I agree with all of Token's answers but #5.
1) No. I think the offensive line, defensive line, and linebackers are far worse than I expected. I hope it can be chalked up to most of these young players in their debut. I hope. I think the special teams are A+ material. I think the recievers, particularly Blake & Stallworth, are very good. Trotter is serviceable at least. Right now, I'm thinking better than Todd, which is as good as anyone could have reasonably expected. Our running game looked like shit, and that was absolutely the fault of terrible blocking. But the only was only out-shittied by the D-Line and LBers. That shit's gotta change stat if we want a shadow of a chance of not getting assraped by MSU next week.
I'm holding out hope that that game can be chocked up to a cocky young team (particularly at the positions I mentioned) thinking they could half-ass it against a WAC bottom-dweller. When they finally realized (practically too late) that they had to actually play some football, it appeared that they did. That's the only real silver lining. They now know they can come back against the odds. Last year's team knew that too, which is what made 28-27 possible.
2)Yes. They're going to lose to SoCar. Once Spurrier lifted his Garcia ban (which was childishly stupid and almost bit him in the ass), they turned it on. This will not go over well. His seat will be blazing in less than a week. One or two more bad losses, and they cut him loose, IMO.
3)Yes. I'm 100% ceratin they'll get to stay home in NOLA for their bowl game, and I'm pretty sure it'll be for the national championship. Their defense is everything I wish ours would remotely resemble. If the polls had any fair fluidity, they would be #1 next week, as they played the toughest opponent of those around the top, and proved the most in doing so. I could even justify putting Boise at #2 for now. But again, with the fluidity I'd like to see, they would get jumped probably next week if Bama beats Penn State.
4)No. In my rants about how I didn't see the vast separation between Auburn & Alabama on paper that every expert appeared to see. Considering what we just saw this weekend, it would appear I did all that bitching for nothing. But taking into consideration my thoughts from answer #1, I'm still not that far off. Bama's got Richardson, and a better than average defense. As I thought before the season started they'll be pretty good, probably better than us. But not 10 spots ahead of us in the whole SEC when all's said and done. I see them finishing 3rd in the west. Possibly even 4th.
5)Unfortunately, yes. Georgia really fucked the SEC, and really the entire college football world with that piss poor showing. I know Boise is supposed to be top notch competition, but I feel pretty confident we beat them this year. As will most of their SEC opponents. Lucky for them, they play us, MSU & Ole Miss in the west. They may beat Ole Miss, but not MSU or us.
But to address the question, this will be the year they finally can't leave Boise out unless they fuck it up themselves. ESPECIALLY if the SEC Champ has a loss, which I feel certain they will. They'll shit the bed in one of the worst championship games we've seen in a while. This was the chance to prove they don't belong with the big boys, and they shit all over that argument. It's really too bad because with TCU and Notre Dame dropping right away, it would have been a relief to not hear a damn word about these shit-tier teams that get undeserved respect all season. We're still gonna get that with Boise, unfortunately.
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