SEC Opening Weekend Recap

First of all, seriously, Razorbacks - a 4th quarter rally to beat Western Illinois? It's going to be a long season.

Hey, Memphis - see what happens when you play against an SEC team with a real coach? For the past 3 years, the Tigers have had this inflated sense of self worth based on their performance against an SEC team. But it was an SEC team coached by a coach who is up 2 touchdowns over their arch-rival and goes for it on 4th and 2. Ole Miss has good talent, and now a good coach...and Memphis is what it is. A team that can't even win its own conference...even when it's Conference USA.

Mississippi State...what's up? Bowl win, momentum, big year, not hardly. The only thing worse than State losing to LaTech is my Hogs nearly losing to Western Illinois.

The rest of the SEC rolled like they're supposed to on opening weekend. Even Bama - welcome back Tide. That was an impressive display on national television last night. That should help get you a boost in the Top 25 polls this week.

The only other of the easy games worth mentioning is Florida over Hawaii. Can we stop with the Hawaii talk now? All we heard was poor little Hawaii isn't allowed to play even though they're putting up PlayStation type numbers. Then Georgia handed it to them in the bowl game last year, then they start this season with a 56-10 blowout loss to Florida. Hawaii is nothing. Congratulations, you went 12-0 last year...oh, right up until you played a real team in Georgia. Then your undefeated season AND your PlayStation stats came to a screeching halt...which continued on Day 1 this year when the same thing happened.

And yeah, I'm typing this all up before UT plays UCLA - but nobody cares about UT anyway. But can get a Howl Yes from the RedWolves (that was their season ticket slogan, btw)? Start the Red Wolves of Arkansas State era off with a Field Goal filled win over Texas A&M. It drives me nuts when a team kicks a bunch of field goals and beats a team that scores touchdowns...but you know, those points count, too. Congratulations RedWolves. It's not every day that you'll beat a Big12 team, so be proud with this one. But I'll say this - Arkansas State should be more proud of beating Texas A&M than LaTech should be of beating Mississippi State.