Some random thoughts.
Georgia
Slow the roll. Beat a Clemson team without Sammie Watkins or Taj Boyd. I hate Dabo and am glad they got their ass beat, but I don't think that's going to be the only ass beating they take this year. Clemson is going to lose four or five games. The ACC is utter seagull piss, probably a worse league than Conference USA but Clemson loses to FSU, NC or NC State, Louisville, S.Carolina and maybe GA Tech. So let's hold off on putting the perennial also-ran Bulldogs at the top of any list.
LSU
Yeah, they came back to win. Wisconsin lost half its defense and the Bengals finally broke some runs. The Badgers went into d'oh mode once they got up by 17 and played like a spastic monkey. LSU wasn't the best team on the field and their quarterback is absolutely awful. He's going to make them wish Jordan Jefferson was still alive before its all over.
Alabama
One of the luckiest teams I've ever seen. Their quarterback is also pretty weak. They won't lose them all, but there are six teams on their schedule capable of beating them (Mississippi State, LSU in the battle of awful quarterbacks, Tennessee, Florida, Texas A&M and Auburn). They won't lose them all, but they're not going to win them all either. ESPN/al.com can keep blowing smoke up their ass all they want, but this is an empire on the verge of crumbling. Nothing lasts forever -- just look at history.
Mississippi State
Slow that roll, too. Yeah they whipped up on Southern Miss. This is a team that lost 61-13 to Marshall last year. Lost 55-14 to North Texas. Lost 41-7 to Florida Atlantic. Went 1-23 over the last two seasons. Ohhh, it was a rivalry game! Yes, in the same way Auburn - UAB or Auburn -Samford is a rivalry game. MSU looked exactly like MSU has looked for the last decade. Big, slow, short of any game changers or real playmakers. They will muddy up some people. They're built to slug it out with teams like LSU, Alabama and Arkansas. They can lean on Ole Miss and possibly beat them. I don't think they can stay with A&M or Auburn. Looked like a four or five loss team to me.
South Carolina
They will get better, but looked a step behind physically and mentally.
A&M
Not sure what to make of the ass whipping they unloaded on South Carolina. They did to the cocks what the hogs thought they were going to do to Auburn. Good game plan, prepared to take what SC gave them. I don't think they can do that week in and week out simply because prep time is diminished. They had a first game mission and I don't think it can be sustained. Don't see them losing many, though. I think they have a chance to skull fuck Alabama and take the shine off that turd, though.
Arkansas
Bert needs to recognize that he doesn't belong in the SEC. I agree with Booger, Arkansas doesn't look substantially improved to me. Auburn was two third and short conversions from laying a 70-7 type beating on their ass. Even when it was 21-21 I wasn't nervous at all. My friend says "wow, its a lot closer than I expected.." and I was all "meh, we got this." Arkansas didn't get Auburn's best game and still left with blood running from its nose and mouth. Which SEC game is that fat bastard going to win with his archaic style of play? A&M? No. Alabama? No. Georgia? No. State? Maybe. LSU? No (similar teams, talent disparity). Ole Miss? Maybe. Missouri? No. Wouldn't surprise me to see them go 0-SEC again. At BEST they win two SEC games. So two in the SEC, a tossup against Texas Tech and probable wins against Nicholls State, UAB and Northern Illinois. Is that enough for the biggest idiot in CFB (Jeff Long, who is coincidentally in charge of the damn Final Four) to keep that bloated butterbutt on the Hog sidelines? Okay by me. Beating their whiny ass is fun.
Ole Miss
They are who we thought they were. Hugh Freeze is Malzahn/Sumlin lite. Bo Wallace is a loser at heart. May pull off a surprising win somewhere. Will probably end the season losing to MSU once again. I was not impressed with their effort against a Petersen-less Boise.
FSU
Not as good as they were -- and really weren't that good last year. Were a QB protect-my-head fumble away from losing to a mediocre OK State team. Problem is, there isn't a single team in the ACC that would have a winning record in the SEC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac-12, Conference USA, MAC or AHSAA 7A Classification. Unlike the rest of the teams in the country, they only have to really prepare for one or two games a year. When they make the Final Four, they won't win it all because it will be the first time in years they've had to play well two weeks in a row.
Ohio State
They suck.
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