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After watching the SEC today, UT can beat Mississippi State, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Vanderbilt.

Not saying they will, but this team can beat those teams and only one of those is a road game.

This year the top half of the conference is really, really good.

The bottom half of the conference is hot garbage and teams 7-14 could all beat one another on just about any given Saturday.
 
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SLICKYINC said:
If you’ve read any of my posts you’d know where I stand on the subject of JG. We don’t have a answer at QB, at all.
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Eh. You know what you have have with JG in this offense. None of us really know about the other 2. Give me them a chance to take full starter reps and see if you feel any different.
 
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volfaninpa said:
After watching the SEC today, UT can beat Mississippi State, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Vanderbilt.

Not saying they will, but this team can beat those teams and only one of those is a road game.

This year the top half of the conference is really, really good.

The bottom half of the conference is hot garbage and teams 7-14 could all beat one another on just about any given Saturday.
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Would love to get Maurer or Shrout going. It could be the difference.
 
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Clemson is beatable. Bama is hurting a bit on defense. Pray neither wins, nor does uga. Go...Sooners? Im down to hating every great team but them right now
 
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Just curious how many top programs right now aren't spread, strong rpo, with some qb running?

I count only 1.

And running out of spread is a thing of beauty. OU is perfecting it like Art Briles began to do at Baylor.
 
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Devo182 said:
Just curious how many top programs right now aren't spread, strong rpo, with some qb running?

I count only 1.

And running out of spread is a thing of beauty. OU is perfecting it like Art Briles began to do at Baylor.
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Seems like every team in the country is running it and most don’t have good enough QBs to be successful.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
Yep, in fact, I’d say one of Tennessee’s main problems is that we don’t have our Scott Frost.

It would have been nice to hand this thing off to our young hotshot alumnus at some point over the last decade.

Frost is going to get it done - and he has the blank check to take as long as it needs.
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We will see how well this ages. There is evidence that he is a good coach but he also has not been a head coach at this level. I tend to agree but he has been pretty mediocre at Nebraska to this point.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
Would love to get Maurer or Shrout going. It could be the difference.
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Agreed.

It's a really good chance JG is in his last year here and even if he was coming back it would take a monumental shift in play to trot him back out there next year.

They may start him against UGA just to allow the game to settle in a little bit before throwing one of them out there. But they need to give both of them the last 3 quarters and then start one against State and hope.

They are different QBs I wouldnt have an issue playing both if you re getting some positives.

Need to beat UAB.
UK and Vandy are both bad, if he drops both of them they could fire him and I wouldnt care nor object.

SC and State are winnable at home.

Mizzou looks to have found their footing a little bit. Hard to see that happening.

Get to 5 and you can save a little face after a horrible start.
 
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nicksjuzunk said:
Bama
Clemson
Oklahoma
OSU
UGA

114 sacks of potatoes
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Yep. The first 4 have planted themselves as givens every year. UGA is probably there now too. Most these teams don’t even have to win the conference, and one loss doesn’t exclude them like most other teams.

The most interesting thing every year at this point is which Washington, ND, AU, or LSU will make it in to lose in the semi’s.
 
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HankHill said:
Eh. You know what you have have with JG in this offense. None of us really know about the other 2. Give me them a chance to take full starter reps and see if you feel any different.
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They haven't taken advantage like Dobbs did coming in backup vs the worst possible opponent in Alabama and grabbed ahold without question. Or Bray doing similar in backup minutes. These 2 have been given shots vs lowly utc and then maurer vs uf. I don't see how they are rewarded with starting after those performances.

Hope they get another shot, but dang they have to do like past emerging QBs and take the reigns through strong performances. They can't expect more play because others aren't performing up to standard either. They have to raise the bar.
 
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rjd970 said:
Yep. The first 4 have planted themselves as givens every year. UGA is probably there now too. Most these teams don’t even have to win the conference, and one loss doesn’t exclude them like most other teams.

The most interesting thing every year at this point is which Washington, ND, AU, or LSU will make it in to lose in the semi’s.
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While currently true, only Bama has stayed there for a long time. Clemson is pretty new, OU is cycling back up from peak Stoop days the past 4 or 5 years, OSU has consistently been on that edge, but far from unbeatable lol. Uga only got there since Smart.

Point being this is still a lot different than UF mid-late 2000s, peak LSU, and Miami, then Nebraska before.

We are just caught up in the current cycle because Bama's run is unprecedented and Clemson nailed 3 straight QBs. Without the anomaly of Saban, there would be much more parity. Handful of other sec teams would have more upward mobility. A matter of time...
 
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Devo182 said:
While currently true, only Bama has stayed there for a long time. Clemson is pretty new, OU is cycling back up from peak Stoop days the past 4 or 5 years, OSU has consistently been on that edge, but far from unbeatable lol. Uga only got there since Smart.

Point being this is still a lot different than UF mid-late 2000s, peak LSU, and Miami, then Nebraska before.

We are just caught up in the current cycle because Bama's run is unprecedented and Clemson nailed 3 straight QBs. Without the anomaly of Saban, there would be much more parity. Handful of other sec teams would have more upward mobility. A matter of time...
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The 25 signing limit has also helped these up cycles last longer. Bama could flip a lot faster when they hired Saban, Smart walked into a good roster, OSU was never really down from a personnel standpoint. It took Clemson longer to do it but they had to hit on 3 QBs as you said, plus they were able to get some really good trench guys.

We are in a era of seeing the cycles happen, but the are happening longer. Saban has an absolute stranglehold on the SEC.
 
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rjd970 said:
The 25 signing limit has also helped these up cycles last longer. Bama could flip a lot faster when they hired Saban, Smart walked into a good roster, OSU was never really down from a personnel standpoint. It took Clemson longer to do it but they had to hit on 3 QBs as you said, plus they were able to get some really good trench guys.

We are in a era of seeing the cycles happen, but the are happening longer. Saban has an absolute stranglehold on the SEC.
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I think the biggest factor in the long cycles is the 25 signing limit. Couple that with the transfer portal which amplifies it even more. Now that the transfer portal is a cemented thing I would like to see the number bumped up to something like 28 per year.
 
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