SEC Open Thread

[Irish#1]

Meh. Four of the five worst teams lost. The middle tier teams struggled. The top teams won easily. 10-4 opening weekend with the worst teams showing us why they're bad. Only surprise for me was finding out UT was even worse than expected... and I wasn't expecting much.

But SEC fans claim the SEC is brutal top to bottom.

 

[Valpodoc85]

How about a tennessee rutgers game?

 

[PANDFAN]

How about a tennessee rutgers game?

they actually won against umass....lol

 

[Andy in Sactown]

Meh. Four of the five worst teams lost. The middle tier teams struggled. The top teams won easily. 10-4 opening weekend with the worst teams showing us why they're bad. Only surprise for me was finding out UT was even worse than expected... and I wasn't expecting much.

Soooo, as a potential booster, whom do I make the check out to?

I know it didn't work out for Tennessee, but that's "kind of your jam." The formula for winning is less travel, lower admission requirements and bag men. Or bag laddies.

It's mostly scheduling, but cmon-- Week 1 is an annual pull out the checkbook and buy a win day down South.

SEC fans should own it. I've got a five year old niece with less delusion.

Queue the silence.

 

[ACamp1900]

But SEC fans claim the SEC is brutal top to bottom.

Types in addition to discussion.... sees "Queue the silence." just above...


Cell phone now silenced.

 

[Irishize]

SEC fans bring on the blowback themselves when they tout their greatness (b/c Bama & Georgia) and then lay an egg like week one. TBH, SEC (even the low tier teams) usually fare well in openers against P5 schools. For USCe to lose to UNC is inexcusable IMO.

That being said, the pendulum typically swings the other way sooner rather than later. I think they have a nice bounce back week w/ impressive wins over Texas and a close enough loss from Clemson that leads Arkansas, Ole Miss, MSUso, Mizzou, UT, USCe & KY fans to revile in the fact that the 4th or 5th best team in the SEC almost beat the best team in the ACC.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

The secret of LSU's success:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="und" dir="ltr"><a href="https://t.co/l6sEBNWzbe">https://t.co/l6sEBNWzbe</a> <a href="https://t.co/RWVBSHuzRv">pic.twitter.com/RWVBSHuzRv</a></p>— Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewschmitz/status/1179059399597445120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[ACamp1900]

The secret of LSU's success:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="und" dir="ltr"><a href="https://t.co/l6sEBNWzbe">https://t.co/l6sEBNWzbe</a> <a href="https://t.co/RWVBSHuzRv">pic.twitter.com/RWVBSHuzRv</a></p>— Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewschmitz/status/1179059399597445120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Sounds like me during family game night.....

 

[InKellyWeTrust]

The secret of LSU's success:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="und" dir="ltr"><a href="https://t.co/l6sEBNWzbe">https://t.co/l6sEBNWzbe</a> <a href="https://t.co/RWVBSHuzRv">pic.twitter.com/RWVBSHuzRv</a></p>— Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewschmitz/status/1179059399597445120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

CTE is real

 

[Irishize]

The secret of LSU's success:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="und" dir="ltr"><a href="https://t.co/l6sEBNWzbe">https://t.co/l6sEBNWzbe</a> <a href="https://t.co/RWVBSHuzRv">pic.twitter.com/RWVBSHuzRv</a></p>— Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewschmitz/status/1179059399597445120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I like how they reference his pregame locker room antics before the Citrus Bowl vs ND. How’d that work out for them?

 

[Bishop2b5]

To be fair, there was more to it than this. Coach O later explained, "Morhoe gfffmmur amgtka-lafurngnmaaso, boduukghuea ahned aiyeah alguogkk lrrmneuut rgn tgfn orromooruah ghuv bltr murfm."

 

[ACamp1900]

To be fair, there was more to it than this. Coach O later explained, "Morhoe gfffmmur amgtka-lafurngnmaaso, boduukghuea ahned aiyeah alguogkk lrrmneuut rgn tgfn orromooruah ghuv bltr murfm."

Someone help embed please??? Lol:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dO2uAKwhB0Q

 

[Bishop2b5]

Someone help embed please??? Lol:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dO2uAKwhB0Q

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dO2uAKwhB0Q" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

[Legacy]

SEC record against P5 conference teams 5-5 plus wins over Independents ND, NM State and loss to BYU.

Big 10 -- 3-5 Additionally, wins over Independents UMass, Army
B12 -- 4-4
Pac 12 -- 5-3 Also, wins over Independents BYU (x2), NM St and loss to BYU
ACC - 3-6. Also, Independents - win over Liberty, two losses to ND

If ND is the only P5 team, records are:
SEC 6-5
B10 - 4-4
B12 - 4-4
Pac 12 - 5-3
ACC - 3-8

Should BYU count as a Power 5 opponent?

 

[IrishLax]

Anyone watching Florida vs Missouri? Missouri just got jobbed on one of the worst calls I’ve ever seen to take an interception away. Wow.

Both players have hands on the ball, then going to the ground the Missouri player ends up with it. At no point did the Florida player come remotely close to have possession or completing a catch. A ref came in and overruled others to call “simultaneous possession” and then it stood on review.

 

[Irish YJ]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Stretcher our for the photographer 🙏<a href="https://t.co/ZJ4id9SOlv">pic.twitter.com/ZJ4id9SOlv</a></p>— BetOnline.ag (@betonline_ag) <a href="https://twitter.com/betonline_ag/status/1195830309415198720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Bishop2b5]

https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401110863

Poetic justice. Yesterday Ole Miss mounted a 4th quarter comeback against Miss. St. and scored a TD with 4 seconds left in the game to pull within 1 point. The receiver who caught the TD then imitated a dog by crawling on the ground in the end zone and raising his leg as if he was urinating. The refs flagged it as unsportsmanlike. That moved the extra point attempt back 15 yards, making it a 35 yard attempt for the tie... which the kicker then missed.

Nice job dipshit. Your showboating likely cost your team the game, or at least the opportunity to win it in overtime. Dabo would've made him ride back on the bus with the equipment managers and Saban would've screamed at him until he cried and needed therapy and demoted him to the practice squad.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Yeah that Egg Bowl 4th quarter was WILD

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[Irishize]

https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401110863

Poetic justice. Yesterday Ole Miss mounted a 4th quarter comeback against Miss. St. and scored a TD with 4 seconds left in the game to pull within 1 point. The receiver who caught the TD then imitated a dog by crawling on the ground in the end zone and raising his leg as if he was urinating. The refs flagged it as unsportsmanlike. That moved the extra point attempt back 15 yards, making it a 35 yard attempt for the tie... which the kicker then missed.

Nice job dipshit. Your showboating likely cost your team the game, or at least the opportunity to win it in overtime. Dabo would've made him ride back on the bus with the equipment managers and Saban would've screamed at him until he cried and needed therapy and demoted him to the practice squad.

I assumed everyone saw that live. Epic finish between two bad teams. The same idiot who ‘pissed’ away the win called for a fair catch as a punt returner....after he caught the punt.

 

[Irish YJ]

https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401110863

Poetic justice. Yesterday Ole Miss mounted a 4th quarter comeback against Miss. St. and scored a TD with 4 seconds left in the game to pull within 1 point. The receiver who caught the TD then imitated a dog by crawling on the ground in the end zone and raising his leg as if he was urinating. The refs flagged it as unsportsmanlike. That moved the extra point attempt back 15 yards, making it a 35 yard attempt for the tie... which the kicker then missed.

Nice job dipshit. Your showboating likely cost your team the game, or at least the opportunity to win it in overtime. Dabo would've made him ride back on the bus with the equipment managers and Saban would've screamed at him until he cried and needed therapy and demoted him to the practice squad.

 

[ickythump1225]

No offense to our resident Bama fans but watching them lose a second game in a season is a euphoric event.

 

[greyhammer90]

No offense to our resident Bama fans but watching them lose a second game in a season is a euphoric event.

Agreed.

 

[dublinirish]

https://www.onlineathens.com/sports/20200226/georgia-defensive-lineman-wyatt-arrested

Georgia defensive lineman Devonte Wyatt was arrested late Tuesday night on three charges.

Wyatt and a female were in a verbal altercation last Friday night that led to Wyatt kicking the female’s exterior McWhorter Hall apartment door multiple times from the hallway to force it open according to a UGA police incident report obtained by the Athens Banner-Herald.

 

[Ndaccountant]

No other place to put this, but this is awesome.





<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mike Leach on watching Netflix <a href="https://t.co/xm2LAU1B5z">pic.twitter.com/xm2LAU1B5z</a></p>— Joey (@JoeyMulinaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeyMulinaro/status/1220476307919818754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nick Saban after opening Christmas gifts <a href="https://t.co/gnqHPDIowH">pic.twitter.com/gnqHPDIowH</a></p>— Joey (@JoeyMulinaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeyMulinaro/status/1209890301889929216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 25, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">*Mrs. Swinney getting ready*<br><br>“Honey, why’s it so important to be early for this dinner in New Orleans?” <br><br>Dabo: <a href="https://t.co/WVhSB0Vges">pic.twitter.com/WVhSB0Vges</a></p>— Joey (@JoeyMulinaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeyMulinaro/status/1213204216254226437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[dublinirish]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sources: Ole Miss football players have agreed with boosters to take a voluntary 10% pay cut for the duration of the pandemic <a href="https://t.co/lyS909sYmq">pic.twitter.com/lyS909sYmq</a></p>— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) <a href="https://twitter.com/RedditCFB/status/1250142713917452293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[T Town Tommy]

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...r-quinton-dunbar-after-alleged-armed-robbery/

Guess they can be called lock down corners now.

 

[dublinirish]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sources confirm <a href="https://twitter.com/bamainsider?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bamainsider</a> report that at least 5 Alabama players have tested positive for COVID-19<br><br>I'm told the players were tested Tuesday, practiced together Wednesday, and received the positive results today (Thurs). Source tells me that no players showed symptoms/signs...</p>— Simone Eli (@SimoneEli_TV) <a href="https://twitter.com/SimoneEli_TV/status/1268622295519592448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[NDBoiler]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sources confirm <a href="https://twitter.com/bamainsider?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bamainsider</a> report that at least 5 Alabama players have tested positive for COVID-19<br><br>I'm told the players were tested Tuesday, practiced together Wednesday, and received the positive results today (Thurs). Source tells me that no players showed symptoms/signs...</p>— Simone Eli (@SimoneEli_TV) <a href="https://twitter.com/SimoneEli_TV/status/1268622295519592448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Wonder if this will lead to the programs who can manage it to have a second set of workout equipment and the like for the Covid positive players only. That way if they are symptom free and able to, they can still work out.

 

[T Town Tommy]

Wonder if this will lead to the programs who can manage it to have a second set of workout equipment and the like for the Covid positive players only. That way if they are symptom free and able to, they can still work out.

My concern is more to the fact that I believe the schools will really have to consider each player when they actually get fall exams before actual practicing starts. Since the virus is looked at as cardiovascular issues, the concerns go up even more simply due to the extreme conditioning the players go through. Throw in those players who may have preexisting childhood conditions and the likelihood that some players - even some elite players - may be lost for the season before it even begins. I would bet that the NCAA puts some pretty extreme conditions in place on schools to try and prevent potential liability issues.

With all that said, I do believe the players being back on campus has it's upside. They can be monitored and receive much better medical care.

 

[Irish#1]

Article on si.com says SEC moving closer to a conference only schedule for this year. The opening sentence of the article made me laugh.

For years, SEC fans have clamored for fewer games against lower-level squads and more big-time matchups with opponents of their own teams’ stature.