Full media predictions:
EAST
Georgia
South Carolina
Florida
Missouri
Kentucky
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
What I find funny about this is that excluding UGA, the other teams ahead of us really as far as total defense and offense standings last year goes weren't exactly world beaters.
We took at least three of those teams to the final minute of the game with a chance to win. The Missouri game is where I believe the team finally gave up on Jones.
Defense rankings last year were as follows
31. UF
44. SC
81. Vols
82. Mizz
91. UK
Our defense was bad, but a lot of that could be put on how piss poor our offense was. Seemed like the defense was on the field a majority of the games we played. Defensively though we're right in there with the rest of the group and with Pruitt's specialty being defense I think we'll see an increase in overall production.
Surprisingly our pass defense allowed only 161.7 ypg, which was third nationally. It's our rush defense that really let us down, we allowed 251.3 ypg, which set us at 125 nationally, and we all know the SEC is more of a running conference, if we can even get that ranking up to mid 60s will make tremendous change for our team.
Now lets look at offensive rankings.
8. Mizz
103. UK
108. SC
109. FL
124. UT
So other than Mizz, the rest of us all sucked on offense last year, and all of us except UK, who is also I believe the only team in the East starting a new QB with NO FBS experience, are bringing in new OCs. This is where I think we'll separate ourselves from at least three of the four above us. We also are bringing in an experienced QB who was pretty good at Stanford. Helton I believe is going to make a good OC, least better than what we had last season.
I get we sucked hard last year, but looking at it objectively there is not a whole lot separating these teams. We get three of the four at home, so I could see if we make even the slightest improvement on both Offense and Defense, mainly Offense, then we could finish as high as second, but I don't see us going no lower than fourth.