OMG, is it the 12th week of the college football season already? Since it's about 40 degrees outside this morning, it must be mid-November.
After Alabama drilled the Aggies 59-0, I assumed we'd seen the last of TAMU as a favorite in SEC games, but Missouri is a 6.5 point road underdog Saturday (SEC Network at 6:30 PM). College Football News sees this as a 24-20 win for A&M, with superior Aggie offense overcoming superior Mizzou defense.
The SEC showcase game at 2:30 PM on CBS features Mississippi State (9-0) at Alabama (8-1), with the Tide favored by 8.5 points. Both of these powerhouses thumped A&M easily, but the Aggies made Bama look like the most dominating college team in America with a belly-up of epic proportions. I've seen both teams several times, and MSU strikes me as the better of the two, based strictly upon quarterback performance. CFN predicts Bama will edge the Bulldogs 31-27.
Other SEC games are Georgia at Auburn (6:15 PM on ESPN), and South Carolina at Florida (11:00 AM on SEC). The CFN predictions: Georgia, favored by 2.5 points, covers with a 34-31 win over Auburn, and the Gators squeeze past the Gamecocks 27-24. In an SEC West slugfest, LSU will scrape out a 20-17 win over narrow home favorite Arkansas.
Added 6:14 PM Saturday 15 November: The heavyweight bout of the day just ended, and Alabama outlasted MSU with a 25-20 win. Prescott threw three interceptions, and that was probably the difference. Anyone interested in textbook examples of SEC West football would have to love that game.
Added 8:20 PM: Texas A&M leads Missouri 13-6 at the half. Lots of penalty flags and sloppy execution on both sides. As they say, there's some ugly shit going on here. The A&M offense looks like the one that struggled with La-Monroe.
Added 9:58 PM: Mizzou just missed a 49-yard field goal attempt, so A&M gains possession with about six minutes left in the 4th quarter and Mizzou ahead by a touchdown. Watching this shit has been painful. Please, God, no overtime. Please.
Added 10:17 PM: Missouri will win the game 34-27 because A&M couldn't muster any offensive push when they absolutely had to gain short yardage on third or fourth down. The bad news is that there's no such thing as an Aggie home field advantage. The good news is that Missouri is off the schedule and A&M won't play them again anytime soon.
Around the SEC, Texas A&M wasn't the only team to crap in their pants. Georgia laid a 34-7 blowout on Auburn, and Arkansas got a 17-0 shutout against LSU.
After Alabama drilled the Aggies 59-0, I assumed we'd seen the last of TAMU as a favorite in SEC games, but Missouri is a 6.5 point road underdog Saturday (SEC Network at 6:30 PM). College Football News sees this as a 24-20 win for A&M, with superior Aggie offense overcoming superior Mizzou defense.
The SEC showcase game at 2:30 PM on CBS features Mississippi State (9-0) at Alabama (8-1), with the Tide favored by 8.5 points. Both of these powerhouses thumped A&M easily, but the Aggies made Bama look like the most dominating college team in America with a belly-up of epic proportions. I've seen both teams several times, and MSU strikes me as the better of the two, based strictly upon quarterback performance. CFN predicts Bama will edge the Bulldogs 31-27.
Other SEC games are Georgia at Auburn (6:15 PM on ESPN), and South Carolina at Florida (11:00 AM on SEC). The CFN predictions: Georgia, favored by 2.5 points, covers with a 34-31 win over Auburn, and the Gators squeeze past the Gamecocks 27-24. In an SEC West slugfest, LSU will scrape out a 20-17 win over narrow home favorite Arkansas.
Added 6:14 PM Saturday 15 November: The heavyweight bout of the day just ended, and Alabama outlasted MSU with a 25-20 win. Prescott threw three interceptions, and that was probably the difference. Anyone interested in textbook examples of SEC West football would have to love that game.
Added 8:20 PM: Texas A&M leads Missouri 13-6 at the half. Lots of penalty flags and sloppy execution on both sides. As they say, there's some ugly shit going on here. The A&M offense looks like the one that struggled with La-Monroe.
Added 9:58 PM: Mizzou just missed a 49-yard field goal attempt, so A&M gains possession with about six minutes left in the 4th quarter and Mizzou ahead by a touchdown. Watching this shit has been painful. Please, God, no overtime. Please.
Added 10:17 PM: Missouri will win the game 34-27 because A&M couldn't muster any offensive push when they absolutely had to gain short yardage on third or fourth down. The bad news is that there's no such thing as an Aggie home field advantage. The good news is that Missouri is off the schedule and A&M won't play them again anytime soon.
Around the SEC, Texas A&M wasn't the only team to crap in their pants. Georgia laid a 34-7 blowout on Auburn, and Arkansas got a 17-0 shutout against LSU.
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