An early look at the sec this week

UGA12

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Being an sec fan I feel better about capping these games than say the pac 10. Most of MY plays come from the sec, I take a lot of advise on those outside the south east. Having said that lets look at a few of the games.

Aub -12.5 Lean Miss. st.

Probably leave this alone as one game does not make miss. st.. However a lot will be decided for me if Aub. goes with the freshman at qb instead of deadbeat campbell. As a Georgis fan I was excited when they resigned tommy tubesteak and he said campbell was his starter. Looks like they may be wising up on one of the two. Need some input from some aub. fans.

UGA -8 Playing S.C. + points (think it goes higher
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S.C. always plays georgia tough and the absense of odell thurman will show, much like it did sat against Ga. Southern. Even though southern probably runs the option better than anyone in the nation, they showed what you have to do to beat georgia. Pound the ball down the field and keep green and company off the field. Will also look at playing the under if the right # comes out.

Fla -37.5 Lean to Fla.

Never like giving up that many but could never put my money on Eastern Mich. Fla not getting much respect and they will come out to prove a point.

Lsu -41 No play

Saben was not happy to say the least after the sloppy game against org. st. and will try to pound ark. st. My question is should anybody with a quaterback like lsu's be giving up 41.

Ark +11 lean to ark

Will probably stay clear of this one as well. Need some input from you ark fans.


Bama -11 Play on Bama (2 units)

Bama is better this year and will be one of my suprise teams. They are getting better while ole miss. is trying to adjust to a new qb. Think this # goes higher before sat. so playing now.


Need some feedback for fellow sec players. As of now I have:


Bama -11 (2 units)

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Well I don't ever bet on my Tigers because that would likely cause a heart attack. Auburn didn't show a whole lot of the offense against ULM this past Saturday, I'd say maybe ran 14 different plays out of 5 formations. New OC Borges has said he plans to open it up more against MSU but says against ULM it wasn't needed. Also Auburn played 73 players on Saturday on both sides of the ball. Our 3rd team D didn't let ULM score.

The QB situation is likely not to change, unless injury comes into play. Borges said that Cox will not "come into the game in a planned series" this week. I agree that Campbell is a lackluster QB and most Auburn fans will be glad when he is gone but for now he's the man.

Auburn's biggest problem is the O-line. ULM's D-line slanted to the ball and gave us all kinds of problems. I say this because Carnell Williams ran the ball 20+ times an only had 103 yards. If the O-line doesn't get better run blocking then a more athletic Defense will ruin us.

Positives for Auburn is that our receivers looked great. Last year I can't even tell you how many times we dropped catchable passes. Watch out for Courntey Taylor this year, he's a Sophmore with great hands and a nack for breaking the first tackle. Another positive is that we made our only attempted FG from 43 yards, Thank the Lord.
 

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Bama -10'
Love the Bama play. I jumped on it out of the gate. Bama looked good on Saturday while playing very conservatively, not showing much from the Play book. Jr.QB Brodie Croyle look like he is ready to take on leadereship responsiblities with this young squad. I have bama also as a surprise team this year. After three years of being bowl ineligable, returning stabilaty in the coaching staff, and a great group of young talent, they have alot to look forward to and build on. Ole Miss. on the other hand is going in the opposite direction. With loss of Eli and losing the season opener, to a good Memphis team, I don't feel they will be a big factor in the SEC this year. But as always it is the SEC and any team can win on any given Saturday. Hopefully just not this Saturday. Bama covers and wins by 20!

Aub -12'
The tigers should be able to establish a good running game in this game. Agreeing w/Au999 the O-line will have to do a better job opening up holes for the work horses, which I think they will. campbell on the other hand has the experience, but is easily rattled. But, I don't see the D-Line of State being able to gett the pressure on him they will need in order to pull this gam out. although croomes will turn the prgram around within a few years, he just want do it this year. Au wears out State with the running game in the 2nd half and pulls away with a solid win by 17.
 

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I also agree on the bama pick, especially since Ole Miss is something like 1-20 in Tuscalousa, and the offense looked terrible saturday.
 

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Fsu +2 (2 units)
Boise st -8 (1 unit)
Miss st. +12.5 (1 unit)
Ball st. +30 (1 unit)
S.C. +9 (2 units)


Liked fsu before this week, think they play even harder for their coach now.

Org. st. just about beats the defending natl. champs and now catching 8 from boise, I think most will be on org. st.

Not sold on aub, if miss st. can slow the run they have a good chance.

Trends play on ball st.

S.C. could win this game if they can keep UGA offense off the field by running the ball.

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Stick with your Dawgs this week. USC just beat a worse-than-advertised Vandy squad, just like they beat a ranked -- but worse-than-expected UVA team last year (without QB Schaub) before rolling into Athens. Almost exactly the same score. They got overconfident last year, and I see the same thing happening this year. I always pull for the home team to lose in this series, but not this year.

Also, my gut told me to play the Tide, but after further review I think the Rebels are the way to go. This is a good spot for a bounceback, and Bama opening with a blowout of USU is a lot less impressive than that 40-17 win over USF to start last season.
 

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Points well taken mw, but I feel the two defenses of bama and uga will be the keys to these games. I feel the tides defense which will be improved this year will give a club trying to adjust to a new quaterback fits. On the flip side of that the backup to odell thurman for uga was hurt during the southern game and may not play sat. If carolina (holtz) has any sense then they try to pound it out run the clock (like southern) and have a chance at the end. I will agree that if carolina can not eat up some clock they will not be able to contain the georgia O. We will see I just do not feel good about this game as a Dawg.

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Auburn only used 25-35% of their playbook last weekend. I think they will try to be conservative to begin with and show just enough to win. They don't want to give the LSU coaching staff to much to look at for next weekend.

With that being said, I believe they will run all over State and rack up 30+ points. The question is whether or not State can keep up. Campbell will not come out unless he is injured or struggles mightily.

I hate to play teasers, but if I can get AU -2-, Bama at a pick, and UGA at +1- I may take the bait. Good luck to you this weekend.


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2nd half

UGA -6 (4 units) -120

SC has played well thus far taking advantage of mistakes. Georgia has moved the ball the first 1/2 and mad a ton of mistakes, I do not see SC keeping them out of the endzone the 2nd half, to many weapons. We'll see


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