Or maybe a lot.
Lol.
Humility is always a week away.
Someone needs to tell Sumrall to add that to his Bloody Tuesdays practices.
I Won’t Back Down…Well Maybe I’ll Back Down a Little
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Imitation is the Highest Form of FTMFs
Shot:
Chaser:
Wonder where Sumrall got that from?
Well, before we all go talking smack at Florida, seems it was a term coined long ago at Florida by none other than the Corch himself:
So now the Gators are claiming proprietary rights over the term and starting to talk trash in earnest, all the while forgetting that Bloody Tuesdays on the Florida campus haven’t happened in nearly two decades, let alone many bloody Saturdays, either.
Also, I don’t think the term Bloody Tuesdays is explicitly novel to Meyer, either. From doing a little digging (mainly because many Twits of Twix were arguing that Erk coined the phrase, which he didn’t, but AI will tell you anything) sounds like most programs have their first full contact practices on Tuesdays.
Sundays are generally film study and walkthroughs, Mondays are an NCAA mandated no practice day (or vice versa but apparently there is a required day of no practice), so Tuesday is the first “get back at it” day and sets the tone for the week. Sounds pretty important, but not just to Kirby and Sumrall.
Still, suffice it to say the rivalry has warmed again, in case it ever felt like it was cooling to anyone out there.
The weekend that was at MBG – week 4 edition
The teams (except 1) at the top of the rankings flexed their collective muscles while others came crashing back down to reality. We saw the emergence of a future opponent we didn’t believe would be a challenge before the season. We saw another rival’s season officially go up in glorious flames.
Let’s start today on the banks of the Tennessee River where this week’s meteor game occurred.
Texas wins a game on the road where they don’t recover an onside kick, have a -2 turnover margin, and lose over 110 yards hidden yards in penalties including one of the most idiotic, tasteless celebration penalties you’ll ever see. The Longhorns generate 10 sacks and hold Tennessee to under 20 points.
Can we just stop the constant talk of how tough a place to play Kneeland Stadium is? The Tennessee faithful seem to be getting close to the end of their ropes with Heupel.
Let’s go up to the Big House to check in on the temperature of the Maize & Blue.
Talking about the Big 10 officiating screwing them is priceless. If they can’t beat Iowa at home, I don’t think Indiana, Oregon, UCLA(!) and Ohio State are too worried about Michigan especially on offense. You give up a kickoff return for a touchdown and take a likely sure 3 off the scoreboard by going for it on 4th and short. Regardless of what their record says, Michigan is 2-2.
Our next stop is the Kentucky Bourbon Trail to see how Louisville’s season seems to be imploding.
Yes, Cardinals, you aren’t a serious program. Karma is a bitch after your coach implies Georgia was scared to come play you. Wake Forest has become one of those programs that shouldn’t be competitive in this new world order of college football, yet they were competitive with Miami and has 2 Power 4 road wins.
Let’s swing into Hogtown to check on the Rebel Black Bear Land Sharks as they come crashing back to reality.
Florida runs (literally and figuratively) Ole Miss out of North Florida and drops half a hundred on them while doing it. 302 yards rushing, 60% 3rd down conversion and 2 players over 100 yards rushing each show us that Ole Miss is vulnerable on defense. Is Florida likely to be a tougher out on Halloween? Yes, but I also think we know the Faulkner offense now.
I give Pete Golding 2 years before he’s run out of Oxford.
Let’s drop into the Classic City in the aftermath of the Dawgs’ dismantling of the program that is destined to become the Nebraska of the SEC.
Stephen A. Smith was right this week when he told a former Sooner appearing with him … “You’re going to get your ass kicked.” That’s what happened on Saturday afternoon in Athens. The Dawgs play a C game on offense and beat Oklahoma by 28. If you had Ryan Puglisi taking snaps in this game on your preseason Bingo card, you may need to get to your closest casino.
John Mateer looked awful. Their offensive line was downright offensive especially in the run game where most of their 65 yards rushing came after the starting defense was on the sideline.
Chris Cole was everywhere. Talyn Taylor is becoming WR1 before our eyes. Special teams were spot on. This team continues to get better.
Jared Curtis is probably having nightmares already thinking about what awaits him Saturday afternoon.
Let’s head out west to check in on the Boy Wonder after his team shows their asses against Oregon.
Arrogant Nation gets smacked down by Oregon, and Dan Lanning lets west coast recruits know what the difference in the 2 programs is. America’s worst ChatGPT poet comes into the game after Dante Moore’s scary injury to lead the Ducks to the win. On the play in question, QBs should have to go to 1 knee to give themselves up. The hit wasn’t necessary and was about as vicious as it gets. The USC players’ celebration after the hit was as tasteless as Collin Simmons’s post-sack celebration earlier in the day.
That hit is what the targeting rule was meant to stop not some of the normal football plays where things happen when 2 large human beings collide.
Let’s come back east to drop into Tuscaloosa as things slowly come apart for the Gamecocks.
Dylan Stewart makes an ass of himself. Shane Beamer’s time at South Carolina is going to come to an end. South Carolina ran for 216 yards on Alabama but scored just 18 points. Bama has found their QB in Russell. The Cocks had a chance to jump on Bama early and missed a field goal due a penalty. The next drive they try on the dumbest version of a QB sneak on 4th down. Then the floodgates opened.
I believe the Dawgs are getting ready to go to Tuscaloosa and make a statement in 2 weeks.
Let’s move on to the Bayou where another former Big 12 SEC member’s season is officially on the brink staring into the abyss.
Texas A&M, you ain’t hiring Nick Saban. If Texas couldn’t convince him to leave Bama, you aren’t going to convince him to come out of a retirement that he seems to love. You need a quarterback more than anything. Marcel Reed is worse than John Mateer. At least, Mateer can make an accurate throw when given time.
I could have posted another submission making fun of Elko’s body shape, but that has gotten old.
Little brother is in trouble.
Let’s end this week’s trip as the Nerds of North Avenue fear the Tree in Palo Alto and StinkTalk didn’t disappoint. The end of the Drought draws nearer.
Ken Whisenhunt is the nerds’ Obi-Wan Kenobi. 12 penalties, -2 turnover margin, and 4th and 45 tell me they aren’t the geniuses on the field we’re supposed to believe they are.
The Jacketasses may not be a point spread favorite again this season (at home against Boston College may be the exception).
Pain is coming in Sanford in November, and I can’t wait to see us make them quit.
The only problem with that is that StinkTalk won’t be open for lurking. #firstworldproblems
What caught your eye this week? Let us know in the comments.
Everyone’s Scoring in Athens
I’m not sure we’ve properly appreciated this. Four weeks into the season, and your Georgia Bulldogs are the only CFB team to score on a fumble recovery, and interception, and a special teams return.
The broadcast threw up a graphic that showed we had scored some insane amount in the first quarter all season, and I told my buddy what a disappointment we only eeked out a touchdown when we’d been averaging closer to 28 points in the first quarter.
Fire Bobo.
I keed I keed. But there’s something different about this team…four covered spreads, scoring like it’s going out of style, and playing tremendous defense so far this season. Maybe there’s a reason:
Kirby’s on the mother. Thank God, because meanwhile in Gainesville:
The bad news: Florida seems to be good again.
Good news: Faulkner isn’t likely to be there long. I hear they may need a new coach in South Carolina, and I’d imagine Buster can name his price.
He’ll, they might need a new on at Texas A&M, too. Buster will be a head coach soon enough.
Your September 23rd Reminder that Auburns Sucks
I’m just going to leave this here:
Not sure if that’s more of an indictment on Auburn or if it’s speaking to the Jorts Wearing Optimists in Hogtown’s false positives about Florida being back.
Rooting very very hard for Trinidad and Company to tamper down the Gators this weekend.
Vegas High on Hogtown: Litigators v Gators
You’d think dispatching two Top 25 teams would have given Ole Miss some credit, but per Vegas and the betters, suddenly, Florida is favored against Ole Miss this weekend.
Why? Well, there’s several factors at play, and I’d argue a lot of it has to do with a short body of work, but since people like playing with data, here’s the breakdown:
- Ole Miss versus the Run – Jaden Baugh is one of the leading rushers in the SEC, while Ole Miss is worst in the SEC versus the run at 159 yards per game average, against Florida’s 5th best SEC average of 247.5 yards per game. BUT, Ole Miss has played two teams that are in the top 40 in rushing (LSU with 228 and Louisville with 211) while Florida’s stats were padded by going up against Campbell (no data), Florida Atlantic (second to last in rushing defense in all of NCAA FBS)…but did shred Auburn’s defense, which still sits in the Top 25 in rushing defense among all NCAA teams.
What’s notable is Florida’s pass defense is 78th in the nation, after going up against the 15th (FAU) and 47th (Auburn) ranked units in passing offense. Neither are filled with All-Stars and it’s likely that Florida hasn’t seen an offense like this all season.
2. Recency bias – 2024, Ole Miss comes in as the hot commodity but loses to an unranked Florida team, lead by Billy Napier. I guess someone in Vegas believes Ben Hill has “mystique”.
3. Let Down Factor – again, betting that Florida is a “let down” game for Ole Miss after the LSU game…but are they considering the Auburn game was a big game for Florida? Is Ole Miss a let down game for Sumrall’s group, too? Who knows.
This is a game where people are hedging their bets on stats and assumptions, and I can’t say they’re all totally wrong. The Florida folks haven’t been this high on themselves in a good long while, so Ben Hill Griffin will be hopping and it’s a 3:30 pm kickoff, to boot, so Natty Light, Jorts, and Orange State Optimism will be in high gear.
Some people aren’t buying it…yet…
I’ll be pulling for Ole Miss, and hoping that Florida’s momentum doesn’t build any higher. Nothing worse than an inspired Florida football fan, let alone an inspired football team.
If Florida wins, I hope it’s by the book and it’s the right way. You know how Ole Miss is when it comes to attorneys.
Trash talk before a Temu meteor game
Handbags talking about another school’s home conference record is rich.
Is this the game where the resistible force meets the movable object?
Handbags vs the Barn? How many meth heads can assemble in one place?
Refugees, feel free to let both schools know they suck.
Blame It on the Rain, Man
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what peak coping looks like.
These are the same people that will say Florida is more of an elite program than Georgia since 1990, let’s ignore everything that happened in the 100 years prior.
They like to argue that Kirby’s playing days hatred that was established in the 90s is fueling his passion for beating Florida. I guess the same holds true for Tennessee, but what about Tech? Kirby went 3-1 against Tech as a player, with this last game against the NATS being a 21-19 loss. He went 1-3 against Florida and 0-4 against Tennessee, yet he’s only lost to Tennessee once and Tech once. He never played against Texas and is 3-0 as a head coach against the Longhorns (correction…3-1, forgot about the “We’re Back Sugar Bowl”.
They’re not wrong that Napier was awful and Mullen gave up, even if he was the Portal Master. Sumrall is talking a big game, but, hey, so did the two listed above and where did that get them?
Maybe, just maybe, he’s actually just a great coach. I know Florida hasn’t seen one of those in a long, long time, so maybe that’s why they’re having such a hard time making sense of it all.
Going Retro in Gainesville
It’s been 60 years since SOS won a Heisman as the signal caller for the Gators, and the team wants to show their proper respects.
Not gonna lie, it looks pretty clean and I’ve never liked the script “Gators” on their helmets because it looks childish and goofy. But that’s just my personal opinion.
In other news, they’re also unveiling a more appropriate helmet design in Hogtown, one that is an homage to the Gator Nation.
Works for me.
Sum Or All…Going All In on Bravado at SEC Media Days
Lord, it was blowhard day in Tampa, Florida.
First, from Pete Golding and how he kept Chambliss in Oxford:
Sure, Pete. It had nothing to do with lawyers, either, did it?
Meanwhile, new Handbags Coach John Sumrall was about to go all WWF on the media when a phone went off during his tirade.
No, he won’t back down from proper electronics usage. Maybe focus on avoiding this, instead:
Don’t lose to the ACC. Make that an imperative and maybe the rest of the conference can take you seriously.
Wishing him the worst of luck in the year ahead.