SEC Power Poll, Week Four
by mlmintampa on Sep 29, 2009 6:54 AM EDT
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My SEC Power Poll ballot. Final results at Team Speed Kills on Wednesday.
1. Alabama: In 2008, they ran the table in the regular season with a great defense and a serviceable QB. This season, their defense is still dominant (3rd in the SEC in scoring defense, 1st in total defense) and a QB to match (Greg McElroy leads SEC starters in efficiency with 175.2). With a decent schedule, only at Ole Miss and home for LSU and Tennessee, Alabama is now the clear favorite in the West.
2. Florida: Alabama gets the edge over Florida because Bama's QB is not experiencing headaches from getting KTFO. What is amazing to me is the split between UF fans on how healthy Tim Tebow is. Some (like me) would rather have Tebow sit out LSU, because odds are Tebow will pretend he is healthy when he isn't. And, we like John Brantley enough to give the kid the ball. Others think Tebow just bunked his head and try to diagnose Tebow's concussion on the time they bunked their own head. I don't know what these people are more concerned with; Tebow's long term health or beating LSU. Thankfully, all of us are brain surgeons and physicians and we know what we're talking about.
3. LSU: Between the Washington and Mississippi State games, I have no idea what to make of LSU. Are they 4-0 because they are good or because it's convenient? Georgia will provide a nice test before the Florida game.
4. Auburn: 2, 1, 2, 2. That's Auburn's SEC ranks in scoring, total offense, rushing offense and passing offense. Beating Monte Kiffin will easily get them ranked.
5. Georgia: A.J. Green baby. The SEC leader in yards per game with 107 ypg and 6 catches per game. He makes Joe Cox look like Joe Montana.
6. South Carolina: They could have beat Georgia on the road and defeated Ole Miss in the upset everyone saw coming. With South Carolina State this week and Kentucky next, the Gamecocks will be 5-1 when they go to Bama.
7. Tennessee: Call it East Division bias, but I think the Vols could beat any team in the league, as long as they run and play stout defense. Of course, these guys struggled against Ohio, but college kids play down to their competition.
8. Mississippi: Jevon Snead can't be a Heisman contender when he is 9th in SEC passing efficiency.
9. Mississippi State: I put them above Arky because of a more solid defense. The Bulldogs are also 4th in SEC rushing offense and 12th in passing, so Dan Mullen is halfway to making a good team.
10. Arkansas: At the end of the month, they could easily be 0-5 in the league when they play Auburn, at Ole Miss and at Florida. But they should defeat Texas A&M in Jerry Jones' Football Palace Saturday.
11. Kentucky: I know this was not their intent, but Kentucky's top play this season will be Tebow slamming his head against an offensive lineman.
12. Vanderbilt: Vandy is getting 9.5 for their game at Ole Miss. Vandy is mediocre defensively. Hell yes, I'm taking Vandy for the cover.
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The point is that the doctors won't let him play
if he isn’t healthy. So calling out people who want him on the field is just as unfair as you wanting to keep him off.
All the reports have said “minor” concussion, and while you would still argue that all concussions are terrible, maybe you know, doctors know what they are talking about.
Doctors won't let him play?
That may not actually be the case. Just look at what happened to David Givens. He had a knee problem, but was cleared by the doctors to play for the Titans. However, they doctors downplayed the severity of his injury. He tried to plant on the leg with the bum knee, and now he’ll never play football again.
I know knee injuries and concussions aren’t the same, but it’s the same idea. Tebow pretending to be in better shape than he is and the team wanting to get him on the field ASAP could lead to him being given the OK before he’s really ready to play again.
Not saying that doctors don’t know what they’re talking about, just that they can be influenced. I’d rather Brantley starts these next couple of games. It’d be better to be without Tim for a game or two than for the rest of the year because he was rushed back and got hurt again.
I'm doin the Fish again. (Yeah, yeah, yeah.)
Let's Just Hope...
That Urban Meyer is not a fan of Bud Kilmer.
yea...
i was wondering that too……
Buffalo, that's where it's at baby. - Adam 'Pacman' Jones
by silverstreak3k on Sep 30, 2009 2:03 AM EDT up reply actions
That’s this week’s popular meme – everyone and their grandmother has been jumping aboard the Bama wagon. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Bama tops when the Power Poll comes out. (It might jump past us in the Blogpoll too, for that matter; at least one voter has expressed the view that there are only two elite teams right now, and Florida ain’t one.)
that's cool with me
Alabama was #1 last year too – headed INTO the SECCG. I think falling in the polls without a loss would be the best thing that could happen to this team. Meyer wouldn’t have anymore concerns with motivation and keeping the team hungry.
Gentlemen, currently Alabama knows who their QB is next week. Florida does not. That’s the tiebreaker. In addition, you don’t have to go wire-to-wire to win a National Championship. There is some reverse-jinxing going on too, but explaining that would just expose everyone to my OCD on karma and luck.
mlmintampa
UF C/O 06
I'm with you on the poll
I think Bama deserves the top spot right now, at least until we figure out the passing game. I am hopeful that when the Gators emerge from this flu/sickness funk, the real team will come on.
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