Alligator Army SEC Power Poll ballot. Final results at Team Speed Kills on Wednesday.
1. Alabama: An efficient killer ready to crush all who dare stand in the way. And that's just Mark Ingram.
2. Florida: Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong this season. And they are 6-0. No one said it would be easy to repeat.
3. LSU: After a well deserved bye week, they face a reeling Auburn to keep alive a shot at the Western title.
4. South Carolina: Your Gamecocks are 19th nationally in total defense. If their offense wasn't 78th, they would be a top-15 team.
5. Arkansas: The only game Arky was out of was the 35-7 loss to Alabama. If Ryan Mallett was more accurate, we would be talking about a 3-1 SEC record, not 1-3.
6. Georgia: There are three teams in the SEC that have allowed more points than they have scored. Georgia is one of them. Not good times in Athens, even if they got their annual win against Vandy. Jacksonville should be fun for them.
7. Tennessee: Call it SEC East bias, but I think the Vols are better than Auburn or Ole Miss. But I am looking forward to them getting destroyed at Alabama Saturday.
8. Ole Miss: If Jevan Snead held up his end of the bargain, Ole Miss would be a force. The Rebels have allowed 45 points in three SEC games and scored only 20.
9. Auburn: Arkansas exposed them and Kentucky finished the job. Thanks for playing. Here's 4th place in the SEC West.
10. Kentucky: At 3-3, with four consecutive weeks of winnable games (La. Monroe, Miss State, Eastern Kentucky, at Vandy), the Wildcats can be bowl eligible. That means a lot to a still growing program.
11. Mississippi State: In 6 of 7 games this season, the Bulldogs have scored 24 or more points. Dan Mullen should get Coach of The Year votes just for that.
12. Vanderbilt: 26th in scoring defense and 110th in scoring offense is no way to win football games.
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i dont buy alabama as number one
uf is still the best team in the country, and until they lose, they get to hold that spot. i think its a lil different when teams come to play the defending champs. that game is always circled, just higher intensity from each team.
silverstreak3k - October 20, 2009
A good reason to not argue with everyone
putting UF at #2. less pressure and not as many gunning for us.
Hook85 - October 20, 2009
Bama is...
Bama is good, but they don’t look like that dominate Bama team we sawe last year with two or 3 running backs and a QB that was moderately good. Bama Looked really good in the first couple games, but only managing 20 against a dismal Ole Miss defense, and beating SC only because Garcia threw a pic 6(take that away and SC may of won that game). Bama’s defense that is supposed to be this so great stout defense allowed a bad SC offense to move up and down the field at will, take away every time SC stalled at the Bama 20 yrd line and SC may of scored 20-30 in that game. Also last time we saw Bama fall behind by more than 3(SEC champ, and sugar bowl) they abandoned the running game just tossed it out the window and started playing pass happy football, if they fall behind this year and play pass happy football they will be blown out Bama’s passing game is just plain bad, Julio Jones is the only receiver that is a threat to make a catch on that team. If Bama has to run the ball because they can’t pass(the SC game showed that) then they will have trouble with UT scoring points because UT’s defense can stuff the run, and Eric Berry is everywhere, that game may be 7-6. With that you can bet that UF isn’t going to look like they did against Arkansas again this season, Meyer won’t let the offense look like that ans Charlie Strong will have that defense in a hell week of practice, getting Miss State next should help.
bengatorfan - October 20, 2009
A dismal Ole Miss defense?
I’m sorry, but are you high, or have you simply not been paying attention? Through the first half of the season, the Rebels boast the 3rd best scoring defense in conference behind Florida and Alabama. The Rebels are also in the top half of the conference in total defense, red-zone defense, sacks, first downs allowed, pass defense, and pass efficiency defense. Oh, and the Rebs boast the single best defense in conference on third downs.
You have obviously watched very little of Ole Miss or, for that matter, any SEC ball outside of Florida. I don’t want to burst your Gator bubble, but Bama is by far the best team in the conference right now and trying to knock them for their performance against the Rebel defense is pretty silly.
The Ghost of Jay Cutler - October 20, 2009
stats can be misleading
Ole Miss defense looks good on stats, but you can’t judge everything on stats, the Tampa Bay Rays looked unstoppable on paper, but in the game they stunk. Point no matter how good Ole Miss’ defense iswith Sneed giving up the ball more than crompton Bama should’ve scored way more than 20. Bama’s offense sputtered in that game given all the chances they had on offense. What I’m getting at is compare Bama’s team this year to the team they had last year, last years team was way more dominate, last years team would’ve scored 40+ on the same Ole Miss defense given how Sneed gave the ball over all the time. Bama’s defense last year was stout as stout could be, this year the Bama defense does not look nearly as strong, they let a dismal SC offense to move up and down the field at will all game long, take away SC stalling at the 20 everytime and you see a game that SC wins. I’m saying that if Bama’s defense allows that to happen again eventually a team won’t stall at the 20 and will score. Point, don’t base things on stats(stats say UF has the number 1 defense in the SEC, but arkansas torched them). Based on what I’ve seen neither UF or Bama are as dominate as they were last year, but UF is the better of the two, they have proved that despite everything going against you you still win they game coming from behind, Bama hasn’t proved they can come from behind yet, (they panicked when they fell behind last year, with a better team). The Bama team this year does one thing well, run the ball no passing game at all not even a threat of one.
bengatorfan - October 20, 2009
I think a lot of your contentions are a result of you believing what you want to believe
just as with mine. For example, you say “Bama’s offense sputtered” whereas I say “Ole Miss’ defense played well.”
However, despite that one game, you can’t pull the whole “stats are misleading” card out when we’ve already gone through half of the season. If it were week one or two then yeah. But week seven?! Hardly.
The Ghost of Jay Cutler - October 20, 2009
you have to admit
you sure didnt live up to expectations.
Hook85 - October 22, 2009
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