I'm not going to hate on UT but I have to say "if" we get beat by a mediocre Vanderbilt team or one of the worst teams in College Football in Kentucky I don't know if I want to see us in the SECCG. My thinking is that if UK/Vandy can beat us then Auburn would kill us a second time. Playing Vandy in two weeks will be a bigger challenge than UK for sure but they aren't a great football team by any means. It don't matter if we've got Clausen in there or not because we should be able to handle Vandy/UK with him for sure. He's not a bad QB as he made one big mistake yesterday but made some great passes too when his O-Line actually gave him more than 2 seconds to throw it. They have to work on their O-Line though.
I think we'll beat Vandy and UK and go into the SECCG with at least Schaffer healthy. If we can sort out some of the issues we have then we should at least give Auburn a good game. I'm just not too thrilled with some of the play calling on offense, nor ever have been with Sanders calling the plays. I didn't like the call on 4th and 1, anything would have been better than that. I know Clausen isn't exactly fast but I think I would have done a bootleg with him having a couple of options to throw to and if not running for the first down. Anyway, there's alot of if's coming out of the game yesterday. If they would have ruled that pass a catch, if CJ Fayton wouldn't have dropped a wide open pass that would have surely got him 30-40 yards, if we would have done something different on 4th and 1, if the center wouldn't have had another bad snap the last drive, etc. But the fact is ND won, don't matter how, and now we just have to play for the SEC Championship. Even if we don't have a chance for a NC this year it would be great for UT to go to possibly knock Auburn out of the title game and go to a BCS Bowl. I could see us playing Virginia or Utah. I'd love to see us butt heads with the Utes if they stay undefeated and us knocking off two unbeaten teams the last two games of the year.
DD
