I wouldn't be surprised at all. Ole Miss manages to have some quality talent. Not enough to be all that good, but probably enough to win 6 games with Nutt there now.


This is why I think Florida will be able to head back to the National Championship this year.
http://www.gatorcountry.com/football...ng_bullet/3925


"Imagine this. You’re the defensive coordinator of a Southeastern Conference team on Florida’s schedule this year. You’re sitting up in the booth, still trying to figure out what you’re going to do next time Dan Mullen slips Chris Rainey into the backfield to go along with Percy Harvin and Brandon James in the slots and suddenly the Gators break the huddle with Louis Murphy, Deonte Thompson, Percy Harvin and Chris Rainey. Then you notice the guy on the far side of the field. That’s Jeff Demps. We’re talking about trouble, right here in River City and that’s trouble with a capital T.
Murphy has run a 4.27 40 yards and he’s a sprinter on the Florida track team. Thompson has done 100 meters in 10.3 seconds, Harvin has done it in 10.4 and Rainey outran Walter Dix in the first leg of the 4X100 relay at the NCAA Track and Field Championships a couple of weeks ago.
And then there is Demps. Saturday he did a 10.01 in the hundred meters at the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon and by the way, he beat Dix to the tape in the quarter-final race in which he not only tied the world record for his age group, but broke the all-time American record for 100 meters by a high school kid."

College Football
 

It is RIGHT around the corner. I am giddy as a schoolgirl :cool:

I'm sure you've seen some of the major players for 2008 per most rankings:

Ohio State returns a REDICULOUS amount of starters.
Georgia ended last year strong, and looks good.
Oklahoma returns a nasty offense.
Missouri is the media darling.
Florida with the RB at QB.
SC breaking in a new QB.

What do you think?

I'd like to say there's a thread down around here somewhere.

Ohio State sucks. Can't wait for them to be proven overrated yet again.

The winner of Georgia v. Florida will win the National Championship.

It's SEC FOOTBALL!

EW, how do the pigs look? I'll be in Austin for that game this year for sures.

Yup, winner of Florida/Georgia will play for and win the national title as an undefeated or one loss team (LSU may beat one of them). UGA and UF are far and away the two best teams in the country this year though.

I'll be there, too. Texas had a good recruiting class, but ya never know. The last time we played the piggies in Austin, I was with my Texas friend and his Arkie wife. It wasn't a fun day.

I'm planning on getting down there. Not for sure yet.

Road trips this year include Lexington and Starkville, and possibly a bowl game.

I'm really dreading Starkville.

We already have a 2008 college football thread. I've merged them. Please keep it to one thread. Thanks.

A bowl appearance and nothing more.

Nutt is the epitome of mediaocrity.

I think it will help Ole Miss some, but Croom is still the best coach in the state. State and Ole Miss both make a bowl for the first time in a while, but aside from State maybe knocking off Bama again or something neither makes a lot of waves in the SEC this year.

Ole Miss will dread the day of getting Nutt...I know we did.

The very fact that we lost Kodi Burns and Lee Ziemba to Auburn proves everything.

Petrino is the recruitment master, however.

Think about that statement.

I am so thrilled that no one cares about Boise State anymore and they aren't on any important lists.

FU BSU.

LOL. My money says he still doesn't get it.

SECDomination: It's the same as Georgia/Florida, there's a "home team" every year, but it's played in Dallas (and has been since the early early 1900s).

Arkansas plays Texas A&M next year at the new Cowboys stadium. I'm excited.

That'll be very cool. I hadn't heard that.

In his defense, I think he cut and pasted those ranking from somewhere because I swear I've read that before.

Restarting an age-old rivalry.

Inserting a little break in the SEC love-fest going on, a moment of celebration and anticipation for life up here in the big stadiums:

http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/mult...8-3337-mid.jpg

University of Michigan started a multi-year renovation of their stadium after last season. The Big House will end up with over 108,000 seats.
http://mgoblue.com/Multimedia/Multim...tegoryId=82220

A few old photos:
http://search.live.com/images/result...dium&mkt=en-us

http://www.nmnathletics.com.edgesuit...0502181915.jpg


Night Record since 1960 - 207-59-3 (.774)
Overall Tiger Stadium Record: 361-139-18 (.714)

The Hogs survived it quite fine, thank ya.

Is there a ranking up for ALL college teams yet... like ones in the sun belt... Im hoping Texas does good this year, we didn't have a good year last year.

Barely, it only took three overtimes, eh?

It was a day game kickoff for LSU.

I'm kind of curious how LSU managed to pull 8 home games to 4 road games. Baton Rouge won't see decent action until the last week of October when Tiger Stadium will host four home in a row.

Would anyone like to do a college fantasy league? I modded one at Yahoo two years ago with some RL friends. From what I remember, you just pick teams to win, not players and stuff like that so it's easier to do.

Let me know what you think and if people are interested I'll set it up.

X-posted to NFL Fantasy thread.

.... where the wind comes sweeping down the plains......


http://www.stadiumpanoramics.com/ima...owen_field.jpg

This blog entry will please our SEC friends (I was pleased myself to see Penn State and other Big 10 representation in there as well) -- Rating College Football's Bests: Which Schools Have The Richest Tradition?

We all knew how much tradition we have down here already. College football isn't just Saturdays, it's my entire fall.

The lack of Auburn on that list does raise some doubts with me though. I don't like 'em, but the War Eagle circling Jordan-Hare and the "Weagle, weagle, war damn eagle" chant are some of the richer traditions in the SEC in my mind.

Anybody wanna do the Yahoo College Football Pick'em with me?? puh-leaze?? I did a league 2 years ago and it's so fun.

Pretty pretty please?? I promise this is the last time I'll ask.

http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/college

Let me know if you're interested and I'll set up the league.

ETA: Well, it doesn't look like you can join yet, but is anyone interested in joining when it does open up?

I'll join - we do a money pick'em pool anyway, so I can just port the ss to yahoo, plus add message board taunts that the SEC fans will have to look up in that dusty old antebellum dictionary in the guest quarters.

Awesome. I'll keep a watch on the site. Surely they'll be opening up registration soon.

The Pick'em site went up today.


League Name: GC Pick'em
League ID#: 1024
Password: GLOs

Let me know if you have problems finding it.

Here are the settings I chose. Let me know if you want them altered.

Use Confidence Points?: No
Use Spread?: Yes
Use Tiebreak System?: Yes
Start Updating Group in: Week 1
Drop Each Team's Lowest Scoring Week?: No, use all weeks
Select Deadline: 5 minutes before the first game of each week

came across this on fox sports: 10 toughest college football stadiums
it makes an interesting read.
http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/8...tball-stadiums

Oh, the memories. I'll comment on the Big 10 stadiums since I have never been to those the SEC


I have only been there once, but Michigan Stadium (The Big House) is very loud.
1. It is BIG. The capacity is 107,501, but has had 112,000+ in attendence for a game with Ohio State
2. Fans sit very close to the field
3. It was basically dug into the ground so the sound is consolidated

Beaver Stadium almost did in Ohio State Quarterbacks. Players couldn't hear the signals from the QB

Ohio Stadium (The Horseshoe) vibrates when the OSU band comes through the tunnel and the fans begin yelling. I've taken Texas alumnae to OSU games and they said UT games were never that loud.

I can't wait for the season to begin. USC here I come!

I've been absent a little while but this looks like a good time to comment.

LSU BAMA registered on the Richter Scale. What do you northerners know about that?

For some reason, I was thinking that every LSU game registered at some level, if it were a night game, I was thinking the Arkansas LSU game did as well.

Before getting snotty, read the first line of my post.

I actually got that wrong anyway, while several have registered the most notable was the 88 LSU-Auburn game, not Bama. I believe the 03 Bama game was pretty high too.

My apologies.

SEC
 

SEC Fans: The Force Behind The King of Conferences
by Brian Scott (Analyst)
Bleacher Report
August 13, 2008

A snippet from the article.

The truth is that fans are what drive college football programs. Ticket sales mean money, which leads to improved facilities, which leads to better recruits, which leads to bowl games, national television, and more money!

College football in the South is much more than a sport. It’s an event, and for many people, an interpersonal experience. It’s a daylong (several days for some) festival where people migrate to the mossy oaks of a Southern college campus and celebrate more than just their team. They celebrate life.

SEC football is a tradition that is passed down through generations like a wristwatch or a hunting rifle. As soon as anyone has a baby in the south, they get inundated with toddler clothes bearing the logo of a college football team (you gotta teach the kid early). You'll never set your eyes on a more proud human being than when a young father takes his new son to his first tailgate party.

By the way, here is normally where we would describe an SEC tailgate party, but that could be an article all on its own.

Oh, and speaking of kids, you know those friends of yours who got married and started having babies, so you basically never see them anymore unless someone gets married or dies? Well, you’ll see those guys every Saturday in the fall.

This is what drives the passion. Many compare their love of college football and team allegiance to a religion. In the South, we have God, country, and football—and depending on who you’re talking to, not necessarily in that order!