SEC Picks Week Six: Darkness Falls On Florida In LSU's Death Valley

Week Five proved that even the best of luck must come to an end at some point. After dropping the two biggest games of the weekend, I limped to a 5-2 finish, my worst week to date this season. My overall record is now 37-5.

Week Four Recap:

Florida was afforded a week of rest for Tebow during their bye. Will it be enough to overcome LSU in Death Valley this Saturday night? We shall see.

Alabama cruised to a fairly easy win over Kentucky. Some were thrilled with the performance, others were fearful in an attempt to compare the Tide to Florida’s pummeling of the Wildcats in the previous week. I predicted a 34-10 win for the Crimson Tide, while they won by the final of 38-20.

Auburn is without a doubt the surprise team of the year after starting the season 5-0. Tennessee found themselves on the bitter end of a tough home loss to the Tigers. I predicted a 20-17 win for the Vols, but Auburn avoided a late onslaught and hung on to win by four points, 26-22.

Arkansas did what everyone knew they were capable of doing: putting up big numbers on offense. So far it doesn’t look like any team from Texas can win in Jerry’s new house, as they simply crushed Texas A&M by a score of 47-19. I had the Hogs winning by a much closer score of 35-31.

Georgia Tech did exactly what I expected against Mississippi State. The Bulldogs are improving, but they are not back to big boy competition yet. The final score was 42-31 in favor of the Yellow Jackets, while I had Tech winning 31-23.

South Carolina did their usual thing, picking on the likes of high school competition. But hey, everyone has to play one of these games at least once a season, right? When the final second rolled off the clock, the Gamecocks reigned over SC State by the final of 38-14. I had them winning 42-6.

At no point in the game did I foresee Ole Miss falling to Vanderbilt, but they did look a little lethargic following their upset to Carolina. Ole Miss won 23-7, while I had them winning 28-7.

Georgia had a heartbreaking loss to LSU this past Saturday in the Game of the Week, which has raised questions and controversy everywhere concerning the celebration rule in college football. We’ll never know how things might have been, but that’s all in the game, fair or not.

I picked the ‘Dawgs and Tigers to have an offensive feast, but defense roared its head, keeping the score 20-13 in favor of the LSU Tigers. I predicted UGA to win it 41-35. Either way, it was close to the end!

Week Five Summary: The Ole Miss game went as expected. This was my closest game of the week, picking them to win 28-7, when in fact they won 23-7.  The UGA vs. LSU game was nothing like I expected. It was almost like old fashion SEC football, until the last five minutes, of course. Well, on to...

Week Six Picks:

No. 17 Auburn 5-0 (2-0) at Arkansas 2-2 (0-2)

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