Reply to thread

Message

Yes, I take the SEC Football Schedule from secsports.com each year and highlight in green the wins and in pink the losses. I don't spend a lot of time on it, but I do give it some thought. One of the main things I do is look for "trap" games whereby a team might lose when least expected. Like the au at UM game. I think au has a tough loss at WV, spends half of the UM week looking back at that loss, and then spends the other half looking ahead to UGA. They go to Oxford and lose to UM. I see the same thing happening to ut and LSU for the same reasons. Northern Illinois for ut and SC for LSU. Of course, I have to know a little bit about all the teams to make those calls. Know your enemy, as you put it. I wouldn't pick UAB to beat ut, just because they were playing them after tough losses to UF and au. But NI is a different story. Only one of the 120 1A teams return more starters than does NI. Northern Illinois will have a good football team this year. And if memory serves me correctly, Bama was supposed to play them this year. WKU replaced them on the schedule. On second thought, I may have picked UAB over ut. UAB is probably as good this year as ULM was last year. Bama was "trapped" by them. Caught looking back at a tough tough loss to LSU, and looking ahead to au.

<blockquote data-quote="252BAMA" data-source="post: 428590" data-attributes="member: 13494"><p>Yes, I take the SEC Football Schedule from secsports.com each year and highlight in green the wins and in pink the losses. I don&#039;t spend a lot of time on it, but I do give it some thought. One of the main things I do is look for &quot;trap&quot; games whereby a team might lose when least expected. Like the au at UM game. I think au has a tough loss at WV, spends half of the UM week looking back at that loss, and then spends the other half looking ahead to UGA. They go to Oxford and lose to UM. I see the same thing happening to ut and LSU for the same reasons. Northern Illinois for ut and SC for LSU. Of course, I have to know a little bit about all the teams to make those calls. Know your enemy, as you put it. I wouldn&#039;t pick UAB to beat ut, just because they were playing them after tough losses to UF and au. But NI is a different story. Only one of the 120 1A teams return more starters than does NI. Northern Illinois will have a good football team this year. And if memory serves me correctly, Bama was supposed to play them this year. WKU replaced them on the schedule. On second thought, I may have picked UAB over ut. UAB is probably as good this year as ULM was last year. Bama was &quot;trapped&quot; by them. Caught looking back at a tough tough loss to LSU, and looking ahead to au.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="252BAMA, post: 428590, member: 13494"] Yes, I take the SEC Football Schedule from secsports.com each year and highlight in green the wins and in pink the losses. I don't spend a lot of time on it, but I do give it some thought. One of the main things I do is look for "trap" games whereby a team might lose when least expected. Like the au at UM game. I think au has a tough loss at WV, spends half of the UM week looking back at that loss, and then spends the other half looking ahead to UGA. They go to Oxford and lose to UM. I see the same thing happening to ut and LSU for the same reasons. Northern Illinois for ut and SC for LSU. Of course, I have to know a little bit about all the teams to make those calls. Know your enemy, as you put it. I wouldn't pick UAB to beat ut, just because they were playing them after tough losses to UF and au. But NI is a different story. Only one of the 120 1A teams return more starters than does NI. Northern Illinois will have a good football team this year. And if memory serves me correctly, Bama was supposed to play them this year. WKU replaced them on the schedule. On second thought, I may have picked UAB over ut. UAB is probably as good this year as ULM was last year. Bama was "trapped" by them. Caught looking back at a tough tough loss to LSU, and looking ahead to au. [/QUOTE]