Though Arkansas and Mississippi State are both underdogs for their games this weekend, it’s a big win over teams like LSU and Alabama that will eventually start making recruits see these programs in an equal light as the Tigers and Crimson Tide.
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Alabama at Mississippi State Saturday, 12:30 pm PT – CBS CRIS Opener: Alabama -7 O/U 49.5 CRIS Current: Alabama -7.5 O/U 50 Recommendation: Alabama Off last week’s win over LSU, Alabama has positioned itself for a berth in the four-team playoffs.
The Rebels didn’t handle late-season disappointment well a year ago after star receiver Laquon Treadwell was injured in a home loss to Auburn.
“We have a chance to play an upset LSU team, I’m sure they’re not happy with how things went last week, which doesn’t bode well for us, they are very talented team, got talented players”.
Losses to LSU and Texas A&M in the first five games of the season took Mississippi State out of the running for the SEC West title early. Don’t forget the 418 rushing yards and seven scores on the ground, either.
Fournette came into the game averaging 193 yards with nine straight 100-yard efforts. That’s an outstanding effort against a TCU offense that had thrown only 5 picks all season coming into the contest.
In what turned out to be his best game of the year, Alabama running back Kenyan Drake totaled 163 all-purpose yards, including 68 yards rushing, 55 yards on kickoff returns and 40 receiving in the Tide’s win over LSU on Saturday.
Razorbacks rank third in SEC in passing offense while their quarterback ranks first in efficiency and second in every other category in the conference; including touchdowns, yards, yards per completion and yards per attempt. “I would love to play anybody in that top four again, because I know whoever is picked in that top four is going to be a high caliber team and they’re going to be able to stop the run and they’re going to have a complete defense”. The time is ripe for a State upset of Bama, particularly since it does not go into the game in the rare air of No. 1 that it couldn’t quite handle last season. State is under the radar and waiting in the bushes. There are few who plan for the big game like Saban, with about big game gamer across the field. I think he just decided that if that guy was going to be that low, I’m just going to pop over the top. They’ve experienced it. I think it’s a more relaxed or confident feeling about having to play. Maybe it’s a lack of pressure that they feel because they’ve been in this situation before instead of not knowing what to expect or how to act in these situations.
Name the two SEC teams with the best records in their last 25 games.
The pressure is on Alabama. The winning bidder, who has not yet been identified, also will get autographed LSU and SC helmets from Miles and former SC coach Steve Spurrier.
“…all the various social media feeds I am required to watch were inundated with “Les Miles sucks” and “terrible play calling” themed messages”. It got them back in the game. Baylor (8-0) 7. Stanford (8-1) 8. We were also on the wrong side of Missouri’s 31-13 loss to Mississippi State and Tennessee’s closer than expected 28-24 win over SC.
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16 Florida State (7-2) 17. Kentucky (4-5, 2-5). 12. Oklahoma (8-1) 13. MI State (8-1) 14. It happens, happens to the best of us. Meanwhile, the Crimson Tide’s X-factors are that they got a momentum boost by beating LSU 30-16, and Derrick Henry outplayed Leonard Fournette after Henry rushed for 210 yards and three TDs.
