SEC 1st Week Review

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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 canā€™t compare scores so bear with me), we saw a lot of ā€œstrugglesā€ 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 isnā€™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, Iā€™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. Donā€™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. Itā€™s looking up folks.
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AND then comes FLA.......:mad:
 
#30
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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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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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šŸ’Æ Iā€™d remember what ole Darius Rucker said too if I were them and plaster it all over the locker room that week.
 
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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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VolKnight9 said:
šŸ’Æ Iā€™d remember what ole Darius Rucker said too if I were them and plaster it all over the locker room that week.
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Beamer really tried to say his walk was better than ours, then he took a cheap shot at us saying some sec teams don't know the feeling of beating Georgia State like they do. All of this needs to be posted up like you said for game week to remind the players to go take care of business
 
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Volmac2022 said:
Beamer really tried to say his walk was better than ours, then he took a cheap shot at us saying some sec teams don't know the feeling of beating Georgia State like they do. All of this needs to be posted up like you said for game week to remind the players to go take care of business
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And then they literally go and struggle beating Georgia StatešŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚
 
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TNHopeful505 said:
When dude threw the interception in the red zone, I literally felt my BVS flare up for them. I literally wondered if Guarantano played for Utah. I feel like we all knew how they felt in that moment.
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Some of the worst play calling on that last drive that I can recall. Burnt all 3 timeouts throwing 3 yard passes into traffic then near the goal line with 4 downs and 25 seconds and they never try a fade pass or a crossing pass along the back of the end zone? Florida couldnā€™t seem to get much of a pass rush (good for us in 3 weeks) so there was time. Utahā€™s coaches didnā€™t give their players the best chance to win IMO
 
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dduncan4163 said:
Yup and Utah had an oppertunity to win this game. A few actually. Ricardson is good but imo Florida just doesn't have enough to keep up with us for 4 quarters. Utah ran well on them and that WR as feasting on those Gator DBs. If Utah had a legit number 2 they win. We have 3 legit weapons at WR.
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4 I think. Keyton could turn out to be a beast IMO
 
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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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Halph66 said:
All good points.

I didnā€™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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Lol, they were playing the #23 ranked team in the country that made the playoffs last year. Their secondary has issues but KJ Jefferson is every bit as good as UFā€™s Richardson

Jeffersonā€™s stats from last year while playing the #1 ranked toughest schedule in the country: Over 2600 passing yards, 21-4 TD to Int ratio, and ran for 664 yds. Yeah, heā€™s pretty good
 
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dduncan4163 said:
Yup and Utah had an oppertunity to win this game. A few actually. Ricardson is good but imo Florida just doesn't have enough to keep up with us for 4 quarters. Utah ran well on them and that WR as feasting on those Gator DBs. If Utah had a legit number 2 they win. We have 3 legit weapons at WR.
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And a better quarterback.
 
#49
#49
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 canā€™t compare scores so bear with me), we saw a lot of ā€œstrugglesā€ 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 isnā€™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, Iā€™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. Donā€™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. Itā€™s looking up folks.
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I also think Utah's ranking was higher than it should have been, thus setting the expectations that they were a good to elite team. After watching the game, I saw nothing that would support #7 in the nation. Florida won, yes... But I think as the season progresses, that win will look less and less impressive.

Tennessee still wins this game by 21 IMO.
 
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So basically the SEC outscored their opponents 550-90 in week 1. SEC looking better and more competitive coming out of week 1 than I can ever remember, but I know once we start beating each other up, the chips will fall into place a little more.

I wish I could be one of those guys that pulls for all SEC teams regardless. That would make my Vol fandom so much less frustrating and college football viewing more pleasurable, but Iā€™m not that guy. I literally hate every other SEC team and want them all to lose every Saturday if it were possible.
 
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