2023 preseason expectations SEC
There’s one conference no one is talking about right now. They must be laying in the weeds, waiting to attack their prey when least suspected. Everything’s crazy quiet in SEC land these days.
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Georgia, of course, is the clear frontrunner for the East, with Tennessee the only legitimate contender. (Is Tennessee even a legitimate contender?) No others are among the top 25. It’s odd to see Kentucky & USC (NTUSC) ahead of Florida.
The West shows an expected battle of Bama vs. LSU & fammlee. They play each other Nov 4. Alabama plays a crossover game with Tennessee but not Georgia. LSU crossovers with neither. The rest of the West looks to be a battle of anybody-can-beat-anybody.
Boasting 3 of the top 6 is B1G-like. That the expected bottom teams in the West rank no worse than #33 is un-B1G-like. The SEC has only 1 team ranked past #46; the B1G has 6.
SEC has 12 teams among the top 37, 6 of them are logjammed in the 10 spots from 24 to 33.
We need a few of the SEC’s second-tier teams (ranked in the ~20s-30s) to knock off a top team (GA, ALA, LSU), otherwise SEC scheduling permits an easy path to getting two teams in the final 4-team CFP. The SEC’s top 3 teams are guaranteed only two combined losses from directly playing one another; the B1G’s top 3 are guaranteed three combined losses from head-to-head matchups.
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August 7th, 2023 at 10:06 AM ^
Georgia walks through this schedule without breaking a sweat. They might have to pass the ball 15 times against Tennessee. They can plug in any rb on the roster to take snaps and hand off against the rest of the schedule. As for Kirby Smart saying come play it, yeah buddy, most all of cf wants to come play that schedule.
West Lsu beats bama and somehow drops fsu and then gets rolled in the sec title game. Bama takes a loss to lsu and wants to back door into the cfp and likely does.