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SEC Power Poll: A Sea of Blue's Ballot for Week 9
Time again for the SEC Power Poll, a weekly ranking of SEC teams by our member blogs. As usual, the final results are compiled and available for your perusal at Garnet and Black Attack. Week 9 of the college football season is already over, and it is crunch time for many teams including the...
Statistical Strength of Schedule
Something I put together last season that I'm doing again is a statistical strength of schedule ranking. The full rationale and national breakdown is over at my home base, but here's the way it works. Take the average national rank of the teams a school has played so far in four categories: total...
SEC Power Poll Round Table: Week 6 Answers
The SEC Power Poll Roundtable, held every third week during the college football season, is being hosted this time by Hey Jenny Slater, an excellent Georgia blog. I am just a bit late to the party owing to the huge mass of stuff I have had to post this week, it's kind of like the perfect storm...
SEC Power Poll: A Sea of Blue's Ballot for Week 6
Well, this has been one strange season. If I told you that Tennessee and Auburn would be in the lower half of the SEC 50% of the way through the season and Vanderbilt would be in the top three, I would venture that most observers would reckon me crazy. But that's just what we are staring at...
Taking stock of Kentucky's place in the SEC
After six weeks of football, now is a good time to take stock and see where we are this season, and what our future prospects may be. With the 'Cats dropping their first game of the season in Tuscaloosa on Saturday, it's time to turn our attention to what lies ahead. First of all, let's take a...
Road Sweet Road
via Flickr user Beyond Baroque A story that has been getting some play around the country this week in some areas is the curious state of SEC home field advantage. Or lack thereof, as the case may be. Among intra-conference games, SEC road teams are 8-3 on this young season. I've heard a few...
SEC Power Poll: A Sea of Blue's Ballot for Week 5
The full results of the SEC Power Poll is up now at Garnet and Black Attack. Once again, it's time for the SEC Power Poll. This week sees lots of changes due to upsets, particularly in the SEC East. Alabama has become dominant by beating Georgia so convincingly. Florida's 1-point loss to Ole...
NCAA Football: Are the new clock rules hurting the game?
John Clay of the Herald-Leader has an interesting post today on his blog, Sidelines, looking at the total number of plays run in the SEC last year vs. this year. As you know, the NCAA changed the clock rules substantially this year, and we have seen several cases of delay of game penalties...
Kentucky Football: Is it good, or is it bad?
I find that I cannot answer my own question. I want to belive it is good, but there are reasons that I am given pause. I am convinced that Michael Hartline is growing up at quarterback before our eyes, but it takes two to make a pass connection, and I think our receivers are simply not cutting...
SEC Power Poll Round Table: Answers
This is the first installment of the SEC Power Poll round table. For those of you unfamiliar with this "round table" format, the questions are hosted on one blog and each participating blog posts the answers to those questions on their own blog. After it's all said and done, another post on the...
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