Larry's Losers in the SEC: Week Twelve

Dog Gone it! I follow up my first perfect week with two losers in week eleven. Auburn proved you can't keep a good team down and allowed Georgia to prove they may be better than we all thought and I wrote Larry's Losers before the Tennessee Trio auditioned for America's Dumbest Criminals and if it didn't take the team's mind off business, something sure took the wind out of their sails as they were humiliated by Ole Miss.

That brings the record down to 65-15 for the season for just a 77% winning margin. I'm back to a solid C and lookin' to bring up the ratings with my second week of prodigious pickin' this week, so settle in and learn the results of this weeks picks from the little smart pill machine.

U.T. Chattanooga at Alabama

The confused Mocs of Chattanooga come to Tuscaloosa for a down home beating and a big paycheck for being a bye week and sacrificial bird. I say confused because U.T. Chattanooga used to be the Moccasins, as in water moccasins, then became the shoe variety of Moccasin,  then the mascot became Chief Macanooga, sort of a Cherokee Indian.

However, political correctness took over and they became the Mocs, short for a railroad engineer mockingbird named Scrappy. That's the forth Moc transformation, but what they'll be known for after this game is a group of confused Tennessee hill people mocking reality and portraying themselves as a football team.

The Mocs will leave with they came for, a big paycheck and and a big butt whuppin'. Larry's Loser—U.T. Chattanooga

Mississippi State at Arkansas

Can the Bulldogs finish lickin' their wounds before a group of troublesome tusked hogs jump on them? That will be the question to be answered this week as Bobby Petrino seeks to improve his bowl situation with a win over the down and out dogs.

Mullen's mutts have had a bite as big as their bark this season, but has always come up a few bites too little until being totally whupped on by the Crimson Tide last week and Dan hopes to regroup the pound puppies and get back a little respect.

However a little respect is all the hogs will show them as they swat them good with rolled up papers and send 'em scurryin' back to Starkville. Larry's Loser—Miss. State

Florida International at Florida

Mario Cristobal brings the Florida football stepchildren to the swamp for the second big paycheck and butt whuppin' of the year. They've already been to Tuscaloosa and should know by now just to duck, cover and protect the face when playing a top flight team.

After several lackluster showings, Urban Meyer wants to make a strong statement that the Gators are for real, so he would hang 60 points on his mamma's knitting group to do it. Unless there's a game warden there to remind Urban that Florida panthers are a protected species, this could be a massacre.

In a  game will show their ain't no brotherly love among Florida football programs and Larry's Loser will be Florida International.

Kentucky at Georgia

Rich Brooks became bowl eligible last week and hopes to step up from the visit to Shreveport with yet another win. This is the fourth year in a row that the Kentucky Kitties have been bowl bound, and the first time that's happened to these boys. Rich Brooks has done a heckofa job there and me and Baccardi both tip our hats to Rich for a job well done.

Georgia likewise became bowl eligible last week, and this could be the fight to escape Shreveport as each team has six wins and Georgia don't have much chance beatin' their brothers over at Georgia Tech next weekend.

If I knew which Georgia team would show it up, it would be easier to pick, but despite my little buddy urging me to pick the dogs, the cat's have won the most fights this season, so it looks like Larry's Loser will be Georgia.

LSU at Ole Miss

Les Travel a few miles with his band of Bengals to take on a Rebel that totally kicked his hiney last year. The Tigers have revenge on their minds and really want a little payback for last years humiliation. But after last weeks potential embarrassment at the hands of Louisiana Tech, people are finally seeing that this is a very weak two loss team.

Now that Houston Nutt has fallen completely on his face after such lofty preseason hype, it's time for him to continue to brush off the dust and build the Rebels up for possibly another Cotton Bowl bid.

This is a game of two over-hyped coaches but one that will finally show that sometimes Les is not more after all. Larry's Loser—LSU

Vanderbilt at Tennessee

With only two games left in the season you can officially stick a fork in the poor little Commodores from Vandy, they're done. Bobby Johnson's one good old coach, but he ain't got the talent he had last year and it shows.

Lane Kiffin on the other hand has increased the talent pool in Knoxville. Now if he can just keep them out of jail he might improve his lot in the bowl picture as well. This win will get the Vols bowl eligible and fighting with Kentucky and Georgia for the Shreveport Slot.

Even though Tennessee lost badly last week, this is Vanderbilt in their usual glory. Last week when they played, Dexter McCluster did everything to Tennessee except father a child with Lane Kiffin's wife but Vanderbilt has a way of making those bad memories go away quickly. Larry's Loser—Vanderbilt

OK Baccardi, let's get those steaks on the grill, my stomach's growling like a Georgia Bulldog seeing an Auburn Tiger. Until next week, God bless and may the best team win, all the players be safe and my prognosticatin' skills get better.

Darn dog, where's my slippers? You realize there's a lot of disgruntled bulldogs that would take this job in a heartbeat don't you?