East
Florida
| Georgia
| Kentucky
| South Carolina
| Tennessee
| Vanderbilt
West
Alabama
| Arkansas
| Auburn
| LSU |
Ole Miss
| Miss State
SEC Roundups
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SEC Game of
the Week
Tennessee 51
... Georgia 33
Georgia got up 24-7 in the second
quarter on two Brannan Southerland
touchdown runs and an 86-yard punt
return for a score from Mikey Henderson,
and later got a 99-yard kickoff return
for a touchdown from Thomas Brown, but
it wasn't even close to being enough to
stop the Tennessee onslaught in the
highest scoring game ever between the
two teams. The Vols went on a 44-9 run
over the final 31 minutes with a
27-point fourth quarter with two of
Arian Foster's three one-yard touchdown
runs, a 15-yard Robert Meachem touchdown
catch, and a blocked punt recovered by
Antonio Wardlow for a score. Erik Ainge
finished with two touchdown passes and
ran for a score.
SEC
Player of
the Week
Arkansas RB Darren McFadden ran 28 times
for 145 yards and a touchdown in the
27-10 win over Auburn.
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W |
L |
PF |
PA |
W |
L |
PF |
PA |
Str |
W |
L |
W |
L |
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Florida |
4 |
0 |
98 |
50 |
6 |
0 |
174 |
57 |
Won
6 |
5 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
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Georgia |
2 |
1 |
65 |
60 |
5 |
1 |
161 |
85 |
Lost
1 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
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Tennessee |
1 |
1 |
71 |
54 |
5 |
1 |
211 |
116 |
Won
3 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
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South Carolina |
2 |
2 |
56 |
59 |
4 |
2 |
128 |
85 |
Won
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
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Kentucky |
1 |
2 |
55 |
64 |
3 |
3 |
169 |
166 |
Lost
1 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
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Vanderbilt |
0 |
3 |
39 |
51 |
2 |
4 |
127 |
101 |
Lost
1 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
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W |
L |
PF |
PA |
W |
L |
PF |
PA |
Str |
W |
L |
W |
L |
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Arkansas |
3 |
0 |
72 |
52 |
4 |
1 |
106 |
102 |
Won
4 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
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Auburn |
3 |
1 |
75 |
47 |
5 |
1 |
153 |
68 |
Lost
1 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
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Alabama |
1 |
2 |
49 |
62 |
4 |
2 |
145 |
100 |
Won
1 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
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LSU |
1 |
2 |
61 |
47 |
4 |
2 |
200 |
60 |
Lost
1 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
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Ole
Miss |
1 |
2 |
40 |
55 |
2 |
4 |
78 |
141 |
Won
1 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
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Mississippi St. |
0 |
3 |
17 |
97 |
1 |
5 |
76 |
181 |
Lost
2 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
Conference Roundup
Alabama
… The win over Duke was hardly
confidence inspiring. The defense turned
it up when it had to against a bad
offense, and Ken Darby ran as well as he
had all season long, but it took way too
gone to put the game away. Penalties,
ineffectiveness on third downs, and not
nearly enough big plays until the second
half made it more interesting than it
should've been. On the plus side, D.J.
Hall once again showed why he deserves
to be considered among the SEC's best
receivers with a nice seven-catch day.
Now comes a walk in the park against Ole
Miss. If the Tide doesn't turn the ball
over, it'll be 5-2 going into the
showdown at Tennessee.
Arkansas … Wow, have things
changed in a real hurry in the SEC West
race. The Arkansas lines dominated the
Auburn fronts, Mitch Mustain was steady,
and for the second straight game, Auburn
was outcoached. Houston Nutt and his
staff did a fantastic job with both
sides of the ball, and Darren McFadden
and Felix Jones were Darren McFadden and
Felix Jones. Arkansas gets Tennessee at
home and has to go to South Carolina,
but all of a sudden, things open up in a
big way until the regular season finale
against LSU. This might be known as the
statement, program-changing win for the
young team as Mustain and the offense
continue to grow.
Auburn … It almost seemed like
Auburn panicked against Arkansas. Once
the Hog running game started to work,
the Tigers pressed a little too much on
both sides of the ball and abandoned
Kenny Irons. Give the Arkansas defense
credit for keeping Irons under wraps,
and for controlling the game with the
ground game, but Auburn needed to get
the ball more to its star, and it needed
a better game from its offensive line.
Brandon Cox was under too much pressure
and Irons didn't get enough room. Now
the team needs to gear the emotion back
up with Florida coming to town next
week.
Florida … There wasn't a running
game against LSU and Chris Leak, while
solid, didn't get much going down the
field, but the Gators took advantage of
every LSU mistake, and there were plenty
of them, and Tim Tebow went from cult
hero to full-blown superstar. All the
running the freshman has done has opened
up the passing game and forced safeties
to cheat up. The Gator coaching staff
caught LSU twice for two Tebow touchdown
passes, and now it should work in the
reverse; things will open up for the
ground game with defenses worried about
getting burned for the big play.
Georgia … There are positives out
of getting blasted by Tennessee. Joe
Tereshinski wasn't afraid to throw it
deep, Kregg Lumpkin ran well yet again,
and the return game was unbelievable ...
that's about it. The total breakdown on
defense in the second half exposed the
secondary against the first real passing
game it faced all season long. Once the
floodgates opened, Georgia needed to get
the running game going and control the
ball and the clock a little more.
Fortunately, games against Vanderbilt
and Mississippi State over the next two
weeks should help work the kinks out.
Kentucky … UK might not have
beaten South Carolina, but it hung
around and stayed in the game late even
though the running game wasn't working
and the passing attack was less than
effective. Andre Woodson continues to
play well, but it would be nice if
Rafael Little could finally get healthy
and play like the do-it-all star of last
year. Converting more third down chances
will be key to stay with LSU next week.
LSU … LSU should be happy it only
got blasted 23-10 by Florida. The Tigers
didn't play like a polished team with
mistakes in just about every phase. With
no running game to speak off, it was up
to JaMarcus Russell to press a bit
against the jacked up Gator D, and he
threw three picks, lost a fumble, and
should've been intercepted two other
times. LSU is now 0-2 against good
teams, but it isn't out of the SEC title
hunt thanks to Auburn's loss to
Arkansas. There's no margin for error
the rest of the way if the Tigers have
BCS hopes.
Ole Miss … It took five
turnovers, a game-sealing, last-second
interception, and a 101-yard day from
BenJarvus Green-Ellis to barely get by
Vanderbilt. Brent Schaeffer, once again,
was awful, and the team only cranked out
179 yards of total offense. A win is a
win, and the Rebels desperately needed
one with at Alabama, at Arkansas, and
Auburn ahead, but it masked a ton of big
problems. If the defense isn't forcing
mistake after mistake, Ole Miss can't
win.
Miss State … MSU had no prayer of
slowing down the West Virginia running
game, and it couldn't muster up any
consistent offense to keep up the pace;
that's going to be a problem for the
rest of the year unless someone starts
carrying the running game. Michael Henig
didn't play well when he got his chance
proving that Omarr Conner is still the
best option at quarterback if the team
wants to try to be competitive. For the
future, which is what MSU has to look to
now, the passing game has to take even
more shots deep just to see what it can
do. Fortunately, Jacksonville State is
up next to give the attack to try out
some new wrinkles before dealing with
Georgia.
South Carolina … It has to be a
bit of a concern that South Carolina
needed some razzle dazzle to get by
Kentucky. The running game worked well,
and Syvelle Newton threw well enough to
keep the chains moving, but ten
penalties proved costly and UK was able
to hang around way too late. Even so,
this was a dangerous game that the
Gamecocks were able to get through
before dealing with Tennessee, Arkansas
and Florida. With Middle Tennessee down
the road, a win next week at Vanderbilt
will all but assure a bowl bid.
Tennessee … Even when everything
was going Georgia's way early on and
even when it looked like Tennessee was
going to have problems, the team didn't
panic and then blasted the Bulldogs with
a frightening mix of offensive balance
and big plays from the defense. Even
though Georgia ran well and wasn't
afraid to push the ball deep, Tennessee
always had an answer keeping the Dawg
offense from getting into the end zone
in the second half. Erik Ainge
solidified himself as the SEC's best
player over the first half of the season
and Robert Meachem was once again
brilliant. The Vol backfield, with a
great game from Arian Foster, showed
once again that it has weapons to spare.
Vanderbilt … It would've been
interesting if Chris Nickson could've
played the entire game against Ole Miss.
On fire to start completing 11 of13
passes for 95 yards with a touchdown,
Nickson went out with an ankle injury
and Mackenzi Adams couldn't come up with
the win despite leading the team on a
good last drive to get close. Turnovers,
missed opportunities, and the lack of a
clutch stop early when the mistakes were
happening all contributed to the loss,
and now the team has to get its focus
back with a bowl shot all but gone.
Vandy needed this win, and it gave it
away.
12:00
Arkansas
27 ... at
Auburn 10
CFN Prediction:
Auburn
34-14 Aub -16
2:00 Ole Miss 17
... Vanderbilt 10
CFN Prediction: Vandy 20-17 VU -1.5
2:30
West
Virginia 42 ... at
Mississippi State 14
CFN Prediction:
WVU
38-16 WVU -25
3:30 Florida 23
... LSU 10
CFN Prediction:
LSU
16-13 Florida -1.5
7:00
Alabama 30 ...
Duke 14
CFN Prediction: Alabama 45-13 Bama
-28.5
7:00
South
Carolina 24 ... at
Kentucky 17
CFN Prediction:
UK
24-22 USC -7
7:45
Tennessee
51 ... at
Georgia 33
CFN Prediction: Tennessee 19-15 UT
-2.5