SEC Coverage

Nick Saban sees Kevin Sumlin's Texas A&M program as a threat both now and in the future.

Casual UGA fan Michael makes the case for rooting for Missouri against Georgia this weekend. While I'm on board with his central premise (Go creative offense! Beat Sabanball!), UGA isn't really the team to make that stand against. Mark Richt took over at Georgia a year after Saban took over at LSU, and he's been running roughly the same offense ever since with a few updates here and there. His roots are in the aggressive offenses that FSU ran in the '90s. He's pro-style all the way, but he's not Sabanish. And, for what it's worth, Alabama had the most yards gained per game in SEC play last year.

Nick Saban knows full well what the purpose of the media is and why members write what the write, but he can't help but lash out at them anyway. I can't imagine what it must be like to live with that kind of constant anger.

Straight from the Nicktator's mouth on the weekly SEC conference call, Mark Ingram will play this weekend: "He’s practiced all week, running fast and cutting good. He’s ready to go." This being Nick Saban, of course, we didn't get any more details than that. No word on if he's starting, if there's a limit to the number of carries he'll get, or anything else along those lines. Not that it really matters against Duke.

Well, Nick Saban didn't have to go far to find his new linebackers coach. In fact, he needed only go down the road to Auburn-Opelika, it appears. The cruelest cut? Not only was James Willis the only Tuberville holdover in the Chizik Junta -- Auburn is his alma mater. Terms being used at Track Em Tigers include "Benedict Arnold" and a comparison to "Robert Gates becoming Iraq's Secretary of Defense." And that's from the first two comments. I'm tempted to say this could get interesting -- but it already has.