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Oct. 24—Two weeks ago, I asked where the big, bad SEC was. I still am curious how people thought this conference would swallow up Oklahoma and Texas.
OU has two ugly losses, one to Texas and the other to South Carolina in a game where the Sooners’ offense played its worst, and was missing all of its receivers. Literally, every receiver that was on the starting lineup to start the year has been out.
With that said, Georgia reminded us that it’s still a big-time team that can win big games. After the 30-15 win over UT last week, I believe that loss to Alabama was a fluke in late September.
Alabama could stick around for the SEC race but with a tough road schedule ahead, I think the Crimson Tide are out.
Vanderbilt isn’t even good. I still won’t buy into it being an improved team. We’ll look up in December and this team will have at least five losses, probably six.
Missouri has a couple tough ones right around the corner and I think it will drop at least one if not both to Alabama and OU. The Tigers won’t be able to stick around with just one loss in conference play.
Same with the Volunteers of Tennessee. They drop at least one more game this year.
Georgia and Texas should win out and finish with just one loss.
Now, the undefeated teams in SEC play of Texas A&M and LSU have the advantage right now. Ironically, they play each other on Saturday, too. The winner is in the hunt. The loser will end up falling out of the race.
The Aggies have another tough one at South Carolina and then the last game of the year is home against Texas. LSU gets two tough home games with Alabama next week and OU to end the year.
If the Sooners are healthy, they’ll be much different on Nov. 30 than they were last week against South Carolina.
My updated guess is for Texas, Georgia and LSU to all finish with one loss.
Here’s the Week 9 slate:
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Author : The Joplin Globe, Mo.
Publish date : 2024-10-24 22:31:00
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