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Mullen in at Mississippi State
It's being reported nearly everywhere, but apparently Florida OC Dan Mullen will be the new head guy in Starkville. This is about as good a hire as the Bulldogs could expect to make.After being woeful on offense under Croom for 4 years, MSU AD Greg B...
Some links and thoughts on Championship Saturday
* Most of you have probably seen this, but if you haven't, the Orlando Sentinel has a look at how college football would be different if Tebow had chosen Alabama over Florida. The effects would have been far reaching, sure, but it's really just a flu...
Thoughts from an eventful weekend in the SEC
* First things first: Love him or hate him, it was the end of an era as the final seconds ticked off the clock in Neyland Stadium Saturday night. While Fulmer was certainly an easy target, his record - particularly early in his tenure - speaks for it...
Random Bits
* There were 4 SEC baseball stadiums named to Rivals Top 10 list, though it may not be the ones you thought it would be. The site offers this disclaimer:LSU and South Carolina were omitted from our list because both schools have ballparks that still ...
2008 Vanderbilt = 2007 Mississippi State?
Hats off to Bobby Johnson and Vanderbilt making their first visit to the Top 25 in 24 years. The Commodores have run out to a 4-0 start and have a handful of winnable games left on their schedule. Barring a collapse, they'll be bowling for the first ...
Rivals Top 100 NFL Draft Prospects
Yesterday, Rivals put up their early look at the NFL Draft Top 100 prospects. Needless to say, the SEC was well represented, landing 26 players on the list, including the top 3 spots. The wealth is spread out amongst the league as 10 teams land at le...
2008 SEC West Predictions
Every team in the West has questions this year - How will Auburn do running the spread for a full season? What kind of production will LSU get from its QBs? Will Alabama greatly improve in year 2 under Nick Saban? Can Houston Nutt win in Oxford with ...
Not too much going on these days...
Other than what seems to be a twice-weekly occurrence of players being booted off teams, all's quiet for now. Well, except for Urban Meyer. Most of you have probably heard about this...Simply calling Tim Tebow the best quarterback in college football...
Could the SEC have 10 Bowl Teams in 2008-09?
ESPN's Mark Schlabach believes that 10 SEC teams will be bowling at the end of the 2008 season. He predicts: *Georgia vs Ohio State in the National Title Game (Oh goody, tOSU vs the SEC in a bowl game... How exciting!) *Auburn vs Texas Tech in the S...
Why you should love every college football team
The guys over at Cake Rocks the Party have put together a list of reasons to pull for every team in the country. Some are quite funny, some not so much. But in a college-football starved region of the country, it’s certainly worth a read.For those ...
Ron Polk is not a happy camper
You know how sometimes, after somebody's been around for awhile and has accomplished a few things, he starts to get something of an inflated opinion of himself and his place in the pecking order? Well that's about where now former Mississippi State b...
Memorial Day Linkage
* Fox Sports has a good read up about the rivalry between Stafford and Tebow – who not surprisingly are the only SEC QBs listed in Rivals top 25 QBs in the country. You can argue until you’re blue in the face about which one is better, but t...
Links for a Friday
I've been out of the Blogosphere for a while, but I've still come across some interesting reads while on the road with work and family...* Rivals has a look at the upcoming rules changes for the 2008-09 college basketball season, including emphasis o...
A little bit of everything
Fox Sports has 20 burning questions about the 2008 college football season, including a few involving the SEC.#5- Which teams will be the most disappointing?Alabama- not quite there yet, but the fans are getting impatient. It takes time to build a gr...
Bracketology 2009
Now that the 2007-08 college basketball season is days behind us, it's obviously high time to release predictions for next year's tournament. Regardless of how silly it is to try and predict next year's bracket in April, it should be a better Dance f...
A look at the SEC's Pairings in the Big Dance
Been away from the interwebs for the past few days, but I'm back now. But what a weekend in Atlanta. And, after back to back one-and-done performances, it's safe to - at least for now - it's no longer Catlanta. My SEC Tourney bracket was way off as I...
SEC football teams: Middle Eastern versions
This has been circulating on the message boards today, but it's worth posting...ALABAMA:Saudi Arabia - Once a proud country but wrecked by infighting and surrounded by enemies on all sides...Syria and Iraq have dominated them for years...very superst...
New Basketball Rankings (Jan. 21) + Links
SSDD. Another week has come and gone and the same 3 SEC teams are ranked. There is a difference in the ARV column as Arkansas is no longer receiving votes after losing 2 games against the worst 2 teams in the SEC East. Mississippi State, once just an...
Random Basketball Thoughts (1/17)
Even a mere 3 games into conference play, the heat has definitely been turned up to a different level. The story to this point has been Mississippi State – who struggled mightily in the non-conference portion of their schedule – has come out like...
2008 SEC Basketball Preview
While the conference is down this year as a whole, the SEC is the only conference with 2 undefeated teams – Ole Miss and Vanderbilt. The divisional battles should be highly entertaining as well. Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, and Arkansas appear ...
A look at the Liberty Bowl
Mississippi State (7-5, 4-4) University of Central Florida (10-3)Memphis, TNToday’s Line: UCF -3Bulldog Rankings: (Conference, NationallyTotal Offense: 305.2 (12th, 112th)Offensive PPG: 22.4 (10th, 93rd)Total Defense: 341.2 (5th, 28th)Defensive PPG...
