This past Saturday we saw number one fall again...even though it was the BCS and not the team voted by the pollsters as number one. A Fig Newton is the difference between the battle of the Tigers. Cheese heads invade the corn field. SEC East is beginning to look a lot like the ACC. South gets its best win yet.
First lets start out with how awful Alabama has looked the past couple of games until the second half of the Tennessee game. If your Alabama and you are playing an under-sized and under maned Tennessee squad, you would think that you would be able to run the football against them with little trouble, right? Well the first half of the Third Saturday in October seemed liked Alabama just forgot how to run block and that Julio was the only player who was playing. Yes teams are keying in on the run because who would not when you have two great runners but its not them getting yards, it is that there seemed to be no blocking. For the past couple of games it has seemed like the opposition has keyed in on where Alabama likes to run it and how they are going to do it. Of course having a bye week before helps but Alabama should be making adjustments. We will see if they make any adjustments as they have a bye week this week before playing LSU in two weeks.
Well Missouri shocked the nation and beat Oklahoma this past Saturday. Missouri had lost seven straight and by a combined twenty-five points, so people getting them little chance to win was not so surprising. Missouri seem to follow the same game plan Wisconsin last week pulled off against Ohio State. Missouri got the ball rolling by returning the opening kick-off for a touchdown, then they attacked Oklahoma and did not let off the pedal and their defense stepped up and shut down Oklahoma's offense, which is not too shabby. So that made three straight weeks number one went down on the road against ranked opponents.
Of course with Oklahoma losing, Auburn had a chance to help themselves in the BCS. Well they went out and gave Cam Newton the ball and said here you go son do this again for us. And did he ever while during the game he eclipsed the SEC rushing record by a quarterback in a single season with four games to play in the regular season. But we all know about Cam Newton for Auburn, how about we talk about one of Auburns other stud in Nick Fairly. Did you seem him just play with the LSU offensive line? It was like they were just cardboard cut-outs filling in for real players. Nick Fairly is the reason Auburn was able to hold LSU to a minimum. Even though i don't think the LSU offense completed a pass all day but Fairly just put his hand down and shot straight forward through the gaps all day and had his way with the LSU offensive line.
The battle of the Big Ten got a little more clearer with Wisconsin's win over Iowa. Of course Wisconsin beat Ohio State last weekend and kept its Big ten conference championship hopes alive by beating the Hawkeyes this weekend. Now they will be rooting for Iowa as they take on undefeated Michigan State team, who controls its own destiny and doesn't have to play Ohio State either.
If Vanderbilt would have beaten South Carolina this past weekend then they would have controlled their own destiny on getting to the SEC Championship game....yes Vanderbilt would have represented the East if they won out...let that sink in. That is how crazy the SEC East is this year. No one wants to win it and are just trying to give it away, seems like a mini ACC. Georgia has been on a winning streak of late and if they beat Florida this weekend in Jacksonville, they have a good shot on coming back and winning the east. But ultimately if South Carolina wins out then they will win the east, if they are able to win out.
South Alabama went out west to play fun in the sun. South took on there toughest opponent to date and there toughest road contest as well and played well enough to win. South Alabama continues to improve and show that they are for real and are ready for the real schedule next year when they start playing Div 1-A opponents. South Alabama is for real people, i know its hard for anyone outside of Mobile to be able to take that seriously but its the truth. South will be fine when they finally transition to the full Div 1-A schedule, and should contend for a conference championship their first year. Next up they welcome Georgia State into Ladd. If you havent been reading the recruiting boards, you want to start this week as GSU fans are not at all impressed with the Jaguars and said they are "babied" and are no match against the Panthers.
Games to look forward to next week: Oregon vs USC, South vs Georgia State, Nebraska vs Missouri, Florida vs Georgia in Jacksonville
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