SEC 1st Week Review

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CroKev said:
So when you include all 14 SEC teams (including Missouri and Vandy), the SEC came away with a "14+ and 0" record in the first week of football! That's pretty impressive. I know a lot of the teams had "cake-walks with cup-cakes" (with the exception of Florida, Georgia, and Arkansas) but can any other conference say that (I'm too tired to look it up!)?
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15-0 Vandy won in week 0.
 
#52
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Halph66 said:
All good points.

I didn’t see anything impressive out of the hogs. I expected more from the #19 ranked team. Tennessee would boat race the hogs imo.
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They are coming off a 9-4 season with the most difficult schedule. They just beat a ranked team out of the gates. Cincinnati was no push over. The hogs are well coached and very physical. They came very close to taking down Alabama last year as well as Ole Miss. They were about as close to 11 - 2 as you could get. Tennessee would not boat race the Arkansas Razorbacks. They are a very good team that nobody wants to play if given a choice because it's gonna be smash mouth football. Pittman has recruited well and also did a great job in the transfer portal. I'm not an Arkansas fan but you gotta give credit where credit is due.
 
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VolKnight9 said:
Just wanted to take a few minutes to possibly make everyone feel a little better about where we are after week 1.
Week 1 Scores
Tennessee 59 Ball State 10
Kentucky 37 Miami(OH) 13
Florida 29 Utah 26
Ole Miss 28 Troy 10
Arkansas 31 Cincy 24
Georgia 49 Oregon 3
Texas A&M 31 Sam Houston 0
Auburn Currently up 35-7 over Mercer
Vanderbilt currently up 42-31 over Elon
Mississippi St currently up 21-3 over Memphis
Alabama currently up 55-0 over Utah St
South Carolina currently up 35-14 over Georgia St


Outlook:
I want to focus mainly on Texas A&M, Ole Miss, Kentucky, SC, Auburn and us. Looking specifically at scores (I know you can’t compare scores so bear with me), we saw a lot of “struggles” in the first full day of College Football. I think we can all agree that Texas A&M should have won way more handily than what they did being the number 6 team in the country. All the Kentucky hype seemed to be in jeopardy until after the half. I think the SC/Spencer Rattler expectations reveals that SC isn’t going to be the upset team everyone thought they were going to be. Ole Miss, who typically lights up the scoreboard only managed to muster up 28 points on Troy. Auburn is winning soundly but you would expect more from an SEC team playing a Southern Conference team. I say all that to say this. Quite a few teams have their concerns after this Week. It should make us feel better that Ball State was never in the game. Regardless of us having a sack or not. Regardless of our soft coverage or not. They never stood a chance. Now, while I believe we need to address the DB issues, I think all of us are going to be pleasantly surprised with our defense this time next week. Secondly, I’d like to point out that Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Arkansas all look good. Georgia and Alabama obviously looking elite while Arkansas continues to get better under Pittman and Florida coming out looking a little better than we expected. Don’t fret it. We have a Good team and we are on the right track with the right coach. We are gonna surprise some people this year. Just think, Utah was ranked 7th in the country. Florida beat them but not without some concerning stats. They gave up 230 rushing yards and 216 Passing Yards. 230 yards on the ground is a pretty good chunk. Florida managed to have 283 on the ground and while Utah gave up a good fight, they missed a ton of tackles and looked like a typical Pac12 defense. Pittsburgh gave up 190 rushing yards to a sub par West Virginia team while only rushing for 76, once again, against a sub par WVU defense. We go out there and play SEC football and execute, we might just win some dang ball games. It’s looking up folks.
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A few things. We will surprise all the 9 and 10 win hopefuls this year by winning a max of 8 games in my opinion.

We lost to Gerogia St at home and beat a top ten team at home the same year, so I'm not knocking SC for winning by two TDs to that same team in game 1.

You just can't compare Ball St. to most of the teams other SEC opponents played.

We were missing 2 DBs and a good LB and I think a DL in this game.

We are sitting on potentially seeing yet again a surprising tandem at LB. Beasley could potentially be Beastly by EOY. Mitchell didn't even play against Ball. Banks seemed to be everywhere but wasn't even the leader in tackles at 6... Compared to Beastly's 8. Not a bad thing.
 
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#54
vegasvolfan said:
A few things. We will surprise all the 9 and 10 win hopefuls this year by winning a max of 8 games in my opinion.

We lost to Gerogia St at home and beat a top ten team at home the same year, so I'm not knocking SC for winning by two TDs to that same team in game 1.

You just can't compare Ball St. to most of the teams other SEC opponents played.

We were missing 2 DBs and a good LB and I think a DL in this game.

We are sitting on potentially seeing yet again a surprising tandem at LB. Beasley could potentially be Beastly by EOY. Mitchell didn't even play against Ball. Banks seemed to be everywhere but wasn't even the leader in tackles at 6... Compared to Beastly's 8. Not a bad thing.
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😂😂 you can’t compare Ball St to other teams that played SEC opponents?
 
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VolKnight9 said:
Just wanted to take a few minutes to possibly make everyone feel a little better about where we are after week 1.
Week 1 Scores
Tennessee 59 Ball State 10
Kentucky 37 Miami(OH) 13
Florida 29 Utah 26
Ole Miss 28 Troy 10
Arkansas 31 Cincy 24
Georgia 49 Oregon 3
Texas A&M 31 Sam Houston 0
Auburn Currently up 35-7 over Mercer
Vanderbilt currently up 42-31 over Elon
Mississippi St currently up 21-3 over Memphis
Alabama currently up 55-0 over Utah St
South Carolina currently up 35-14 over Georgia St


Outlook:
I want to focus mainly on Texas A&M, Ole Miss, Kentucky, SC, Auburn and us. Looking specifically at scores (I know you can’t compare scores so bear with me), we saw a lot of “struggles” in the first full day of College Football. I think we can all agree that Texas A&M should have won way more handily than what they did being the number 6 team in the country. All the Kentucky hype seemed to be in jeopardy until after the half. I think the SC/Spencer Rattler expectations reveals that SC isn’t going to be the upset team everyone thought they were going to be. Ole Miss, who typically lights up the scoreboard only managed to muster up 28 points on Troy. Auburn is winning soundly but you would expect more from an SEC team playing a Southern Conference team. I say all that to say this. Quite a few teams have their concerns after this Week. It should make us feel better that Ball State was never in the game. Regardless of us having a sack or not. Regardless of our soft coverage or not. They never stood a chance. Now, while I believe we need to address the DB issues, I think all of us are going to be pleasantly surprised with our defense this time next week. Secondly, I’d like to point out that Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Arkansas all look good. Georgia and Alabama obviously looking elite while Arkansas continues to get better under Pittman and Florida coming out looking a little better than we expected. Don’t fret it. We have a Good team and we are on the right track with the right coach. We are gonna surprise some people this year. Just think, Utah was ranked 7th in the country. Florida beat them but not without some concerning stats. They gave up 230 rushing yards and 216 Passing Yards. 230 yards on the ground is a pretty good chunk. Florida managed to have 283 on the ground and while Utah gave up a good fight, they missed a ton of tackles and looked like a typical Pac12 defense. Pittsburgh gave up 190 rushing yards to a sub par West Virginia team while only rushing for 76, once again, against a sub par WVU defense. We go out there and play SEC football and execute, we might just win some dang ball games. It’s looking up folks.
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KY, Ole Miss, Vandy not impressive.
 
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#58
HuntlandVolinColo said:
Ark looked sloppy to me. I expected them to blow out Cincy but maybe credit should be given to Cincy coach Fickell, they started backup QB who looked good too.
Florida showed they still have plenty of athletes on that team. Looking at the stats above, KY could give them fits running the ball though.
aTm I'd like to watch that game because they didn't score a lot but Haynes King had great stats.
I've never bought into the Rattler hype so I don't think he will be a top6 SEC QB but we all know GAst is one team you don't want to open the season with.
Elon shows just how bad Hawaii is
Ole Miss played a good Troy team, had 3 second half unforced turnovers and still won somewhat comfortably. A lot of turnovers but a lot of new players too.
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Ark should have put another 14 on them.
 
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vegasvolfan said:
A few things. We will surprise all the 9 and 10 win hopefuls this year by winning a max of 8 games in my opinion.

We lost to Gerogia St at home and beat a top ten team at home the same year, so I'm not knocking SC for winning by two TDs to that same team in game 1.

You just can't compare Ball St. to most of the teams other SEC opponents played.

We were missing 2 DBs and a good LB and I think a DL in this game.

We are sitting on potentially seeing yet again a surprising tandem at LB. Beasley could potentially be Beastly by EOY. Mitchell didn't even play against Ball. Banks seemed to be everywhere but wasn't even the leader in tackles at 6... Compared to Beastly's 8. Not a bad thing.
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Need to increase scholarships from 85 to a 100. Smaller schools getting better because of all the good 3*. I’m a fan of keeping big programs big. Do you really want to see GA ST top 15 vs MS ST?
 
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Volmac2022 said:
I now think the South Carolina has improved but their record won't all that much. I also hope our football staff and players catch the little digs Beamer is sending us on TV. Imo the USC vs Vols game needs to be lights out smash mouth football and we beat them by 4 or 5 TDs to let Beamer know where his place is
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I don’t know that we’re built for smash mouth football. But we can score a ton of points.
 
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I watched most of the Ark game. Cincy missed 2 chip shot FGs and blew another chance in first half. Frankly, I thought they outplayed Ark.
 
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CroKev said:
So when you include all 14 SEC teams (including Missouri and Vandy), the SEC came away with a "14+ and 0" record in the first week of football! That's pretty impressive. I know a lot of the teams had "cake-walks with cup-cakes" (with the exception of Florida, Georgia, and Arkansas) but can any other conference say that (I'm too tired to look it up!)?
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SEC is 14-1 after the first week
 
#66
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VolKnight9 said:
Go look at the opponents that other teams played lol. Georgia State, Sam Houston, Miami Ohio….. they are all teams that should be beat by 50
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Miami of OH was actually picked to upset Kentucky by one of the SECN guys. Kind of crazy but true. Apparently they aren't that bad.
 
#67
#67
Fullfillmer said:
Everyone that plays Florida going forward will key on the Fla qb. He will not run wild most games like he did today.
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Its not just keying on him, you have to get him on the
ground. He broke tackles all night long. Need to wrap him
up and get help.
 
#68
#68
vegasvolfan said:
A few things. We will surprise all the 9 and 10 win hopefuls this year by winning a max of 8 games in my opinion.
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"Max"? LOL.

We lost to Gerogia St at home and beat a top ten team at home the same year, so I'm not knocking SC for winning by two TDs to that same team in game 1.
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I guess it would do no good to remind you that there's been a coaching change since GSU and a QB change. Or that a contributor to the coaching change was coaching incompetence like that game?

Can you explain the logic you are using here? A TERRIBLE coaching job coupled with a terrible QB resulted in a UT loss... and that somehow means USCe didn't look pathetic for most of their game vs GSU? GSU played them even and lost on ST's. They held USC under 100 yds rushing for a 2.47 ypc average. They needed the passing game to win... and Rattler came out of that game with the lowest QBR among starters in the SEC.

You want to dismiss what this means to USCe. I don't know why you have such a compulsion to spin everything as negative as you can... but you do.

You just can't compare Ball St. to most of the teams other SEC opponents played.
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And if UT had not handled them so easily and completely... you'd have a modest point. FWIW,...

UK struggled with a MAC team. A better MAC team but their struggles were very real. It was a game into the 3rd qtr until a kick return and fumble totally changed the game.

USCe struggled.

TAM struggled offensively vs FCS SHU.

Ole Miss didn't put Troy away. Dart ain't what they're used to.

UT played a bad team and did what good teams do when they play bad teams. They put them away early and played lots of back ups.

We were missing 2 DBs and a good LB and I think a DL in this game.
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Who is we and what game are you talking about?

We are sitting on potentially seeing yet again a surprising tandem at LB. Beasley could potentially be Beastly by EOY. Mitchell didn't even play against Ball. Banks seemed to be everywhere but wasn't even the leader in tackles at 6... Compared to Beastly's 8. Not a bad thing.
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Seems like that would be a definite step in the right direction toward a 9th win.
 
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sjt18 said:
"Max"? LOL.

I guess it would do no good to remind you that there's been a coaching change since GSU and a QB change. Or that a contributor to the coaching change was coaching incompetence like that game?

Can you explain the logic you are using here? A TERRIBLE coaching job coupled with a terrible QB resulted in a UT loss... and that somehow means USCe didn't look pathetic for most of their game vs GSU? GSU played them even and lost on ST's. They held USC under 100 yds rushing for a 2.47 ypc average. They needed the passing game to win... and Rattler came out of that game with the lowest QBR among starters in the SEC.

You want to dismiss what this means to USCe. I don't know why you have such a compulsion to spin everything as negative as you can... but you do.

And if UT had not handled them so easily and completely... you'd have a modest point. FWIW,...

UK struggled with a MAC team. A better MAC team but their struggles were very real. It was a game into the 3rd qtr until a kick return and fumble totally changed the game.

USCe struggled.

TAM struggled offensively vs FCS SHU.

Ole Miss didn't put Troy away. Dart ain't what they're used to.

UT played a bad team and did what good teams do when they play bad teams. They put them away early and played lots of back ups.

Who is we and what game are you talking about?


Seems like that would be a definite step in the right direction toward a 9th win.
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Bro. Get off your high horse.
 
#70
#70
A brand new coach beat the #7 team in the nation and you notice some "concerning" stats?
 
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