense and that is a real gauntlet to walk through.