The following musings are based on the little bits of various games and recaps I saw from a bar at an elevation of 10k feet.
1. Alabama: Annual version of "is this the greatest assemblage of talent in the history of college football" debate after choke slamming A&M. Nothing will please me more than them losing.
2. Arkansas: They are not good. They are not as good as a bumbling, stumbling Auburn team made them look. Will they slip up and win an SEC game? Magic Eight ball says No.
3. Ole Miss: Hey, we got receivers and a quarterback with one of those Tooliamatoonga names. Will likely battle Arkansas for the bottom of the West barrel. Nobody was excited about a sluggish win over Clark Kent. After documented brawls in the Grove, a big time donor calling out two black female students who came to the game thinking it was Halloween and dressed as strippers (
http://www.wtva.com/content/news/Students-featured-in-Ole-Miss-donors-po-493920781.html ), and getting that ass beaten by the greatest assemblage of talent in the history of college football, their dinky stadium was barely half full on Saturday. They will still beat Mississippi State.
4. Mississippi State: State Troopers in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi cited several thousand fans for littering as they discarded shreds of their ego out car windows along the interstates. Getting junk thumped by Kentucky was a good dose of medicine for a program that thinks above its station. They are what we thought they were.
5. LSU: This is not a good team, despite being ranked fifth. They are barely functioning cavemen and are going to get demolished by the greatest assemblage of talent in the history of football. Among others.
6. Vandy: Still Vandy. Let Notre Dame beat them twice.
7. Florida: Let's get excited over beating the horse piss out of a MAC team. Wait, that was Tennessee? Haha.
8. Tennessee: Good choice in Jeremy Penis as head coach. Any questions about the state of that program can be summed up in the Quart'e Sapp saga. He either did or didn't refuse to go in when asked or not asked and either did or didn't have an altercation with another player on the sidelines during the game.
9. Georgia: The second greatest assemblage of talent in the history of football. I'm not buying Kirby Dumb as the second coming of Saban. Unfortunately, I don't see anybody on that side of the equation who can shut them up. Their dumbass fans think Missouri is vastly underrated. Their game against the Cavemen of the Bayou will be interesting.
10. Kentucky: Was impressed with what I saw. Not ready to buy Wildcat stock, but they are probably the best chance in the East to outlast the second greatest assemblage of talent in the history of college football.
11. Missouri: Nice try, Big 10 team.
12: South Carolina: The battling Muschamps deflated Vandy's balloon, but they're not all that.
13: Texas A&M: I hate Jimbo Fisher. I don't care about this team or any of it's male cheerleading fans. I didn't see any of this game at all, but wish it had been a close game in which both teams and all their coaches were suspended for the remainder of the season.
14. Auburn: I'm not going to hash, rehash and evaluate every position. Suffice it to say this team is more than adequate on defense and an old, drunken orangutan shoving a football up its ass on offense. Stidham has not gotten any better (he's regressed, due to the teachings of the QB murderer, Gus I guess). We're missing a running back Gus can batter into mental and physical ruin. At this point I expect Ole Miss to be a closer game than it should be, MSU to win, A&M to win, Georgia to win, Alabama to win. Given the fact that we have equal or better talent than most of those teams, I'm going to keep doing other things on Saturday.