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Posts posted by Vertigo
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2 hours ago, texifornia said:
The woman in that pic looks like she just got surprise poopered.
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52 minutes ago, EZ$ said:
Can someone add Heisman/1st Rounder Weigman to the QBU graphic?
The vomiting pic would be chef's kiss
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23 minutes ago, closetojumping said:
@BurntOrange&White will kiss your ass in public and give you 30 minutes to draw a crowd if Michigan beats USC on Saturday.
Having watched their offense 3 times now, man, I don't see how they're getting above 10 points against competent defenses. They're going to need some defensive scores and black magic to put up enough points to beat that USC offense. The only other hope is that the front seven just shreds the USC OL, I guess.
Their defense is still damn good, I don't think USC is capable of doing what we did on the scoring front against them. Who knows, Orji might pop a run or two and get them going. I have low hopes that they will win, but it should be closer than our game.
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1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:
I'm in Seattle without a computer, so someone else is going to have to post Graham's new power ranking. A NEW NUMBER ONE!!!
This shit is way too time consuming, but this belongs in the Louvre.
SpoilerPower ranking the SEC after College Football week 3: Texas A&M football on the rise as new team claims top spot
Conference play has hardly begun, but the SEC has already been a wild ride this year. This latest batch of games has some fans claiming that Georgia isn't even a top-3 team after their struggles on the road against Kentucky, for example.
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There's still a lot of football left to play, of course. There are so many teams that have yet to face any challenges—and a couple that have faced nothing but challenges so far.
All that said, let's jump right in and take a look at how the power rankings shake out for the SEC this week.
Power ranking the SEC after week 3: #16 - Mississippi State
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16 Mississippi State Bulldogs
Previous ranking: 14
I am so sorry, but you cannot lose to Toledo and not come in last on this list, unless someone else somehow lost to Toledo as well. And that’s impossible!
Mississippi State looked like they may have had something going in week one with a relatively competent performance (such as it was) against Eastern kentucky, but whatever momentum might have been there is now completely out the window. It has been replaced with a loss to Toledo.
We have what is, in SEC terms, possibly the pillow fight of the century this weekend when the Bulldogs host the Florida Gators at noon this weekend. I legitimately have no idea how to pick that game.
15 Florida Gators
Previous ranking: 15
Here’s the other half of Irrelevancy Bowl 2024, almost in last place—but not quite! The Gators, at least, beat the lower-division team they were supposed to when they took care of business against Samford last week.
This is a team that looks like they have just kind of given up. They showed a little bit of fight after going down 33-7 to take some action against an insanely conservative gameplan, where Texas A&M was clearly just trying to get out of dodge with a backup QB, but there’s way too many qualifiers there to read any sort of optimism into this.
The most interesting question about the Gators at this point is not whether Billy Napier gets canned, but how quickly it happens. If it’s not this week, then surely a loss to Mississippi State would do it, right? And there’s no way a win in Starkville does anything for this program… would it?
We may not have to answer that question. I’m writing this on Sunday night, so it’s entirely possible Napier is gone before I actually get this published.
14 Arkansas Razorbacks
Previous ranking: 12
Meanwhile, here are the Hogs, just humming along after a battle in Stillwater, coming back home to match up against UAB in what should be a snooze-fest—at least, after what we saw out of their offense the first two weeks, it should be. Right?
I don’t think I’m the only one who came into this game with this line of reasoning; hence, many being surprised to see the Blazers going up 17-3 on the Hogs. How’d that happen? Well, Taylen Green all of a sudden didn’t quite look like Cam Newton anymore, basically.
They pulled it out at the end, of course, and this one may well just be a letdown game for Arky. Or maybe a lookahead game as the Hog staff anticipates a trip out to the Plains to take on the Auburn Tigers.
In any case, it’s looking like Bobby P’s magic may not be enough to buoy the Hogs all year. There will, in fact, be down stretches! If you’re an Arkansas fan, you just hope they don’t last long.
They might lose to UCF. I’m sorry, but… there’s a strong possibility this team goes 2-10. That’s partially a function of the schedule, but this kind of thing begins to snowball.
13 Vanderbilt Commodores
Previous ranking: 11
The proof-of-concept win over Virginia Tech and the followup shellacking of Alcorn State are doing a lot of work to keep the Commodores out of the bottom three here. Losing to Georgia State in Atlanta (which, I would just like to point out, I called as their top trap game in the preseason) is a tough look, even for Vandy.
Still, though, this team shows fight. They roared back to take the lead in the back half of the game after looking abysmal for most of it, and that’s something to build off of. Diego Pavia is still a baller.
Things aren’t getting any easier for the ‘Dores in their quest for bowl eligibility, though. A trip to Missouri comes ahead of a bye week; on the other side, Alabama awaits. Those games have not gone well for Vandy in years past, in case you were wondering.
Right now, Kentucky and Auburn are the best chances this team has to get a couple of SEC wins. Ball State comes to town as well, which should be a win. If they hope to get a bowl berth now, they have to not only beat the Tigers and Wildcats, but find a win against Texas, South Carolina, LSU, or Tennessee.
12 Auburn Tigers
Previous ranking: 13
My opinion of Auburn hasn’t changed at all since their loss to Cal. They changed quarterbacks, in case you didn’t see, shelving Payton Thorne for freshman Hank Brown (let me know which of those is a more Auburn name).
Even so, they struggled to pull away from the New Mexico Lobos. They eventually were able to do so, but not without an inordinate amount of trouble.
I’m just going to need to see more from the Tigers against some legit defenses before they move out of this lower quadrant here. Arkansas will be something of a test, but it’s the visit from Oklahoma that I have my eye on.
Also, in another scheduling quirk, Auburn plays the Sooners on September 28. Their next home game is against Vanderbilt on November 2. I’m not quite sure who let that one slip through, but it’s one of the stranger things I’ve seen on a conference schedule in some time.
11 Kentucky Wildcats
Previous ranking: 16
The Wildcats were in dead last in the previous edition of these rankings, thanks mostly to what appeared to be a complete inability to operate an offense against South Carolina. They’ve somewhat redeemed themselves… but not entirely.
Their biannual scare of Georgia in Lexington once more convened on Saturday, and the Dawgs escaped by one point. That was much more the Kentucky I expected to see this season, if not the Georgia I expected to.
The offensive line looked far more competent, and the defensive line looked much more disruptive. UGA was without star DL Mykel Williams, and the Bulldogs lack the kind of speed rusher that South Carolina has in Dylan Stewart, but it was still an impressive showing by the Cats.
They need to get back on track with a win over the Ohio Bobcats this week before a daunting trip to Ole Miss. Likely wins follow with a home game against Vandy and a trip to the Swamp. 3-1 in the next four would be a heck of a way to break out of your slump.
10 Oklahoma Sooners
Another game from OU still gives me very little confidence that they’ve figured things out. Tulane—admittedly a good G5 team, but a G5 team nonetheless, hung around for way too long here.
The Sooners eventually pulled away thanks to some strong defense and Jackson Arnold carrying the ball, both of which seem like recipes for success this season. But now, things are about to get real for the currently-undefeated Sooners.
The next five games for the Crimson and Cream are as follows: home against Tennessee, at Auburn, Red River, hosting South Carolina, and at Ole Miss. A brief reprieve against Maine precedes the closeout stretch of Missouri, Alabama, and LSU.
It’s extremely possible that that’s only two wins out of nine remaining games. Now, do I think that’s how they finish? No. I think the Sooners can get to seven wins—eight if they beat Texas—but there’s no doubt this is a tough row to hoe. We’ll find out soon what OU is made of.
9 LSU Tigers
Previous ranking: 8
Some may notice that I have LSU ranked below the team they beat on Saturday. Anyone who watched that game, outside of the state of Louisiana, will understand why.
That was a really disappointing game to follow. There were a bevy of 50/50 calls—and some not even that close—that went in the favor of the Tigers to help them win that game, not to mention the opposing quarterback going down with injury after carving them up in the first half.
LSU’s defense is still a gigantic concern. Now, it looks kind of like they’re about to play a team who is a nice remedy for defensive issues in the UCLA Bruins, who have a grand total of 29 points through two games (against Hawaii and Indiana), so maybe that helps them get on track.
There’s still absolutely no excuse for the misuse of Harold Perkins in Blake Baker’s defense, however. Especially now that their best DT is out for the year in Guillory, this is simply a run defense that is too soft. They’re lucky to have two wins so far, and they may need them in order to sniff eight by the end of the season.
8 South Carolina Gamecocks
Previous ranking: 9
And here are the Tigers’ counterparts from this past game. Shane Beamer’s squad deserved a huge, program-changing win on Saturday, and it’s a real shame they didn’t get it after how most of that game went.
But that’s life in the SEC. You have to fight through things like quarterback injuries, and the Gamecocks were unable to do so in this one. After the threat of Sellers was no longer a factor in this one, the LSU defense was able to key in on the Carolina offense, and all but shut them down.
Going forward, though, this is a dangerous team. Carolina has a really, really tough schedule ahead of them—not Florida tough, but what is? Akron will be a nice way to coast into the bye, and pending Sellers’ injury, he could be back by the time Ole Miss comes into town on October 5.
If I’m the Rebels, I’ve got that one circled as a trap game. I don’t know if the Gamecocks will have what it takes to take down the Tide the following week, but OU right after looks very gettable. Win one of those two, and all you need to do to get to a bowl is beat Vandy and Wofford.
7 Missouri Tigers
Previous ranking: 5
The Tigers held onto their top-10 ranking in the AP poll this week, but just barely. Mizzou, after dominating, uh, Buffalo and Murray State, struggled mightily against Boston College—who, to be fair, might be pretty good.
I liked what I saw out of Brady Cook in terms of moxie, but I’m really not convinced he’s a game-changer at quarterback. The run game was questionable as well against a smaller BC front, which will be a storyline to watch in the Tigers’ two big road games—A&M and Alabama.
But you have to feel good about your ace in the hole—Luther Burden. The top-rated receiver in the class of 2022 is continuing to stake out a position as a first-round receiver, with dazzling catches and runs week in and week out.
Theo Wease is a nice second option for the Tigers, but I’m not feeling amazing about their ability to consistently create offense against elite defenses with just those two guys. It’s the Mizzou defense that has overachieved so far, in my book, and the offense hasn’t quite been what I wanted to see.
6 Texas Longhorns
Previous ranking: 7
The Longhorns, sitting at no. 2 in the Coaches’ Poll, are continuing to make a lot of hay with that win over Michigan—one that looks like it will continue to sour with each passing week, after the Wolverines beat Arkansas State by only ten.
The same old issues keep cropping up. Quinn Ewers threw another extremely questionable interception shortly before he exited the game with an abdominal strain. Arch Manning was able to find the talented Longhorn receivers against the UTSA defensive backs for the rest of the game, but rushing acumen on both sides of the ball hasn’t been there.
The Longhorns allowed nearly a yard per carry more than the Roadrunners average, and they themselves earned their worst PPA/rush of the year at 0.028. For context, that’s worse than A&M against Notre Dame, Vanderbilt against Virginia Tech, or Kentucky against Georgia.
The Longhorns have been able to take advantage of overmatched teams and inept offenses so far on defense, putting up impressive numbers in YPA allowed and defensive third down conversion rate. But when they face more capable offensive units, you can’t help but feel that their ineptitude in these facets will end up coming back to bite them.
5 Texas A&M Aggies
Previous ranking: 6
After a dominant performance in the Swamp—one that came against the team that, yes, is the occupant of the second-to-last spot in these here rankings—the Aggies are right back on track. Doing it with a backup QB in a road environment isn’t half-bad, either.
The Ags, outside of areas affected by injury, seem like they’ve improved every single week. The QB play wasn’t as good this week as it was the week prior, even adjusting for opponent, but the offensive line more than made up for it.
The Aggies also shored up their rush defense and bottled up the Gators on the ground. Their soft zones in the second half allowed UF to pick some plays up underneath, but it was tough sledding for most of the day for the hometown team.
A&M gets a game against Bowling Green, who just pushed Penn State to the limit, before they head to Dallas for the Southwest Classic. Hopefully, Weigman will be ready to go by the time Missouri rolls into town—I think he should, but you never know with these kinds of injuries.
This is a team that has figured out its identity offensively. The early game against a staunch Notre Dame defense, even though it resulted in a loss, could end up serving the Ags well by the time the season ends.
4 Ole Miss Rebels
Previous ranking: 4
Is it just me, or is Ole Miss beginning to look kind of bored running up all these points on teams? Wake Forest is no doubt the best team they’ve played so far (which should probably tell you a lot about their schedule to this point, but it kind of looked like—dare I say it—that they laid off the gas!
It was still a disgustingly dominant performance statistically, as you’d expect out of a team like Ole Miss against Wake Forest. With Kentucky lagging behind, it’s beginning to seem more and more that the Rebels won’t have a true test until… I don’t know, Georgia on November 9?
Like I said, you have to be careful of trap games, and that trip to Columbia looks more and more like it may be just that. It will be no easy task to get through that one and the ensuing trip to Red Stick, but I can’t help but feel that coming through that stretch unscathed is tantamount to a ticket to the SEC championship game.
This all, of course, is allowing for the fact that injuries may end up playing more of a part than any of us want to see. If the Rebs don’t lose any top contributors, I’m thinking it is pretty likely they end up in Atlanta.
3 Alabama Crimson Tide
Previous ranking: 3
Alabama did what you’re supposed to do against Wisconsin, and in emphatic fashion. Call me crazy, but I think this one ends up just as or more impressive than the Longhorns’ win against Michigan by year’s end.
Now, the Tide get a nice week off before what promises to be the game of the year in Tuscaloosa. Georgia rolls into town on September 28 for what may be an SEC championship—heck, even a playoff—preview early on in the year.
This will be quite the early test for Kalen DeBoer. He looks like he’s figured something out on offense, excepting the South Florida debacle, and it will be interesting to see how that game unfolds, given how unfocused the Bulldogs looked against Kentucky.
The most interesting result, to me, is if the Tide lose at home. That’s an eminently understandable outcome, of course, but I’ll be watching closely to see if there’s any unrest emanating from the Alabama faithful were that result to come to pass. After all, Saban only lost to Kirby once.
2 Georgia Bulldogs
Previous ranking: 1
The Bulldogs lose their grip on the top spot by virtue of their performance against Kentucky. I called it “unfocused,” which I think is a decent word to describe what we saw up in Lexington: the Dawgs, though clearly the more talented team, simply couldn’t get into gear against the Wildcats.
Some teams just have those bugaboos, though. Given the last three visits to UK for the Bulldogs, it looks like their trips up there fall into that category. Were they already looking ahead to Bama? Distracted by off-field issues? I really have no idea.
If it continues, though, so will their slide in these rankings. They’ve built up a ton of equity with most fans, and for good reason. The numbers still really like the team so far, and that Clemson win looks like it will age well for them.
All that said, though, it is, in fact, an assumption at this point that what we saw against Kentucky won’t rear back up at any other point. The Bulldogs have a heck of a schedule coming down the pike, starting with Bama on September 28. They can ill-afford to have another lapse like that.
1 Tennessee Volunteers
Previous ranking: 2
Well, well, well. Josh Heupel has done it again.
Maybe I shouldn’t say “again,” I guess. I don’t think that the previous Vol team we saw in 2022 was even this good.
That has a lot to do with Nico Iamalaeava. The star freshman has led the Vols to the highest points per play mark in the conference, as well as the highest points per drive mark.
The defense needs their fair share of credit as well. That unit for the Big Orange has been absolutely stifling so far this year.
Because of the schedules, I don’t think this will happen, but I’d love to see an SEC championship between Tennessee and Ole Miss. There would certainly be a lot of fireworks!
That schedule is the biggest issue here for the Vols. Games against UGA and Bama loom large—lose one, and you’re teetering; lose two, and you’re pretty much out of the conversation to get to Atlanta.
I don’t see many other pitfalls here for the Vols, though. I think they eviscerate OU this week en route to an eventual playoff berth come December—it’s the SEC championship that’s the biggest question for me through three weeks in Knoxville.
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1 hour ago, skipmcgee said:
Arch finished as a .9995, not a 1.0000.
ESPN had him ranked as the #3 QB…
Well Mack Brown had him rated as the number one safety so that should count for something.
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1 hour ago, Newy25 said:
Napier is about to get fired. Who do we target on their roster? Eugene Wilson to put with Wingo and Cook next year?
Can we get Deontre Robinson back?
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Man are they regretting that contract extension right about now.
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6 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:
That's when he got popped on the shoulder and dropped...also when he threw up after the next play
Honestly, if he got hurt on a QB sneak then this kid is made of glass. The physics of that play make it almost impossible for the defense to get a square shot on the QB. At worst, he just gets piled on by a few guys. If he got hurt on that play, then the first real hit he took he might just shatter on the field.
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27 minutes ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:
I don't know about that. Surly has some funny fucking people. Find me anyone from Florida who has their own @HenryJames @THUJONE or @Hank Scorpio
Hey fuck you, guy.
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1 hour ago, 6th Street said:
Losing 5 rotational DT in Collins, Broughton, Norton, Lole, and Savea.
Returning Bledsoe, January, Bryant, and Mitchell. Getting 4 in this class would be huge in terms of rebuilding depth.
I would imagine we will still target 1 or two guys in the portal for next year regardless, but I agree. 4 high end freshmen to develop would be huge.
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3 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:I only go to Reddit for arcane or very specific technical questions. That usually involves so many jackasses that I couldn’t imagine being around shit talking idiots on a college football sub.
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1 hour ago, texifornia said:
Dante Moore? Oof that pup did not bite year one.
I remember looking at him coming out of high school thinking that this guy has no business being a five star. He was limited as a passer, seemed to throw into coverage, and had really terrible mechanics. If you want to hitch your wagon to that guy then best of luck. He is the Gabriel Brownlow-Dindy of 5 star QBs
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23 minutes ago, closetojumping said:
Injuries. The starting safety transfer from Washington appeared to have torn his knee up early against Miami. 3 of the 7 DBs are "Questionable", but their mods are implying that that is bullshit and they're not actually going to play.
What fresh hell did Napier put their team through in camp? Did he just have the DBs run oklahoma drills against each other for 3 hours?
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I have a hard time believing Florida loses this game. Napier and his dumbassery aside, If they even get half of the production out of Lagway they got last week they would win. Weigman will not eclipse 200 yards again this week.
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3 minutes ago, Bodacious Bevo said:
I'm expecting to see a lot of Niblett the next three weeks. Coaches will need to figure out what he can be trusted to do before we get to the meat of the schedule.
Gibson being the backup to Blue and Niblett being the backup to Wisner is the best case scenario and what I think they are going for, with Velton Gardner playing spot duty.
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5 minutes ago, westexhorn said:
Watched the whole thing last night and now I'm sleep starved. That being said, kinda surprised to find out how much Sark the OC big dicked little Wink
Wink was one of the lowest rated NFL DCs in his last stop if I recall. He is a sharp guy, but Sark ran circles around him this game.
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9 minutes ago, alincoln said:
MO also only plays 2 ranked teams while LSU, Ole Miss and TN only play 3.
Texas has arguably the easiest SEC schedule but it’s close to 5 other teams in the conference, including aggy.
Aggy keeps bitching about an easy SEC schedule completely ignoring the fact that we just went and beat a top 10 team on the road. I guess that doesn't count since they are B1G and can't possibly have been as challenging as losing to Notre Dame at home who lost to NIU a week later.
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56 minutes ago, ztejas said:
My cousin ran into Shannon Sharpe at Home Depot one time.
Is your cousin named Michelle?
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2 hours ago, kevwun said:
A defense oriented head coach with no clue what he wants to do on offense. I've seen this movie before.
At least Elko should be able to remember Longstreet's name in a deposition.
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1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:
Myron Charles - Commit
Josiah Sharma - Commit
Kevin Wynn - FSU
Joseph Mbatchou - Florida
Walter Mathis - LSU
Chace Sims - Aggie
Caleb Bell - Arkansas
Floyd Guidry - TCU
Devin Coleman - PWO
Seems like the board
I wonder if Devin Coleman gets bumped to a scholarship as a developmental guy since we have the headroom.
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My favorite part about that stadium is the fact that they literally have to beg aggie fans to come via bus or train in from DFW and Houston on local radio stations. It is an easy place to fill for a big game, but non ranked games they are not even close to full. And of course there is UMass..