SEC Football Weekly Rundown: Georgia-Alabama Blackout Highlights Week Five

Tim Croley by Columnist Written on September 24, 2008
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Ole Miss vs. Florida

 

Florida

 

Tebow and Co. picked right back up where they left off by winning. See, I told you two weeks off would prove to be too much for the Vols. Now they have the pleasure of hosting Houston Nutt to his first trip to The Swamp as head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels.

 

Everyone had wondered where Percy Harvin had been this season. Now they know. This team made a statement—a BIG statement.

 

Who says that going on the road to play in Neyland, in front of 100,000-plus orange shirts, in about just as many shades of orange, is no easy task? Not this guy! It was as easy as giving away food at the Fulmer residence. You just knew that the platters would be licked clean!

 

You could just see Florida taking full advantage of the turnovers. You could just see the Great Orange Mass on the sidelines about to cry!

 

I almost felt bad for them. After all, who wants a tear-stained, faded orange sweater?

 

The Gators are playing strong ball—perhaps a little too strong for the young Rebel team coming to town.

 

 

 

Ole Miss

 

Houston Nutt has been in these types of games before. Last year as the Arkansas coach, he pulled off a great win over the eventual national champions as sort of a last hurrah before leaving town.

 

This 2-2 team has played well so far. They came up just short in a heartbreaker against Wake Forest. Vandy toyed with them last week. Up and down they have gone, beating up on the smaller team and falling just short of teams who appear to be equal competition.

 

This week Nutt has his first losing record at Oxford, as the Gators prove to be more than just an equal team.

 

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