Another wild week of SEC football kicks off Thursday night as Auburn travels up to Morgantown to take on the Mountaineers of West Virginia.
Alabama goes to Neyland to take on Tennessee in the “Third Saturday in October” rivalry game, and Georgia makes its way down to Baton Rouge for a tussle with the defending champion LSU Tigers.
Wow, what another great week this is going to be. But before, I get to all of that, let’s recap last week’s action.
Week Eight Recap
My record for picking the SEC games this season was 26-5 going into last week.
Wins from Bama, UGA, Kentucky, and Tennessee gave me four wins for the week, while a Carolina loss brought my weekly record to 4-1 and 30-6 for the season.
Auburn
Taking the week off was a good break for the Auburn Tigers following back-to-back losses. However, as supposed by many, the time off gave way for a couple of distractions.
In Tommy Tuberville’s weekly press conference, he denounced rumors that he had indeed suffered a stroke the previous week. What?!
Who even thought he had a stroke? I had not heard anything of this until the press conference, nor had most of the college football world.
Why would he even have to address something like this?
Tuberville went on to declare that he planned on staying with the Auburn program for at least 10 more seasons. Good! I am sure that relieves the pressure from the Auburn nation on questions surrounding the program at this point.
One more side note worth mentioning during the off week is the fact that one of Auburn’s best athletes, junior LB Trey Blackmon, will unfortunately miss the remainder of the season after sustaining a cracked bone in his right wrist.
Florida
The Gators perhaps had what seemed to be the longest bye week ever following the crushing victory over LSU. Two weeks to prepare, from this dangerous Gator team that has already tasted the agony of defeat this season, doesn’t look good for any team. Watch out UK!
Mississippi State vs. Tennessee
Granted, it was the Mississippi State Bulldogs whom the Volunteers defeated last Saturday to give them their first SEC win of the season, but the Vols seemed pretty impressive as their backs were pushed up against the wall.
State seemed unimpressive as usual, reverting to its usual ways.
My game prediction was UT winning 13-12, when in fact they won 34-3.
Arkansas vs. Kentucky
Kentucky had to fight for this one. After opening the season a perfect 4-0, the ‘Cats lost two straight, and for most of the game it appeared they might drop their third straight.
However, they determined Saturday not to make it three in a row as they took the lead with just over two minutes left to play.
Arkansas deserves some recognition. They beat Auburn in the previous week and were one point away from erasing some early season miseries.
My game prediction was Kentucky 30 and Arkansas 17, when the final was actually 21-20 in favor of UK.
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