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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Alex Groberman The LSU Tigers can almost taste the BCS Championship game at this point, but there is still other work to be done. Namely, taking on the No. 3 ranked Arkansas Razorbacks, who will aim to shock the world this Friday and hand the Tigers their first loss of the 2011 college football season. While admitting that there is a whole lot on the line this week, LSU players have taken to expressing a certain confidence about what lays ahead. They respect 10-1 Arkansas, no doubt about it, but they also fully believe that they are the best in [...]

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Evin Demirel Years ago, I bartended at the Legacy Hotel in downtown Little Rock. Most shifts were mellow, sparsely populated affairs, with plenty of time to read and chat with the hotel’s handyman. But that all changed one night, when a group from Louisiana rolled in, turning my dimly lit barroom into a din of joking, singing and emotional outpouring. To my surprise, the occasion for the gathering was a relative’s funeral. As the head of the family rang up the tab with drink after drink, each further loosening the group’s tear ducts in alternating bouts of laughter and grief, [...]

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Alex Groberman It’s been all but officially confirmed that the LSU Tigers will play for the BCS National Championship. The far more intriguing question as it relates to LSU and the SEC West in general is: does this team have the best shot at capturing a division title? Following their dominating 52-3 victory over the Mississippi Rebels, the Tigers have two challenges remaining – and both are fairly daunting. Next week, they’ll square off against the Arkansas Razorbacks – a team currently ranked 3rd in the nation. If they win that one, they get to play SEC East top dogs, [...]

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Tyler B. A good friend of mine recently asked me how the Nick Saban era would end in Tuscaloosa, and for some reason the first thing that came to my mind was a scene out of Forrest Gump. (The whole Alabama football connection makes this analogy even more bizarre than it already is.) Remember when Gump’s galloping back and forth across the country with his loyal followers trotting behind him like he was some kind of mythical God, one they were almost afraid to talk to? Then one random day Gump turned to his legion of followers and said something [...]

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Tyler B. WWJD – What Will James Do?  “I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away to a better SEC location we knew it was a sin to lock them up in the first place. Vanderbilt is that much more drab and empty that he’s gone.” –         ” Red” from Shawshank Redemption -          Vanderbilt A.D… Oh, wait. James Franklin won’t be in Nashville next year because he’ll be in Lexington. He’ll be there because against all odds he’s putting a [...]

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Alex Groberman Can we put an end to this ridiculous charade already? LSU Tigers head coach Les Miles clearly does not want, nor particularly need to play two quarterbacks. The only reason he has been resigned to doing so is because of the hand he was dealt before the year even started – what with Jordan Jefferson’s untimely preseason incident. As we all saw in LSU’s 42-9 rout of the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers on Saturday, Jefferson always was and always will be the quarterback of choice for Miles. In that particular outing, Jefferson made his first official start and played [...]

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Alex Groberman One throwaway play from the first game of the year for both the LSU Tigers and Oregon Ducks may ultimately play a pivotal role in deciding the 2011 BCS National Champion. Back on September 3, the Tigers absolutely punished the Ducks in what was touted as the marquee early-season game of the year. LSU’s defense was brilliant from to start to finish, and the offense was surprisingly solid despite the fact that one of the team’s two quarterbacks in Jordan Jefferson was embroiled in a bigtime bar fight scandal that came to light shortly before the start of [...]

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