The SEC Mid-Season Progress Report.
Posted on | October 18, 2011 | No Comments
Trent Richardson is on pace for 30 Rushing Touchdowns. Please don't get hurt. Please?
What we’re looking at right now? We’re looking at a situation where we’re in a holding pattern on “power polls.” LSU will be 1, Alabama will be 2. Ole Miss will be 11, and Kentucky will be 12. Sure we can see Georgia and Arkansas fight it out for three and we can see who among Mississippi State, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt will end up at 10.
And yet? We’re at a point where everyone has reached the halfway mark. So, like a teacher who wants to screw with their most hooligan of students? It’s progress report time.
1. LSU A (Considering I thought this team was going to be 9-3? Between Jarrett Lee showing efficiency and Tyrann Mathieu being the hipster Heisman Candidate? This is a BCS worthy team.)
2. Alabama A (With the tearing of Marcus Lattimore’s knee ligaments, Trent Richardson has become a the running back superman. If they get to the BCS title game? Richardson has a shot at 30 scores.)
3. Arkansas A+ (Considering that team lost the piece that made them one of the best teams in the second half of 2010, the fact that it looks like Arkansas is going to get 10 wins is a bit of a feat. All seriousness? The Arkansas-LSU game is a scary proposition for the Bayou.)
4. Georgia B+ (Granted, they look like the favorites of the SEC East. But the fact is, they’ve won their last two games in sloppy fashions. Aaron Murray is averaging a pick per game. And Todd Grantham may be a jerk, but he’s getting some real results.)
5. South Carolina B (You know the one student that decides to stop showing up after mid-terms? After Stephen Garcia and Marcus Lattimore aren’t going to be around this year anymore, you can safely say South Carolina has senioritis.)
6. Auburn B- (I suppose that despite the statistical flaws of this team, Gene Chizik keeps finding ways to win close. They may not get to 8 wins, but for a team that lost everybody from 2010, this is a good consolidation season for the Chizik era.)
7. Florida B- (Granted, this is not the team we thought they were. But that being said, the Gators are a John Brantley away from going being a solid SEC team again. Shame Jeff Driskel got hurt at the same time.)
8. Tennessee C+ (A bump up for effort. The team in the first two weeks could have won nine or ten games. And while the team looks like they need to hustle to get to a bowl, 2012 looks like their bailiwick.)
9. Vanderbilt C (An A defense and an F offense. With Tyler Bray’s injury, they could steal their way to seven wins. And that would qualify James Franklin for sainthood.)
10. Ole Miss D (All seriousness? They’re meeting expectations to be a D-list team. They could get to 4 wins. It’s not enough to save Houston Nutt’s job, but the fact is they’re going to pass my horrendous expectations.)
11. Mississippi State D- (This was the most promising team of the SEC. Dan Mullen was supposed to be great. And yet? Here we are. Threatening to even surpass Cole’s lowest level of expectations.)
12. Kentucky F (It’s gone so bad people are expecting Kentucky to straight up lose to Jacksonville State. This is once a generation level bad.)
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- Prediction Pick Briefs, Week 7, featuring South Carolina at Mississippi State and LSU at Tennessee
- Prediction Pick Briefs, Week 6, featuring Alabama vs. Vanderbilt
- Alabama Season Preview Prediction Picks
- The SEC Awesomeness Ratings
- SEC Power Poll (Week 10)*
Tags: Aaron Murray > Dan Mullen > Gene Chizik > Houston Nutt > James Franklin > Jarrett Lee > Jeff Driskel > John Brantley > Marcus Lattimore > Power Poll > Rosin > Stephen Garcia > Todd Granthan > Trent Richardson > Tyler Bray > Tyrann Mathieu
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