SEC Power Poll, Week Twelve

by mlmintampa on Nov 24, 2009 3:02 AM EST in Football Comment 28 comments

Our SEC Power Poll ballot. Final results at Team Speed Kills on Wednesday.

1. Alabama: The biggest difference between Bama 2008 and Bama 2009 is that Mark Ingram is an improvement over Glen Coffee. Through 11 games, Ingram is averaging 127 ypg (5th nationally) with 12 touchdowns. Coffee was averaging 99 ypg and 8 touchdowns.

2. Florida: Between Alabama becoming a popular upset pick, Notre Dame again trying to chat up Urban Meyer, and a Big 12 quarterback securing the Heisman, 2009 is looking a lot like 2008 for the Gators. Aside from the offense sucking, of course.

3. LSU: Even my 13 year-old sister was screaming at Les Miles Saturday night. Granted, I have a sister who chose seeing "The Blind Side" over the Twilight movie last weekend.

4. Ole Miss: Proud weekend at Ole Miss; they defeated a division rival and shouted down racist cowards who tried to hijack a beautiful football weekend.

5. Arkansas: They've won four in a row and are scoring in buckets (8th nationally in scoring offense). But three of their four losses were on the road and they will visit LSU on Saturday.

6. Kentucky: If Morgan Newton can keep the train on the tracks and the ball in the bellies of Derrick Locke and Randall Cobb, they will hang with Tennessee. If the defense can force four turnovers like they did against Georgia, they will easily win and complete an epic turnaround after being 2-3 in mid-October.

7. Tennessee: Maybe Kiffin should find some women's basketball players to fill in his defensive roster.

8. Georgia: You know Georgia is having a bad season when they get sympathy from a Gator fan. Although, that's because their dog died, not because Joe Cox sucks.

9. Auburn: The Iron Bowl is going to be a long day for the Tigers. Ingram is going to run all over them.

10. South Carolina: Why is it that they are so terrible late in the season? Is something in the water in Columbia? Are they too focused on their mistress in Argentina?

11. Mississippi State: Beating Ole Miss Saturday in Starkville will make Dan Mullen Year One a huge success.

12. Vanderbilt: At least the season is over.

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besides the offense sucking?

Which year were you referring to? For reference, at this point in ’06, we had scored 316 points as compared to 401 so far this season.

by skigator93 on Nov 24, 2009 10:04 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Compare 2008 to 2009. Scoring is down 10 points per game. I didn’t reference 2006. You did.

mlmintampa
UF C/O 06

by mlmintampa on Nov 24, 2009 10:28 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

add in this years missed FG's and our numbers are probably within 5 or 6 points per game from last year

by pLANEolG8RB8 on Nov 24, 2009 10:31 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

i believe phillips only missed 1 fg all season long.

by pLANEolG8RB8 on Nov 24, 2009 10:32 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

in '08, of course

by pLANEolG8RB8 on Nov 24, 2009 10:36 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

oops - my bad.

I just read it wrong. I kind of parallel this team with 2006 much more than 2008. We won with defense that year – kind of like we are doing now. I probably just had ’06 on the brain….

Plane makes a good point. I am terrified that the SECCG will come down to a field goal and I simply have no faith in Sturgis.

by skigator93 on Nov 24, 2009 12:48 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

re: Aside from offense sucking, of course.

i thought this was a UF blog. why would you call an offense that is 10th in total offense in the nation sucking? that may be the dumbest, most rediculous statement i have heard from a “supposed to be” gator alum and fan. this “offense” does not suck. we might be down from last year’s big play numbers due to some big losses at key positions and losing our OC. but nothing about this team sucks!!! i have a hard time believing that anyone who would say such a thing, much less write it in their blogpost is a real gator.
why do you continue to praise ingram and knock our boys? ingram’s numbers are better than coffee’s numbers because ingram was coffee’s backup last year and was able to fill in with less of a drop off than ingram’s backup this year. ingrams numbers could have been just as good last year as bama’s #1 and coffee’s numbers could have been just as good as ingram’s this year. What did ingram do in the only close game bama has played this year? 0 TD"s and he fumbled late in the game and should have cost bama their only loss vs UT. in UF’s only close game this year vs arkansas TT drove his team down the field for the game winning score. until ingram and bama beat UF and Teboe they should stay where they belong on this, and every blog: #2 behind UF.
let’s get to the heart of the matter. just admit it, mlm, you really loath what TT stands for. that is why you continually make these snide remarks with hidden messages, kinda like UT’s coach LK and the rest of the main stream media!!!!! GO GATORS!!!!!!

by pLANEolG8RB8 on Nov 24, 2009 10:20 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I'm with you

Except for that last paragraph. I haven’t seen anything by mlmintampa to suggest he feels anything other than respect and admiration for Tim. He’s done a great job with this blog, and while he doesn’t always get it right (like saying our offense sucks), his heart is always orange and blue.

by falcontom on Nov 24, 2009 11:36 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

You praise Tebow so much

but You continue to mispell his name Teboe, I know the E is next to the W, but if you respect him so dang much. Spell his name right. It ruins your whole arguement if you cant spell his name. I’ll admit I am terrible with grammar, but I always try to sspell a guys name right.

"Why does bottled water have an expiration date?"

by Hook85 on Nov 25, 2009 7:48 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

you may be right

but i keep hearing that ingram is the best player in college football by the talking heads in the media today and that is rediculous. ingram is a very good “running back” but his numbers are hardly better than the other two RB’s at bama, except for amount of touches. noone has brought up the fact that bama has 2 or 3 of the best receivers in the country and they require double coverage in most cases, hince, no one has been able to stack the box against bama’s “O”. we’ll see how good ingram is against our UF “D” that has corners who can cover the bama receivers with man coverage and keep 7 or 8 players inside the box. oh yeah, UF whipped bama last year without Percy and i believe ingram played in that game. GO GATORS

by pLANEolG8RB8 on Nov 24, 2009 12:33 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Ingram and Company

Sorry fellas, but I tend to agree with mlm on this one. Ingram is a better back thatn Coffee. Ingram has 205 carries for 1400 yards and 12 TDs in 11 games. Last season, Coffee had 233 carries for 1383 yards and 10 TDs in 14 games. Ingram also has twice as many receiving yards in those 11 games than Coffee had all last season (including 2 more TDs).
Ingram averages more yards per carry and is a bigger threat to break a long one.

I think the SECCG will be something like 9-7, which really scares me.

Also, you must have missed a few games if you think Arky was our only close game. LSU, MSU, USC and even UT were close games. I think our offense bogs down too much in the red zone, commits too many TOs (although that has gotten better), and has been hamstrung by horrendously conservative play calling.

It is frustrating when your team outclasses the opponent by a wide margin, but you have to scratch and claw for a win.

by skigator93 on Nov 24, 2009 1:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

LSU and UT were not close.

Maybe score-wise, but there wasn’t a single moment in those 2 games I thought the other guy was going to pull out a W. MSU and USC on the other hand…

by falcontom on Nov 24, 2009 1:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

add the missed fg's at usc and that game's a blow out, both games were away sec games

by pLANEolG8RB8 on Nov 24, 2009 1:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

take away all our silly fumbles and TOs

and all the game are blowouts…..

by skigator93 on Nov 24, 2009 2:53 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

so now it's TO's and not adazzio? come on skigator make up your mind ;-)

by pLANEolG8RB8 on Nov 24, 2009 7:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I think it is TOs, red-zone failure and play-calling

but poor play calling can bring out the other two problems.

by skigator93 on Nov 24, 2009 9:55 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

i didn't miss any games and i don't consider 10 point wins close games

and furthermore the points that you made, while valid, could be seen by a blind man. i guess that you thought after losing Harvin, Murphy, bookend tackles, C. Moore, and our offensive coordinator that life in the SWAMP would be business as usual. one little note to “Gator Nation” this ain’t 2008, it’s 2009 and we have won 21 straight, enjoy it while you still can, cause streaks like this don’t come around very often.
re: ingram and bama, to be the best, you should have to beat the best. until that happens, in my humble opinion, UF should “at the very least” be #1 on our blogs, and Teboe should be our “He15man”!!! God Bless, and go gators

by pLANEolG8RB8 on Nov 24, 2009 1:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

well

We all knew that Harvin would be a big loss – even a blind man could see that as you like to say. But I figured that amongst our 37 four-star WR signees, that someone could replace Murphy’s 650 yards of receiving. On the OL, this years starter’s saw plenty of action last season due to injuries. The main difference has been that Adazzio is terrified to open up the offense, and that has caused it to plod along. The dive play? again?

by skigator93 on Nov 24, 2009 3:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

i agree with you skigator93 but when its all said and done

at the end of the game, and at the end of the season, all that will matter is wins and losses. zook lost a lot of games that UF was leading going into the fourth qtr because we couldn’t control the clock and he was throwing the ball when he should have been running it and eating clock, and that team could not convert on third down. i believe the reason our defense is so good at closing out games and taking them over in the fourth qtr now is because they are well rested because of those dreaded dive plays that we are running and our ability to convert on 3rd down. the next time that you want to cuss adazzio about his conservative play calling, just remember, there’s more to game planning than just scoring a bunch of points. last years sec title game we scored 31 and bcs championship game we scored 24, both of those games were taken over and won in the fourth qtr by a defense that i believe was rested enough to play harder at the end to finish the game than they had to at the start of the game. i have great respect for you, as i believe by your posts you are a true gator, God bless, go gators

by pLANEolG8RB8 on Nov 24, 2009 4:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

agreed on the Ws

But I feel like this team is playing way below its potential offensively and has not made much (if any) progress all season. Adazzio needs to move up into the box and off the field. I am not sure what he is going to do next season because he can’t just run Brantley up the middle everytime he has 3rd and short like he does now with Tebow.

I think the dive will work fine against FSU, not so much with Alabama.
Adazzio is like a kid with 100 toys under the tree on Christmas morning, but is content playing in the box that the dishwasher came in…

by skigator93 on Nov 24, 2009 5:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

i hope that adazzio and meyer are "setting folks up"

meyer said early in the year that UT was “playing not to get blown out”. i believe that this team is mature enough that we can play “just good enough to win” look at our game plan for LSU. long drives, keep the ball away from their offense, do not allow them to get in a rithym, play field position and let your defense win it for you. one thing about the dive play, the clock never stops and we’re not having problems moving the ball between the 20 yard lines. red zone scoring is what is hurting us and like 06 our kicker has been inconsistant. i believe urban will add a few wrinkles that will get us in the end zone from the red zone, in fact, coach meyer may be playin’ possom. we’ll see

by pLANEolG8RB8 on Nov 24, 2009 7:27 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I hope you're right!

by skigator93 on Nov 24, 2009 9:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I agree with Adazzio

He runs Tebow up the middle 99% of the time on short yardage plays and its not suprising to see Tebow get stuffed, when all 11 players are gunning for #15 as soon as the ball is hiked. His WR screen to Brand James, never works. Oh and his other favorite is Hernadez shuffle pass. WOW 3 plays to game plan against.

As I said before, I expected the production to drop in the passing, but I didnt expect Tebow to run the ball every other play AGAIN.

"Why does bottled water have an expiration date?"

by Hook85 on Nov 25, 2009 8:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I didnt think Louis Murphy was

all that great, I knew he had the talent. But I wasnt that impressed. But he has outplayed all of the recievers on the Raiders this year. Dont give me that. “oh its the Raiders” talk. Just one season ago we had two starting NFL wide outs on our team. Cleary I under estimated Murphy. And losing 2 NFL starters, one a NFC rookie of the year(most likely) it isnt hard to see why our offense has stalled so much in the redzone. No freshmen in college football would be able to take Harvins place, not even Debose. Even Harvin as a freshmen wasnt Harvin. He only wieghed close to 180, last season he was up to 200lbs and with all that extra lean muscle, a bad ass stiff arm came with it. I doubt there will ever be another Harvin.

btw, Murphy played against my rival HS, Lake Wood. Just had to throw that in there, since not a lot Gators come out of the St. Petersburg area.

"Why does bottled water have an expiration date?"

by Hook85 on Nov 25, 2009 8:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

btw, Murphy played ~~against~~ on one of my HS rivals team, Lake Wood.

Sbnation come out with a EDIT button please!!!!

"Why does bottled water have an expiration date?"

by Hook85 on Nov 25, 2009 8:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yea those wernt exactly

what I would call “close”, games.

I guess if you continue to compare this teams to other Gator teams, you could say the games were close. As a football standpoint, winning by 10 points isnt a close game. Not a blow out, but not a close game.

"Why does bottled water have an expiration date?"

by Hook85 on Nov 25, 2009 8:05 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

3. LSU: Even my 13 year-old sister was screaming at Les Miles Saturday night. Granted, I have a sister who chose seeing “The Blind Side” over the Twilight movie last weekend.

For this, thank god.

Tennessee Fans: We win at teh Internet!

by bobo_the_vol on Nov 24, 2009 12:56 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

You say this years offense "sucks"

Aside from the offense sucking, of course.

“These kids are spoiled. They don’t know what it was like watching Ron Zook for three years.”

Can anyone say Hypocrite?

You complain so much about todays students being spoiled, if you think this years offense sucks, cleary you are the one who is spoiled.Your always down about something for this team, can you be any more of a downer? Is that the only way to run a blog? Negativity?

"Why does bottled water have an expiration date?"

by Hook85 on Nov 25, 2009 8:02 PM EST reply actions 0 recs