Best Price: $49.95Another wild week in the SEC!
The SEC knows exactly how to keep their fans on the edge of their seats. In some of the wildest games of the year, teams from around the SEC put on a show! The South Carolina Gamecocks and Tennessee Volunteers faced off first in a showdown that came down to the fourth quarter. Tennessee finally got their passing game up to par until Alshon Jeffery of the Gamecocks had a 70-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter.
The World’s largest Outdoor Cocktail Party between the Florida Gators and Georgia Bulldogs in Jacksonville, Florida was a shoot out to remember. Trey Burton and John Brantley of the Gators put of 450 yards of total offense to lead the Gators. The game went into overtime before Florida’s punter/place-kicker hit a 37-yard field goal in overtime to give the Gators the victory and keep them alive in the Eastern Division race.
The Vanderbilt Commodores traveled to Arkansas for their homecoming. Vanderbilt came out swinging early and took a 14-6 lead at the end of the first quarter. Ryan Mallet and the hogs took charge and scored 43 unanswered points. Mallet broke his own single game record for passing yards and finished the day with 409 yards and 3 touchdowns. That total was the highest for any player in the SEC this season.
Mississippi State hosted the Kentucky Wildcats which was a defensive battle. It came down to the final seconds as Kentucky was driving down trailing the Bulldogs 24-17, before Hartline was intercepted at the goal line with seconds to spare. The Bulldogs were lead by senior linebacker Chris White who posted a career-high 15 tackles with one for loss and one interception. The Bulldogs are on a six game winning streak, but have a tough road ahead facing Alabama, Arkansas, and Ole Miss.
The last and most exciting game of the week came down between the Auburn Tigers and Ole Miss. Ole Miss came out striking when Jeff Scott raced 83 yards for a touchdown on the second play from scrimmage for the Rebels. He finished with 134 yards on nine carries. Jeremiah Masoli, a transfer and running threat like Newton, completed 20 of 33 passes for 189 yards with a touchdown and an interception for Ole Miss. He ran for 29 yards. Both Masoli and Scott were no match for Cam Newton who became the third Auburn player to have touchdowns passing, rushing and receiving in the same season, joining Carnell Williams (2004) and Kodi Burns (2009), the quarterback-turned receiver who threw the pass to Newton. The 6-foot-6 Newton outfought 5-10 cornerback Jeremy McGee in the role reversal. Newton was 18-of-24 passing, and ran 11 times for 45 yards after running wild in recent weeks.
The Auburn Tigers are now number 2 in the BCS standings and if they win out, are guaranteed a spot in this year’s BCS National Championship game. The only problem is that they play in the SEC which has been a crazy conference this year.
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SEC in Week 7
So here we are in Week 7 of college football.
The SEC is still leading the pack with 3 teams in the top 10 and 6 in the top 25. Even though some of the poll guys don’t take into account that the guys from the SEC play in the SEC so there are going to be some really good teams playing some other really good teams.
So number 12 from last week Arkansas played number 7 Auburn. It was a literal shootout with all kinds of records being broken in scoring. Arkansas gun slinger got hurt in the first half with a concussion. Ryan Mallet was in street cloths during the 2nd half. His backup Tyler Wilson cam in and did a great job. Except for about 20 seconds where he had two turnovers that probably caused the game to get away.
Alabama pretty much dominated the Black Bears of Mississippi. Bouncing back to form after losing to a very good South Carolina last week.
South Carolina on the other hand loses to Kentucky with some great plays at the end by Jocker Phillips Wildcats.
Mississippi States Dan Mullen took his much improved Bulldogs down to the Swamp and handed his old mentor Urban Meyers his first 3rd lost in a row of his career. Mullens said it was not an upset his team expected to win the game. Upset or not the Bulldogs are making people take notice.
Georgia seems to be getting back on track after getting their top player back after a lengthy suspension. The man handled Vanderbilt 43-0.
LSU started slow but easily handled McNeese State 32-10
Things we discovered in the SEC is that Cam Newton is for real. He has shown up as a legitimate Heisman contender. As good as Newton is the Tiger defense may be just as bad. The Tigers have yet to stop anybody who can throw the ball. They were shredded by Arkansas’s 2nd string quarterback. It’s official. Mississippi State is the SEC’s most improved team. The Bulldogs are 5-2 have won 4 straight games. They are winning the old fashion way by hitting people in the mouth. State ran the ball 49 of 58 plays and had 24 straight running plays at one point in the game. Also let it be know that the two games that MSU has lost were to two teams that are as of now undefeated this season. Both ranked in the top 10 in the country.
In Florida it is looking like Tebow light is the way to go. Brantly may be a great athlete but Florida is still doing much better when he is not at QB.
And the last question in the SEC is does anyone really want to win the East. It seems that the 4th or 5th team in the West could be better than number 1 in the East.
But again this is the SEC and anything can happen. Remember in the SEC it is not that far from Top to Bottom. Pretty much any of them can win at any time.
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