Tyler B. Which SEC coach does this describe? Best recruiter and coach in the SEC. Two-year professional coaching job with mild success. Returned to college with major success at one school > moved to a better school with even bigger success. Awakened a sleeping giant of a program and returned it to elite status almost overnight. Coached multiple programs to a #1 ranking. First head coaching job around 1989. Born in WVU-Pennsylvania area. Played college, but not professional ball. “Defense first” guy who coaches like he’s possessed. Coaches the most tradition-rich school in the SEC (top-three in the country). So, [...]

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Tyler B. As acting President of College Football here’s what NCAA football will look like in 2017. FBS Teams: 80 Conferences: Five conferences with 16 teams; each with two divisions of eight. Since we’re all things SEC, let’s use the SEC and Bama as examples. SEC South: Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Miss. State SEC North: Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Virginia Tech SEC East: Georgia, Florida, Florida State, South Carolina SEC West:  Arkansas, Missouri, Texas A&M, LSU Schedule: Nine conference games. Bama always plays the three teams in the SEC South division to determine a division champion. Six more SEC games against [...]

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Tyler B. With the season now behind us I feel like I need to revisit a few things I wrote this year. Channeling my inner-Clay Travis, here’s my “I told you so” moments from this season. But first, two quick highlights if you don’t want to read the whole thing. 1)      August 23rd was the first time I mentioned this could be the best defense in NCAA history. 2)      In Week 4 – five weeks before they even played – I mentioned the real possibility of LSU and Bama playing again for the BCS title. *Disclaimer: I guess I’m used [...]

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Tyler B. As the SEC continues its utter domination of the college football world it’s pretty clear as to why. Not only does the SEC have the best coaches in the country, just take a look at the talent below that will soon matriculate into the NFL beginning next year. *Prospect ratings are via CBS Sports and I’m only highlighting the players who made the All-SEC teams on both sides of the ball. Keep in mind there are several few players left off the list that will end up ranked as the #1 or #2 players at their respective positions. [...]

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Brett Beaird After the votes were tabulated December 4, the sports world now knows LSU must defeat Alabama a second time January 9, 2012 to win the BCS national championship. When the Tigers nipped the Tide 9-6 in overtime November 5, some observers felt there was a chance for a rematch especially since Alabama only dropped to No. 3 in the BCS poll. Each week after November 5, all Stanford, Oklahoma State and Oregon had to do was to win their remaining games to receive a selection in the NCAA national championship game. But none of these teams could win [...]

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Mark McLeod, ESPN Radio After Oklahoma State demolished Oklahoma 44-10 in the Dust Bowl, the Oklahoma State Sports Information Department wasted little time firing off an e-mail to many of us in the media campaigning for a spot in the BCS National Championship Game over the Alabama Crimson Tide. The Cowboys make the argument that they defeated five ranked teams (Oklahoma, Kansas State, Baylor, Texas, and Missouri) and that they have more wins over bowl-bound teams. They point out that they were on the road, while ‘Bama was at home when they lost. I’ll provide the defense for Alabama. The [...]

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Alex Groberman They say that you really need to be an SEC fan to be able to digest SEC football. Well, if ticket sales are any indicator, even SEC fans can’t stomach the prospect of an LSU Tigers versus Georgia Bulldogs SEC Championship showdown. Saturday’s match-up between undefeated LSU and winners of 10-straight Georgia is widely expected to be a LSU rout, with odds makers listing the Tigers as 13.5 point favorites at the time of this piece. As noted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, prices and interest are taking a serious nosedive leading into this weekend’s outing. “We’ve actually seen [...]

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Alex Groberman  Heading into this week’s SEC showdown between the LSU Tigers and Georgia Bulldogs one thing is for certain: there is no lack of confidence on either side. During a recent interview regarding the looming game, Georgia linebacker Jarvis Jones fired the first shot in what promises to back an interesting back-and-forth when he said that his team’s defense was “just as good, if not better” than LSU’s. Needless to say, given the fact that the Tigers have largely hung their hats on the notion that they are the best defensive team in all the land (even though the [...]

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Tyler B. Many believe there will be a split title (BCS/AP) if the Tide leaves NOLA victorious, but I believe Bama bags both titles with a victory. This is a game to decide a champion, right? In sports there can only be one winner and that’s why the game is played. I know society likes to coddle its youth with the “everyone is a winner” mentality but big boys play in the SEC and not everyone can be a winner. Sorry. A shared national title makes sense if two teams don’t actually play each other, but this is not the [...]

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There are a wide array of questions and topics out there involving SEC football. Here are my thoughts on some of those below. Should there be a SEC rematch in the BCS Championship Game? Absolutely. LSU and Alabama are the two best teams in college football and they deserve to be in (and this is important) a winner-take-all championship game. Make-up all the really lame, flawed excuses for not wanting to see Alabama in the title game (like: if you don’t win your conference you don’t deserve to play for the national title, you can’t lose at home, they already [...]

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