Week Nine SEC Power Poll Ballot: (Cocktail) Party Like It's 1989 Edition
by T Kyle King on Oct 30, 2011 8:53 PM EDT
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PrintWe’re now officially all marking time until next weekend’s SEC West showdown settles, once and for all, the question of which conference team is the best in the league, and in the land. Until that definitive clash occurs, though, this is the best I can do in compiling my SEC Power Poll ballot:
1. Alabama Crimson Tide (8-0 overall, 5-0 SEC): I chose between Alabama and Louisiana State by asking myself, "Which team would I less rather see my team face in the SEC Championship Game?" If, you know, hypothetically, Georgia managed to win the East, somehow.
2. LSU Tigers (8-0, 5-0): Whatever you do, don’t allow yourself to imagine how Les Miles spends an open date. You will officially boggle your mind.
3. South Carolina Gamecocks (7-1, 5-1): Winning with defense in Knoxville strikes me as more impressive than winning with offense in Nashville, and I say that as a fan of a team that has done both this season.
4. Arkansas Razorbacks (7-1, 3-1): Suddenly, I’m not feeling nearly as awful as I did about Georgia’s high-scoring nailbiter against Vanderbilt.
5. Georgia Bulldogs (6-2, 5-1): I know, I know; the Bulldogs still haven’t beaten a Division I-A opponent with a winning record. Just let me enjoy this one for a while, all right?
6. Auburn Tigers (6-3, 4-2): Tied with Ole Miss at halftime at home? Really?
7. Florida Gators (4-4, 2-4): Last Saturday’s loss mathematically eliminated the Gators from contention for the Eastern Division championship. Florida is mired in its first four-game losing streak since 1988. Will Muschamp is the first non-interim Orange and Blue head coach to start out 0-1 against Georgia since Charley Pell. Yep, I’m still enjoying this one.
8. Tennessee Volunteers (3-5, 0-5): Personally, I think those atrocious orange pants are bad luck. Even if they’re not, my word, they’re an eyesore.
9. Mississippi St. Bulldogs (4-4, 1-4): There’s only so much solace to be taken from discovering that you’re better than Kentucky. Honestly, if you lost to Kentucky in Japan, you’d have to kill yourself to restore the lost honor of your ancestors.
10. Vanderbilt Commodores (4-4, 1-4): When a head coach who encourages his athletes to play dirty consistently loses close games, is it proper to call them immoral victories?
11. Mississippi Rebels (2-6, 0-5): Can we arrange for Ole Miss and Tennessee to play one another, and shorten the game to 30 minutes? Because I’d be willing to bet that’d be a heck of a ballgame!
12. Kentucky Wildcats (3-5, 0-4): Urban Meyer thinks this team represents the bottom one per cent of the bottom one per cent.
Naturally, I am still euphoric over the Bulldogs’ victory against the Gators in the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, so the probability is high that my thinking is far from clear. Consequently, I invite your questions and constructive criticisms in the comments below.
Go ‘Dawgs!
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Karma
That horrible hit on the Vandy player isn’t to be celebrated in any sense, but I did immediately get a sense of karma that Franklin’s players are getting hit with the same type of cheap shots he’s coaching them to make.
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This is how much
I dislike James Franklin: I actually hope Florida beat ‘em. I did not just say that. Did I really just say that? I can’t believe I just said that.
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"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
I think Franklin is taking Vandy in the right direction.
His attitude is apparently what the problem is (though admittedly, aside from the showdown with CTG, my knowledge of his issues are secondhand).
Unfortunately, I don't think those two things can be separated.
His attitude of aggression apparently includes teaching his players to play dirty, and the chickens ultimately are going to come home to roost on that one.
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Off topic, but here's a link to vote for Jarvis Jones
for Capital One impact performance of the week:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/feature/index?page=caponecup
Not the most important announcement ever made, but it’s good to give credit where it’s due.
by Swarles_Barkley on Oct 31, 2011 12:27 AM EDT reply actions
Unfortunately...
After posting that link, I just noticed that Case Keenum has 57% of the votes himself.
On a side note, I’m impressed with 9 touchdowns. I really am. But I’m not impressed with the coach’s decision to leave him in the game to do it. It’s uncalled for to run up the score, passing when you’re up by, you know, 6 touchdowns already. Also, what if he had gotten hurt? ESPN and company would be dragging his coach under the bus for the rest of the season.
by Swarles_Barkley on Oct 31, 2011 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions
It really is amazing how our schedule worked out this year.
We get every team from 6-12 on that list and only got South Carolina from above us (and that was at home).
If we had a better team, we’d have had a Boise-ish season where all we had to do was win one real game (I’m still not counting Boise…UGA at full potential should beat Boise State 9 times out of 10) to play in the MNC. Too bad we’re going to squander this schedule on a nice trip to Tampa or Orlando for New Year’s.
Your complaining? We have a boat load of underclassmen, coming off a losing season, and look to have 10 wins.
That’s as good as a rebuilding year as you’re going to get 90% of the time. A New Years Day bowl would be a great accomplishment considering a 2 loss start, maddening special teams and an irratic offense.
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by tankertoad on Oct 31, 2011 12:52 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Uh...
Orlando and Tampa are much nicer than Memphis or Shreveport in January.
And, heck, if we play our cards right, we may end up in Nawlins! (Not likely, but, as tankertoad points out below, for this team, it’s pretty darn exciting.)
"Don't go ninja'n nobody that don't need ninja'n!" ~ Kung Fu Hillbilly.
I can't imagine it not being
LSU/Bama winner :BCS Game in New Orleans
LSU/Bama loser: Sugar Bowl
That’s all the SEC gets, since it’s the max 2 for the BCS. That’d leave us in the Citrus or the Outback. With the other taking South Carolina.
http://sportsandgrits.com/
The ending up in NOLA involves us winning the SEC
Also, there’s a very rare (as in never gonna happen) situation where three teams from one conference go to the BCS. If #1 and #2 are from the same conference but don’t win their conference, then #1, #2, and the conference winner all go. Given how much some in the media have been pushing a rematch no matter what, I wouldn’t put it past them to try and get a LSU/Bama rematch if we somehow sneak in and win the SEC. Neither scenarios are that likely. If we make it to the SECCG, I would put it at 90-95% likely that we would lose that game. The three team scenario requires a confluence of events that would make 2007 look normal by comparison.
As for likely bowl games, assuming us winning out, I kinda want the Cotton Bowl (if it’s possible; I don’t think they’re required to pick a West team). I know, of Capitol One/Outback/Cotton, it’s the least likely, but I can’t help but think the Capitol One might pick Arky with the first bid, leaving us with Cotton or Outback.
The 984 Has Spoken!
if memory serves
outback somehow manages to pick before cap 1 and they almost always make an odd choice – as in not choosing the next best SEC team.
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I hate the Outback Bowl.
It’s been screwing up the bowl selection process since the late ’90s. We need to dump them and bring in a real bowl game.
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I support that if it gives us a Pac-12 match up
I would love to have a SEC/Pac-12 bowl game. The only way such a game happens now is meeting in the BCS. I want an annual cross-country bowl game with them.
The 984 Has Spoken!
I would be happy to attend the rose bowl. )
Editor, Dawgsports.com. "The ball ain't heavy." Herschel Walker
by tankertoad on Oct 31, 2011 8:39 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
No way that happens
I’ll say it now. Even if we somehow both make the SEC C, and come out strong with a half time lead (all about as likely as me dumping out a solid gold brick from my rectum this evening), expect about a dozen holding calls in the second half neutering every offensive play, and a couple suspect pass int/defensive holding/late QB hits to give them the game. The SEC ain’t gonna risk killing the cash cow of a possible 6th straight national title.
http://sportsandgrits.com/
by Mr. Sanchez on Oct 31, 2011 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Division 1A School with a winning record?
Wasn’t FU 4-3 heading in the Cocktail Party? Doesn’t that count as a D1 program with a winning record? Wait…what? They are 4-4 now? How did that happen? Oh yeah, that’s how! SUCK IT GATORS!
Know thy enemy...
by CoachSpurlock on Oct 31, 2011 9:44 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Yeah...
It’s odd, for in my mind, you can’t count the loss suffered to the Dawgs against the Dawgs. Thus, mentally, I subtract all losses (and wins as is the case with South Carolina and Boise State) against the Dawgs from each opponent’s record.
Doing this, Florida, Miss. State, and Vandy all have winning records against teams not named UGA.
"Don't go ninja'n nobody that don't need ninja'n!" ~ Kung Fu Hillbilly.
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