Thursday, November 02, 2006
NEW TERRITORY
After back to back loosing seasons as well as no bowl appearances, the Hogs find themselves in new territory. Not unchartered territory, mind you; its more like coming back home from a loooong journey. Its almost a joke to be bowl eligible anymore with just 6 wins, especially when many teams play a 12 game schedule. It waters down the whole bowl system. The bowl situation is a whole different blog so I digress. Anyway, the Hogs are bowl eligible, but they have bigger fish to fry this year. Currently they are on a 7 game win streak after getting humbled in game 1 by USC. They are the only undefeated SEC team, the toughest conference in America, and yet the BCS can't seem to find a place for them in the top 10. How Auburn remains at #6 after the shellacking we gave them at their place and their squeaky wins against LSU and Florida is still a mystery to me. Again I digress. The Hogs square off against the "Ole Ball Coach" and his South Carolina Gamecocks Saturday in Columbia. It will be hostile territory but familiar; remember the road win at Auburn in front of 80K people. Spurrier will be unpredictible, especially in this game, because he has to. S.C. does not match up well with the Hogs on either side of the ball, so expect the unexpected. It will be fun to witness our playcaller, Gus Malzhan match wits with the heisman trophy winner of the early 60's. The Hogs appear mostly one dimensional with their potent running game, but the passing game is simply hibernating, waiting for an opportunity to unveil itself. It could come out this week or next season, depending on the whether opponents find a way to stop the run. If D-Mac and Felix continue to roll up impressive ground game numbers, and the Hogs win, I don't care if they ever toss the ball past the line of scrimmage. But, the insurance premium of the passing game has been paid and is there just in case of an emergency in the form of Monk, Crawford, Williams, and of course the slinger, M16. Everyone is healthy and that's a trememdous advantage being on the road. Butu is back in the linebacker corp and the captain will lead us to victory. The Gamecocks will remain winless in conference games at home this year and M16 will remain undefeated as the quarterback of the Hogs. Final score...27-17, Hogs. One step closer to a BCS bowl, which indeed is unfamiliar territory. ¶ 7:59 PM
After back to back loosing seasons as well as no bowl appearances, the Hogs find themselves in new territory. Not unchartered territory, mind you; its more like coming back home from a loooong journey. Its almost a joke to be bowl eligible anymore with just 6 wins, especially when many teams play a 12 game schedule. It waters down the whole bowl system. The bowl situation is a whole different blog so I digress. Anyway, the Hogs are bowl eligible, but they have bigger fish to fry this year. Currently they are on a 7 game win streak after getting humbled in game 1 by USC. They are the only undefeated SEC team, the toughest conference in America, and yet the BCS can't seem to find a place for them in the top 10. How Auburn remains at #6 after the shellacking we gave them at their place and their squeaky wins against LSU and Florida is still a mystery to me. Again I digress. The Hogs square off against the "Ole Ball Coach" and his South Carolina Gamecocks Saturday in Columbia. It will be hostile territory but familiar; remember the road win at Auburn in front of 80K people. Spurrier will be unpredictible, especially in this game, because he has to. S.C. does not match up well with the Hogs on either side of the ball, so expect the unexpected. It will be fun to witness our playcaller, Gus Malzhan match wits with the heisman trophy winner of the early 60's. The Hogs appear mostly one dimensional with their potent running game, but the passing game is simply hibernating, waiting for an opportunity to unveil itself. It could come out this week or next season, depending on the whether opponents find a way to stop the run. If D-Mac and Felix continue to roll up impressive ground game numbers, and the Hogs win, I don't care if they ever toss the ball past the line of scrimmage. But, the insurance premium of the passing game has been paid and is there just in case of an emergency in the form of Monk, Crawford, Williams, and of course the slinger, M16. Everyone is healthy and that's a trememdous advantage being on the road. Butu is back in the linebacker corp and the captain will lead us to victory. The Gamecocks will remain winless in conference games at home this year and M16 will remain undefeated as the quarterback of the Hogs. Final score...27-17, Hogs. One step closer to a BCS bowl, which indeed is unfamiliar territory. ¶ 7:59 PM
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Now... can we start a discussion about the BCS v. a playoff? Other than money (what's more important?) why can't we get rid of the BCS?
Territory... Terri-tory... get it? If you mention that win over Auburn in our terri-tory one more time, I'll put a hex on those pigs that won't soon be forgotten!
Territory... Terri-tory... get it? If you mention that win over Auburn in our terri-tory one more time, I'll put a hex on those pigs that won't soon be forgotten!
# posted by 
: 4:21 AM
: 4:21 AM
I remember how much fun it is to pull for a winning team...Hope your Hogs continue to do well and IMHO they should be ranked higher than Tubbervilles Tigers....
Whopsi Pig!
Whopsi Pig!
Keep taking care of business, and the BCS will take care of it itself. Auburn gets more respect because of the two seasons it is just coming off of, and their strength of schedule. The BCS is counting the Hogs win over Auburn as an upset, and only the future will tell if it was or if it wasn't. As your schedule has allowed you all year, you are catching the Gamecocks at the most optimum week of the season.....between the Vols and Gators. Hope you can take advantage of it. The Vols, Bulldogs, and Tigers are lurking.
Get ready to face 8 and 9 men in the box and expecting a freshman to win games for you. He will grow up quick or get killed trying.
ROLL TIDE ROLL!
DU
Get ready to face 8 and 9 men in the box and expecting a freshman to win games for you. He will grow up quick or get killed trying.
ROLL TIDE ROLL!
DU
the bcs problem is the result of at least a couple of things. If you're not ranked relatively high early, you have a hard time getting in a position to be there. hogs were unranked, and they're trying to climb, but it's slow. also, regarding Auburn, they're still ranked high because they started high, and they have beaten 2 teams that also started high (florida and lsu) despite how unimpressive they were in those games. this is why the polls are often worthless - if you don't lose, you often don't drop. however, the remainder of Auburn's schedule won't help them in the BCS poll, and will probably actually hurt them (and I still believe Alabama will beat them anyway). if Arkansas were to win out, they'd improve quite a bit, I believe, especially with a win over Tennessee. their strength of schedule should improve with the remainder of games.
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