Head Coach Steve Spurrier met with the media Tuesday afternoon to preview Thursday’s season opener against Southern Mississippi. The Gamecocks and Golden Eagles will kick off at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN.
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GatorZone.com will be in New York on Wednesday to cover Nike's release of a Gator-themed Pro Combat uniform that will be worn for at least one game during the 2010 season.
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Single-game tickets for the Auburn football season opener on Sept. 4 versus Arkansas State are still available. Tickets for the game are $40 and can be purchased online at www.AUBTix.com, by calling 1-800-AUB-1957.
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Head coach Gene Chizik held his first game-week press conference on Tuesday at the Athletics Complex to preview the season opener against Arkansas State. Chizik Press Conference
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Alabama will repeat as national champions but its running back, Mark Ingram, has some serious competition in the race for the Heisman Trophy, according to voters in WholeHogSports.com’s Best on the Beat poll.
On Monday we revealed how 12 SEC beat writers picked the SEC in the first part of the WholeHogSports.com poll, which featured Alabama [...]

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Despite our well-deserved general image as beer-swilling, ass-kicking tough guys, we at Arkansas Expats, Inc are also sensitive types who are in touch with our feelings. So, when our corporate overlords at SB Nation introduced the “how are you feeling about your team” widget we thought it was a great idea.

In the upper left corner of the site (right under the logo), you’ll notice a little widget with a sliding scale that allows you to register your confidence level in the team (100 being fully, perhaps irrationally, confident).

The idea is that you can register your feelings about the Hogs throughout the season (I put mine down as 90, for what it’s worth) and the data will periodically be shared as a way of taking the fan base’s collective temperature. Should be interesting.

So, don’t forget to share your feelings as we go, and may the entire season remain as positive as possible. Feel the love!

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Now here’s a little something I’m gonna do each week before a game, similar to what I did on my now-defunct LSU-miscellanea blog Save Toonces- search out the interesting alumni of our opponent and post ‘em here.

Andy Griffith (Bachelor of Music, 1949)

Occupation: Entertainer, Actor

Famous for: The Andy Griffith show, in which he played the role of Andy Taylor, Sheriff of Mayberry. Also, this beloved comedy monologue on football from 1953.

Related: Don Knotts, aka Barney Fife, did not go to college, but was born and raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, the home of a certain other school we’ll be facing this year.  Ron Howard, who was Opie before he became an Academy Award-winning director (A Beautiful Mind), is a USC film school dropout.

James K. Polk

Occupation: Politician

Famous for: Being the 11th president of the United States, The Mexican-American War.

Related:  UNC had just eighty students when Polk was there.  LSU has no U. S. President to its name (at least until JaMarcus Russell turns 35) but we do have Hubert Humphrey, who served as Vice President under Gerald Ford.

Michael Jordan

Also Known as: Air Jordan, His Airness, The Hanes Man Himself

Occupation: hopelessly awkward actor in commercials and Space Jam, hopelessly awkward minor league baseball player for the Birmingham Barons, also played basketball.

Possessions: The Charlotte Bobcats, an insane amount of endorsements despite being twelve years retired, F-you money.

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Our new Athletic Director stated publicly today that he's a fan of the "Florida model" of scheduling whereby the Gators play 1 tough non-conference game per year in state plus 3 tomato cans (my phrase not his).  With that boring and unambitious glimpse into our season ticket buying future out of the way, I'm sure he'll cherish this Saturday's match-up against Louisiana Lafayette.

The Ragin Cajuns weren't particularly good at anything last year.  They ranked near the bottom of nearly every statistical category including:

Not shockingly their strongest unit was their punting team.

As Dean Legge pointed out earlier in the week, these guys are going to spread us out running 4 and 5 wide receivers.  Which means we're not going to see much of our base 3-4 in favor of nickle packages like the 4-2-5.  With our personnel, I'd personally prefer to see a 3-3-5 look with both the OLBs staying in the game.  But that's neither here nor there.

On paper, you would think that we'd see a bunch of sacks, but the ULL QB will be coached to get rid of the ball extremely quickly.  For us to get sacks, our CBs are going to have to press at the line of scrimmage and throw off the initial timing of the play.  We haven't played quality press coverage in a very, very long time.  This could create a true test of technique more than a test of actual talent.

Overall, I'm hopefully that we show up to the game awake and motivated for a change.  This will be my 21st year as a season ticket holder in Athens, and I can say with great authority that I probably haven't seen 10 great GATA efforts from our players for games starting at 1:00 pm or earlier.  The 1991 Auburn game stands out in my mind as a solid effort at an early hour, but I'm currently struggling to name another quality effort for an early start.

I will be positively THRILLED if we open this game with the violence and tempo of Richt's earlier years.  We have the physical strength, size and speed to maul the ULL squad, and anything less than 35-7 would be a great disappointment to me.

What are you expecting to see on Saturday?

PWD

(Top Questions I'd like to see Answered on Saturday will be in the next post)

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I’ll be on WLXG-1300 in Lexington with Chris Cross, Mike Cameron, Matthew Laurance at 6:05 p.m. tonight, where I’m sure we will discuss President Obama’s upcoming speech tonight, or possibly the Glen Beck rally, or maybe even why that Emmys opening would have been great if only the real Bruce Springsteen had burst onto the stage at the end to finish “Born to Run” — though Jimmy Fallon did do a great job.

Nah, I’m sure we’ll talk Kentucky-Louisville football.