Thursday, September 14, 2006

Big games in the SEC

I've neglected this blog for the better part of a week. Mostly I've been hanging out in Wordpress land. It's a great community, but there's something about blogger that keeps me coming back here, even if it isn't regularly.

Anyway, there are big games to pronosticate, and that's what I'm going to do. The biggest game in the country this week is LSU at Auburn. I've pretty much considered it a toss up, at least until late last night. Then it dawned on me what the difference would be. Auburn's big, veteran offensive line will take advantage of LSU's less experienced front, which will allow Auburn to control the game with their ground attack. It should be a good game, but not as close as most people think. Auburn 31, LSU 21.

The other big game is Florida at Tennessee. Conventional wisdom seems to be that Tennesee's opening game blowout of a talented Fornia team was a fluke. Not so. Last week's close game with Air Force was the fluke. Tennessee was suffering from big-headedness after reading the press concerning their dismantiling of Cal. Additionally, they were looking ahead to Florida, which has become the biggest game on their schedule year in and year out. Tennessee will expose, once and for all, the weakness of Urban Meyer's offensive scheme in a conference of great athletes. I'm not that worried about the injuries on the Vols' side either. They are always deep. Tennessee 38, Florida 24.

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