🏈 TID, from HogSportstalk.com, predicts the West...

[Bama Bard]

Yes, I do.

I do think Spikes is the best linebacker in the SEC. But, I also think Rennie Curran isn't far behind him.

Darryl Gamble is a guy I'd love to have in Crimson...and Dent isn't too far behind Gamble.

If all of these guys returned next year they'd be the best LBer corps in the nation.

Georgia is going to have a good defense next year. It's overlooked right now IMO...but, I'll stand behind that statement until I'm proven wrong.

These are the same guys that gave up:

v Bama-- 41 points 130 yards rushing
v LSU--38 points 188 yards rushing
v Kentucky--38 points 226 yards rushing
v Ga Tech--45 points 409 yards rushing

Not too promising numbers. This prediction will be interesting to watch play out.

 

[TerryP]

These are the same guys that gave up:

v Bama-- 41 points 130 yards rushing
v LSU--38 points 188 yards rushing
v Kentucky--38 points 226 yards rushing
v Ga Tech--45 points 409 yards rushing

Not too promising numbers. This prediction will be interesting to watch play out.

Yes, and you are also looking at a defense (team) that was decimated by injuries last season. I don't know how many times one of their ends were injured last season on the DL - one lost for the season. They also lost one of their DT's for the season early on as well.

I'd have to research to find the exact number, but I recall it being real close to what our injury numbers looked like in 2004 when we found ourselves down to a 3rd string offensive backfield by November.

Personally, between their game vs Georgia Tech and the bowl game versus Michigan State I saw a dramatic improvement in their defense.

Consider, this is also the same group that only allowed about 30 yards rushing in that bowl...a good 100 yards less than Mich. St.'s average.

 

[252BAMA]

Now they are saying Tuesday for the East predictions.

 

[TerryP]

Now they are saying Tuesday for the East predictions.

The guy who wrote it, Throwitdeep, is literally on call 24 hrs a day, seven days a week. And, if he's saying tomorrow all that means is it was a busy weekend for a certain segment of "civil employees."

 

[kc]

If ‘Bama only had

two more OLinemen or one more play-maker at Wr or Rb I would easily have to go all the way up to an A+

I hope Trent and the other freshmen read this....

Clemson was wrong for thinking we had nothing because they had not seen it...I hope VT makes the same mistake. Also comparing what we saw from our OLine in the Sugar Bowl to what we will see this year is 'tarded.

 

[252BAMA]

Just changed my LSU at UGA prediction to an "L" for LSU.

My revised West predictions are:
Bama 8-0
Ole Miss 7-1
LSU 4-4 (wins tie breaker)
Ark 4-4
barn 1-7
MSU 0-8

Overall that gives me a 24-24 W-L for both the East and West now.

 

[TerryP]

Just changed my LSU at UGA prediction to an "L" for LSU.

My revised West predictions are:
Bama 8-0
Ole Miss 7-1
LSU 4-4 (wins tie breaker)
Ark 4-4
barn 1-7
MSU 0-8

Overall that gives me a 24-24 W-L for both the East and West now.

Why? And, the four losses for LSU to UF, UGA, Bama and ???...

 

[rick4bama]

Already there, Terry.:icon_salut:

That make two OFC that are member of the hog site.

 

[252BAMA]

Why? And, the four losses for LSU to UF, UGA, Bama and ???...

I always lean toward the home team in picks. Don't know why I picked LSU in the first place. I am 8-4(6-2) on UGA now.

The fourth loss for LSU is Ole Miss of course. I have them at 11-1(7-1).

 

[porkchop]

1. Alabama (10-2 Overall and 7-1 SEC) - The Tide will have an early test in Atlanta against Virgina Tech and with an inexperienced quarterback we believe the Tide will lose a close heart breaker. Now hold on Tide faithful, it gets better. Arkansas comes to Tuscaloosa 3 weeks later (after the Tide wins the Sun Belt of course) for the first SEC game of the year and Bama should win a great match up. The only road game that appears to be a problem is Ole Miss on October 10th and this game may very well decide who goes to Atlanta for the SEC championship. Home games versus Tennessee and LSU are always tough for Bama, but Nick Saban has to breathe a sigh of relief because they are in Tuscaloosa. The season always ends with Auburn and the Tide will hold up a second finger along side the middle one that has pointed toward the Plains since last year. Screw the THUMB! Auburn better get ready to fear the fist of Saban for many years to come. The Bottom Line - Alabama wins the west and goes to Atlanta once again.

A pretty sound projection in my opinion.

Don't hesitate to register over there...good rival forum.

I might be in the minority on this, but I do agree with the writer on LSU finishing with 3 losses. I'm not sold on Ole Miss finishing first or second either, like a lot of people are predicting. Ole Miss could finish that high, but the amount of hype being piled on that team is mind boggling. I'm not sure that they are that complete a team. Obviously they are improved, but I'm not predicting any top-5 finish for them like Brando is.

But back to LSU. They certainly have talent, but they have inexperience in areas as well. I'm not crazy about Miles either. He's proven before that he can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with the best of them. I've always thought that he was the type of coach that would cost his team a game or two a season, and I've not changed my opinion on that. Keep in mind that they also have to travel to Alabama, Ole Miss, and UGA. They get Florida at home, but that may not matter much. Three or more losses is not inconceivable IMHO.

 

[TerryP]

I always lean toward the home team in picks. Don't know why I picked LSU in the first place. I am 8-4(6-2) on UGA now.

The fourth loss for LSU is Ole Miss of course. I have them at 11-1(7-1).

Thought so (on OM) but wasn't sure.

On UGA you are Okie State, UF, Arkansas and who else as losses?

I'm still shocked at your Okie State pick...I'm still wondering if you have realized just how bad their defense was last year.

 

[252BAMA]

Thought so (on OM) but wasn't sure.

On UGA you are Okie State, UF, Arkansas and who else as losses?

I'm still shocked at your Okie State pick...I'm still wondering if you have realized just how bad their defense was last year.

GT is the other loss.

Again, the OSU pick is because of my leaning to the home team. Same with the Ark pick. I would never have picked them at UGA. And all of this despite the fact that, in this decade, only one of the 120 1A schools has a better winning % on the road than they do at home. Guess which one?

 

[TerryP]

GT is the other loss.

Again, the OSU pick is because of my leaning to the home team. Same with the Ark pick. I would never have picked them at UGA. And all of this despite the fact that, in this decade, only one of the 120 1A schools has a better winning % on the road than they do at home. Guess which one?

Vols?

 

[252BAMA]

Vols?

:rofl:

The winning % difference is only a couple of points, but never the less it is greater on the road than at home. In fact it is so close that if the 2007 and 2008 Bama-UGA games were reversed with the home team winning each, then UGA's winning % would be the same for both home and away at 83.35%.

 

[kc]

Bama still beats Va Tech. Period.