You all nailed it last week in the comments.

If you have nothing to do on a slow Saturday, you’ve got a full throw back game to watch now. Enjoy.

So let’s hop into another one, maybe I can be both accurate enough and vague enough to make this week’s WABAC post a stumper.

With four losses on the season already – two of them to unranked teams – here we go limping into this one praying for mercy or a miracle…against a Top 5 team in their house. We went from winning the SEC last year to limping through the year with a freshman quarterback who has shown flashes of brilliance but not enough to answer for a defense that’s come under a lot of scrutiny in the pass defense game, which is 64th in the country at this point.

Our offense is tenth in the conference. Defense is a mess. They are in the Top 5 but at times this season they’ve looked like they could easily be where we are. I think we have a chance in this one, but we’ve got to play a full, four-quarter game and be solid on both sides of the ball, which we haven’t seen all season. There’s questions about our head coach’s ability to motivate the team, and some are grumbling about our inability to sweep our rivals in any season. We won the conference then laid an egg in last year’s bowl, and the coach is starting to feel the heat as Dawgs are eager for another National Championship, not just SEC Championships.

A win here could quiet some of that prospecting for the next championship coach, but a loss could mark the first time in the coach’s tenure of losing to our big three conference rivals…all in the same season. The expectations were so high to start, now we’re begging for a moral victory to salvage what once was.

Will this be an ongoing theme…or where we finally turn the corner again?