When the Big Ten announced it was going to conference-only play three weeks ago, we looked at a balanced version of a 10-game SEC schedule if the league elected to move in the same direction. Like the ACC’s version, something like that would involve some willingness to get creative from […]
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Post-Pandemic Fantasy Booking: A 32-Team College Football Super Division
The question we asked in our last post was, if the landscape of college’s football’s future changes due to the pandemic, how many new setups would be better than the SEC going its own way and just playing a 13-game round robin every year? That scenario assumes full-on isolationism emerges […]
Will a better SEC emerge from all this?
If the only certainty right now is uncertainty, college football echoes it best by the absence of any central leadership. The NCAA offers little top-down guidance when it comes to football, and we’re seeing it play out in real time. The simplest solution to a lack of central leadership in […]
SEC Scheduling: What’s The Floor?
Back in the good old days – not just pre-pandemic, but when we still got a college football video game – this was the week the season really started feeling close. The annual mid-July release from EA Sports made college football’s approach a little more tangible. So did media days, […]
SEC Football 10 Game Schedule: A Balanced Option
With the Big Ten announcing they’re only playing conference games this fall, there’s a sense we might see all the Power Five conferences move in that direction quickly. That’s eight games for SEC teams instead of 13, so there’s an obvious sense the league might try to add one or […]
Stories of the Decade: Signature Wins in Overdrawn Seasons
In the moment, our favorite stories of the last decade all happened in the first five weeks of the 2016 season. There’s else nothing in the last ten years that even remotely compares to the spectacle of Bristol, the streak against Florida, and the final snap in Athens. If you […]
2020 Unit Rankings – Special Teams
Here’s our list of the best special teams units in the SEC headed into the 2020 season.
Running Back Distribution in Jim Chaney’s Offense
If you’re looking for a scenario where Tennessee upsets Oklahoma, the most straightforward one goes something like this: the Vols use their star-studded offensive line to go right at Oklahoma’s inexperienced defensive line, and Eric Gray/Ty Chandler/player to be named later do the heavy lifting for Tennessee’s offense. The Sooners […]
2020 Unit Rankings – Defensive Backs
Here’s our list of the best defensive back units in the SEC headed into the 2020 season.
2020 Unit Rankings – Linebackers
Here’s our list of the best linebacker units in the SEC headed into the 2020 season.