Florida if Tebow went down, or Bama if Ingram went down? Both teams looked utterly reliant on their two stars tonight. McElroy is getting worse by the week, and Florida….ugh. I guess the answer is UF, but Bama needs to get McElroy back on track real quick.

1) I’d buy him for NYC. Too early for winner talk, but in a year when the established stars aren’t shining so bright, Ingram has a chance. Tebow is slowly coming into form, but unspectacularly.

2) About equal, but for different reasons. UF impressed in that they were able to get their **** together after a disastrous first half and pull out the win. Bama impressed in that they shut down USC for huge portions of the game, and Ingram went wild. Slight edge to Bama on the night, larger edge to Bama overall. But…McElroy.

3) This was a bad week, but I think a lot of these guys were overrated. Turnovers everywhere tonight.

4) Rebuilding. It’s a long process, but I think just about everyone agrees that they’re on the right path. Maybe 2 years from being truly “back.”

5) The East is all but over. Bama-LSU, obviously. And….uhh….I guess UF-USC. I don’t know. TWLOCP is always an event.

Can y’all do the research and determine whether an Alabama player has ever been invited to the Heisman ceremony? I’m fairly up on Bama history (or at least I was when I was 12), but I don’t even know if the Deuce got invited in ’93 when he finished 3rd.

1) it would be nice, but the team and most of the fanbase care more about the NC than having a player win the heisman. not saying we wouldn’t go spastic if he did, or support him should he start being officially considered.

2) seriously? why is this question even being asked? florida, for all intents and purposes, should’ve lost to a team alabama smote old-testament style 35-7. the gators can thank those refs for the assist. when gary danielson says the calls were BS despite his tebow homo-lust, you know something’s up. meanwhile, alabama beats the #22 ranked team in the country by two touchdowns, despite having as many turnovers as the gators, having javier arenas sit the game out with an injury, and having to deal with a QB having a meltdown. the defense was scary, and the RB had a performance that has sites like this one asking if he deserves the heisman. while both wins were less than pretty, is anyone really thinking that the gators win was more impressive?

3) probably a bad week (or two if you’re mcelroy).

4) i wasn’t all too eager to declare auburn “back” because i saw that their offensive numbers were against crap teams. plus it was obvious that their defense couldn’t tackle a tree. why no one else seemed to see it still puzzles me. maybe it was the feel good story angle. even i wanted them to do well after the horrorshow they had to go through last year, and i’m a bama fan. i knew that as soon as they faced the meat of the SEC schedule, they would more than likely be exposed. the extent of the exposure, however, has been a surprise. auburn no doubt has potential, but until they get something resembling a defense, it wont be realized for a couple of years.

5) bama-tennesee is big. the vols had a bye week and bama will have been playing for 8 weeks without one. couple that with the tide’s recent (non-rushing) offensive, special teams, and inexplicable penalty psychosis, it could be an interesting game. i don’t see the vol offense getting it done against the bama D, but there is a distinct possibility it may come down to whoever kicks the most field goals.

if bama beats tennessee, i dont think the game with lsu will be as huge as people are making it out to be, as the tigers just arent that good this year.

none of florida’s games will be big because look at that schedule, they’re gonna murder all of them.

auburn-georgia will be slightly interesting in that it’ll probably be the highest scoring game in SEC history.

other than that, not much.

this has been one of the weirdest football seasons i can remember in that every team seems to suck in one way or another.

- It could happen; this is the widest open the race has been in a while, though I guess 2007 was pretty wild too.

- Bama gets the edge because their defence never cracked and they could always just give it to Ingram when they ran out of ideas on offence, but both teams were definitely unimpressive. Arky and South Carolina are pretty much equivalent as opponents – the Cocks don’t have a win as good as Arky’s dismantling of Auburn, but until tonight they didn’t have a loss as bad as Arky’s dismantling by Bama. To me the ranking issue is due to a quirk of scheduling – Arky had the bad luck to face the Tide first.

- Quarterback play has been pretty bad this year across the country, really; when was the last time so many highly touted QBs at high-profile programs failed to develop at the same time? Lots of ugly performances today, continuing a season-long trend.

- The new coaching staff is obviously a major improvement, but these are still basically the same players as last year, so there’s a definite ceiling. The hot start was obviously something of an illusion, but I don’t think Auburn will fold down the stretch. Seven or eight wins, a decent bowl, a nice recruiting season – they’ll be somebody to worry about again soon enough. (Though they’d better watch out for Arky, which looks further along the re-development path.)

- Um, er. In the East, SoCar-Florida could have some juice, but it depends on the records going in; with UF at 4-0 and everyone else with two or more SEC losses already, the Gators can drop a game against anyone without conceding the division. In the West, I guess Bama-LSU is the obvious choice based on current records; everyone else needs help to catch up. LSU-Auburn is another intriguing one – if the purple/gold Tigers lose to the orange/blue Tigers, Bama will likely be in the same boat as Florida. (Unless Kiffin & Son, Ltd, can spring a gigantic upset next week.)

UF, UA, UTx would have 13 turnovers combined and all all three would win, would you believe me?

Didn’t think so.

to be number 1 in the polls. We will end up playing them anyways most likely, so who cares if were 1-3. Seems like being number just adds that extra motivation for teams to knock you off.