His SEC Predictions: Music City Bowl: BC 24, Vandy 13 Peach Bowl: LSU 31, GA Tech 27 Outback Bowl: Iowa 28, S. Carolina 24 Capitol One Bowl: Georgia 45, Michigan State 24 Cotton Bowl: Texas Tech 45, Ole Miss 21 Liberty Bowl: East Carolina 21, Kentucky 12 Sugar Bowl: Alabama 34, Utah 14 BCS Championship: No prediction yet Not the best of results overall. But I honestly can find one to argue with. Here's the whole list.
It's definitely possible. Particularly if the team is down because they didn't make the big game. But man-man, I think Bama is going to win most of the individual contests. That's going to make it tough for Utah to win. If Wilson has a decent game, and the Bama defense doesn't just absolutely implode, I think it's an easy Bama win.
. . . . yes! :grin: The only logic anyone gives for Utah is that Alabama will be down and that they will play like garbage and lose. And the reality is that we've never seen Bama play this season following a loss, so we just don't know, but like the poster above said, they will be favored in every individual matchup and should be able to ride Coffee 25-30 times if worst comes to worst. This is a pretty sizable trip for Utah, who will have probably 5,000-6,000 fans there at the most and in a virtual road game, it's hard to see them having a shot in the 4th quarter. I could be wrong, but I think Nick Saban watches TV a little bit and realizes this is a letdown game for Bama. And I just think a team that can go 12-0 in the regular season and was told all year they were overrated will have a little more pride than to go out and lay an egg against Utah and prove everyone right. But we'll see. I say Bama wins soundly, though around 31-10 or so.
I agree with Clair [again-i'm counting] with the fact that this will be an Alabama home game...and it will be very loud in the dome. BUT, Utah will act like this is the Super Bowl and come out fired up and I expect them to hang around and stay in it maybe 20 minutes into the ball game. Something that caught my attention with Utah is that as much as they throw the ball, they dont usually throw the deep ball. JPW has more yardage on his long throw (64) than Brian Johnson's long of 55. I'm not in any way saying that JPW is a better QB, it's just a nugget of info that was interesting to me. We can argue that the only real defense that Utah has played all year has been TCU. They were held to 13 points. Utah has also given up 20+ points on the year to BYU, Oregon St (gave up 300+ passing yards), Air Force, Michigan and Weber State (gave up 300+ passing yards). Although they have arguably the best kicker in the nation in Louie Sakoda, who has kicked 21 FG's this season, they will have to score TD's instead of settling for FG's because Alabama will run the ball often. Another thing to recognize is that their OC, Andy Ludwig, will not coach in the game since he has accepted his new job at KState. I just dont think that they can battle the crowd, keep up with our offensive line, or have too much success against our defense. Glenn Coffee and Mark Ingram, behind our huge offensive line, wears them down with the run and I think that they get burnt a few times with the PA pass. Look for Julio to have another good game. Alabama 38, Utah 13
Re: Stuart Mandel: LSU 31, GA Tech 27 We aren't very deserving this year... Hope that we can have a good bowl showing though. We need it.
Re: Stuart Mandel: LSU 31, GA Tech 27 I don't disagree, but those are all the same teams that UF and Bama beat to have such a strong SOS. So which is it?
Re: Stuart Mandel: LSU 31, GA Tech 27 What do you mean which is it? The SEC is down...UF and Bama took advantage of it. Apologies that we didn't bomb like the rest. We beat everyone we had scheduled. Before the season, everyone was talking about how we would lose 4-5 games due to our tough road schedule. Cant help it that UT, AU, Clemson, UGA, and LSU sucked. I mean, what do you want me to say?
Re: Stuart Mandel: LSU 31, GA Tech 27 You could say that the point Legacy Tiger was trying to make went way over your head.
