2008 sec race Stories - Team Speed Kills
ESPN: The Big 10 Is Still College Football's Most Prestigious Conference
Looking for another essentialist way to mash numbers with logic, ESPN spent the last week counting down College Football's Most Prestigious Programs, using an especially random yardstick for point gains, and limiting their evaulation to the modern era (1936 to present). For whatever reason -- and...
Who Will Play Penn State for the BCS National Championship?
Humble, God-fearing college football pundit that I am, it's not normally my style to call anyone title contender elect. Especially not this early. But it dawned on me last night, as I was scooping steamed rice out of a Chinese take out container and watching No. 7 Texas Tech vulture No. 1 Texas...
The SEC Condenters' Rooting Guide to the BCS Race
The BCS standings have just come out, and Alabama is 2nd, Georgia is 7th, Florida is 10th, and LSU is 13th. All of these teams have a shot, whether good or remote, of making the title game if they win out. The overall sentiment this season is that, if no one goes undefeated and these are...
SEC Power Poll: A Sea of Blue's Ballot for Week 1
So here it is, my much anticipated ballot for the SEC Power Poll for week 1 of the college football season. Below, you will have my rankings, rationale and comments. The full power poll will be published in the next day or so at Garnet and Black Attack as always. You can find links to the...
Beyond the Box Score: SEC edition (Part One)
So at my current rate, I'll be sick of writing about the Big 12 by about Week Three of the season. I mean...how many words have I written about the Ne-----a defense at this point? 7,000? 8,000? And Ron Prince's JUCOs? 2,000? I've still got a few more BTBS previews of Big 12 teams to write,...
How The West Was (Is) Won
By War Eagle Atlanta glg68@aol.com After reading Jay's excellent article last week on what passes for greatness when it comes to coaches on the Plains, it got me thinking about all the ways we've come to define it, regardless of whom we choose to bestow it upon. The most popular is through...
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