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A Golden Opportunity

With losses by Auburn, Cal, and Texas, Tennessee could've moved way up in the polls with a win last night.  But instead, we sit and wait to see how far we fall after a dreadful loss to the Hogs.  Arkansas (Darren McFadden for Heisman!), meanwhile, proved they are for real and judging from how bad the Gators have played lately, I think it's safe to say that Arkansas will be SEC champs (They'll beat LSU in Fayettville).  Now, if Arkansas wins out, I believe they should play the winner of Ohio St./Michigan for the national title.  

Elsewhere, USC and ND both won and now you know the love of those two schools will skyrocket after the loses and near losses that we saw this weekend.

I don't know about any of you, but I was listening to College Gameday on ESPNRadio yesterday and heard Mel Kiper (shouldn't he be hyping up Brady Quinn or some DE from the ACC?)say that the Big East is starting to get a taste of what it's like in the SEC.  He was trying to say that teams like Louisville, WVU, and Rutgers are beating each other up and not getting any cupcake games in between their tough ones.  Listen, Mel, don't even begin to compare the two.  They all have cupcake schedules becasuse they only play two tough games a year.  I don't think any team from any conference, Big 10 included, could make it thruough an SEC schedule, plus at least one signature non-conference matchup, unscathed.  It's too tough, too physical, and too demanding on the players, coaches, and everyone involved.  There might not be any undefeateds, but I would rather watch an SEC game between 2 battle tested, two loss teams than a matchup of two unbeatens that gets overhyped because the teams involved have had 8 scrimmages prior to the game.  

Finally, I don't know what Bowl we'll play in, but we must pound whoever we play in order to get a high preseason ranking next year.  The pollsters don't normally have a lot of love for the Vols and the BCS certainly doesn't favor the SEC, so we need to build as big of a case possible for next year, when we SHOULD be primed for a run at the National Title.

There, I'm done ranting, it's time for breakfast.

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