SEC Power Poll: Week 6

by Arkansas Expats on Oct 8, 2008 8:13 PM CDT in Football Comment 2 comments

With a couple of top teams idle and only one big game this past weekend (featuring Vanderbilt!), our Power Poll is fairly uneventful this week. But don't take our word for it...check out the overall results to see what our fellow SEC bloggers think.

1. (1) Alabama (defeated Kentucky, 17-14)
2. (2) LSU (idle)
3. (3) Georgia (idle)
4. (4) Florida (defeated Arkansas, 38-7)

Yawn.

5. (6) Vanderbilt (defeated Auburn, 14-13)
6. (5) Auburn (lost to Vanderbilt, 13-14)

Ancient scholars are currently poring over arcane texts to see if Vandy being undefeated and #1 in the conference at this point in the season equals some sign of the apocalypse. (Given the way the rest of the world is going, we're inclined to say that it is.) Meanwhile, some words of comfort for Auburn fans: we know you're getting tired of struggling to score in the high single digits, but don't worry...you're due for a 40 point offensive explosion against the Hogs this weekend.

7. (9) South Carolina (defeated Mississippi, 31-24)
8. (7) Mississippi (lost to South Carolina, 24-31)

A victory against Florida followed by a loss to the Cocks. Enjoy the Houston Nutt era Rebs fans...it's a wild ride.

9. (10) Kentucky (lost to Alabama, 14-17)
10. (8) Tennessee (defeated Northern Illinois, 13-9)
11. (11) Mississippi State (idle)

Tennesee really is pretty bad this year, huh?

12. (12) Arkansas (lost to Florida, 7-38)

Nice work by the Hogs to solidify their last place standing here. When they were only down 17-7 relatively late in the game it looked like the ranking could be in jeopardy, but they pulled it out with a solid collapse in the 4th quarter.

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Lordy, I guess the SEC rule is if you lose to Vanderbilt, you have to fire a coach. Or, if you’re Spurrier, bench a quarterback. Or if you’re Houston Dale, blame a player.

But the upshot is, Tuberville fired Franklin and is ditching the Spread, and suddenly those 19 points the Hogs are getting (more than Auburn has scored all year, it seems) looks pretty paltry in the face of Auburn running a power I and jamming it down our undersized, over-pursuing throats. Curse you, Dores! You’re screwing us without even playing us!

by J. Hawg 3 on Oct 8, 2008 10:39 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Somewhere, somehow, some place, a team has to have a bad day against the Hogs, right? Right? When I heard Tony Franklin had been fired in the middle of the week, my initial thought was chaos on the plains! This will be that team! They’ll come out there all discombobulated and lay a big egg against us. But then reality set in. Tony Franklin was the big egg. And now they’ve gotten rid of him, so they’ll probably come out looking like the Auburn of the first quarter against Vanderbilt and the Hogs get crushed again. Uggh! Damn it!

by KevinHog on Oct 9, 2008 8:45 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs