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SEC Power Poll (Week Two): Alabama and South Carolina Make Statements on Saturday
While you’ve been subjecting the preliminary draft of my BlogPoll ballot to strict scrutiny, I’ve been cobbling together my ballot in the SEC Power Poll. There have been some changes from my week one rankings, and here is where the twelve Southeastern Conference teams now stand: 1. Alabama...
Tennessee vs. Auburn: Two Sides of the Same Coin
They are two traditional powerhouses in the SEC, old rivals turned mere acquaintances in the last two decades. But in the last two years, there have been no two teams who mirrored each other as well as the Vols and Tigers, through good times and bad. As they prepare to meet in what has become the...
Sprints Congratulates Chris Todd, But What About Kodi Burns? // 08.14.09
Collateral damage? Perhaps this is thinking about it too much, but it seems shallow to overlook the connections between two potentially related stories: The naming of a new starting quarterback at Auburn and Tony Franklin once again holding forth about the recent unpleasantness at Auburn. First,...
Sprints Wasn't Filmed Meeting with a Recruit // 06.08.09
Boy Wonder strikes again. At some point, this just gets ridiculous. For those who were unaware, ESPN did a segment on the Sunday morning Outside the Lines about Tennessee and Boy Wonder's start there. During the segment first televised Sunday, Kiffin is shown meeting and talking with a recruit....
SEC 2009 // Tracking the Tigers This Season
We would like to think that our previews here at Team Speed Kills are fairly well-informed and perfect for an SEC fan looking to get enough to give them a good portrait of the team without overloading them with information that only appeals to a team's own die-hard fans. But we freely admit we...
Under New Management: The Offensively Offensive Teams of 2008
When you look at the three programs that made a change at the top in the wake of the 2008 season, one thing leaps out: Despite the SEC's reputation as a defensive league, the quickest way to get fired last year was to have a bad offense. In two teams' cases, offenses that met in one of the worst...
The End of Tuberville -- West Virginia 34, Auburn 17
It's time to stop dancing around it, time to stop saying it delicately, time to quit listening to the non-denial denials emanating from the Plains. Tommy Tuberville will be fired as Auburn head coach by the end of the season, if not sooner. Don't worry, Tommy; you'll soon have plenty of time to...
So Much for Western Supremacy -- Florida 51, LSU 21 and the Rest of Week 7
Was it really just a couple of weeks ago that we were wondering whether the East could reclaim the mantle of "best division" from the West? Because that suddenly doesn't seem like much of an argument anymore. The East could always point to its depth -- South Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee have...
MIDSEASON REPORT: Thoughts on Auburn
We've already covered the main story with Auburn -- that being its dreadful offense -- here, here and here, so the midseason report won't be very extensive. But as Auburn takes the field in a game they could lose, it's worth looking at the rest of the Tigers' schedule and what it could mean for...
So Long, Tony Franklin
Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville said speculation about dissension on his staff is just "Internet talk" and that the offensive coaches are committed to working with coordinator Tony Franklin to turn the season around... Tuberville said Sunday that changes to the offensive staff were "not even...
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