[MUSIC] A late one here, updated SEC Power Rankings. Thank you, Ole Miss, LSU playing a four plus hour game. Multiple overtime games this weekend in the SEC. Let's break it on down with the SEC Power Rankings. And again, only metric used for these. Team A meets Team B on a neutral field. Who am I taking to win the game? So, I hope that's clear. I'm already seeing massive confusion. [MUSIC] What a day, what a day. Yeah, Mississippi State here, let's get, let's get into it again. Power, updated Power Ring, number 16, Mississippi State. I mean, how can you say anything other than 16? I mean, you push Georgia, I guess. Georgia looked lax a days ago, I don't know how elite Georgia really is. But credit Mississippi State, you fought hard, I guess. But you were never really gonna win that game or anything. So, no, dead last Mississippi State. Auburn not gonna spend a ton of time on you, you didn't play, you're 15th. Actually, I dropped them, dropped Florida. Or it should be, I rose Florida to 14th, so Florida's 15th, Auburn 15th, Florida. What a game, what a game, you blew that one, I'm gonna drink one here. This is who we're drinking to this week. Well, we got another guy we're gonna drink to here in a minute. This is Mark Stoops, we'll get to him in a minute. This is the only thing Mark Stoops does that's worth his shit, is this bourbon here. It's very good, shout out. He's probably gonna be selling it here in a couple months when he gets let go. Already won, shout out, but I'm drinking this, I think I'm gonna drink this every episode until Billy Napier gets fired. Now, I hope he doesn't get fired because he's lost Tennessee twice in three years, which is unbearable for Florida fan, I know, but hell, they had that game. They, I still don't know how Tennessee won that game. They don't deserve to win that game, not impressed with Tennessee win in that game. More impressed with Florida owning most of the game, but then of course, blowing it like they always do. So Florida, you're 14, not gonna spend a ton of time on you. How about, oh God, 13 boomer sooner. All we heard about all week, all you don't know about this rivalry, throw the records out, throw the stats out. Why? You got your ass kicked like we all knew you were gonna do. I mean, it was totally uncompetitive. Now you got a good defense, defense hung in there, but the offense is just a damn train wreck. What the hell are we doing? A lot of injuries too. So I mean, we have to say it, but we knew that going into the game. So why in the hell did anyone expect anything other? I don't know. And again, I'll just throw it up Oklahoma schedule. Now they'll, hopefully they'll get some of these guys back, but how many more games are winnable? Okay, we'll get to South, South Carolina is winnable, but again, they, they pushed Alabama today at Ole Miss, I don't think that's winnable at Mizzou, that's winnable Alabama at LSU. I mean, not, not with this offense here. You ain't winning many of those games. Oklahoma in for a long year, unfortunately. All right. How about number 12, Missouri? I dropped the mid from your, your name, your Missouri again, dominant performance against UMass. Again, that's not very impressive, but you, you did rise a spot because Oklahoma looks so pathetic. So Missouri, you're in the top 12, not of the playoff of the SEC. Number 11, Kentucky. Oh, Kentucky, Kentucky, Kentucky, they, they fooled us all. They beat Ole Miss. We thought they were good again. Ain't good. This was why I picked Vanderbilt, well, we'll get to Vanderbilt in a minute, but this is why I picked him. It's not even so much. I had confidence in Vanderbilt. I had no confidence in Kentucky to get this thing done. So Kentucky, I mean, I mean, they're awful and I don't think it's getting any better. They're another one. Let's throw a pair of schedule. If you can't beat Vanderbilt, who the hell are you beating? You beating Florida at Florida. I don't think so. Not the Florida I just saw Auburn. Probably not even. I mean, hell, I don't know, but if Auburn doesn't blow it, they may beat you. But again, I don't see many wins here for Kentucky, the way they're playing. So Kentucky said to say you're done. Number 11, number 10, South Carolina showed a lot of heart, nearly knocked off Alabama, but it was, your defense was dominant. Your offense was dog shit. They did make some plays, had opportunities. The two point there, play was there. You had it. You got the on side. Man, would that have been exciting if you did something with it and then you shut your pants there, it was awful. Yeah, South Carolina, I don't know what we're doing on the offensive side of the football, but if their offense was as good as their defense, they'd be a playoff team. Their, their, their defense is playing to that level. So South Carolina's number 10, mostly because of their defense. Number nine, Tennessee, I could say the same thing. What in the hell is going on with Tennessee there? Nine might be charitable to them after that performer that took to overtime to beat Florida Gators. You were, what, 15 and a half point favorite, I don't, Tennessee went from looking like a national championship contender to a Birmingham bowl contender in a matter of two weeks. I don't know what the hell's wrong with them, but they're, this is all, this offense. I was kind of kidding, but not really, I mean, this looks like Jeremy Prude offense. What in the hell is going on? And if not for the defense, saving Hypo's ass in this game, his, he may be sitting on a seat that's getting warmer, but they won. So yeah, your number nine, number eight Arkansas, you didn't play. You bumped up a spot because Tennessee looks so pathetic. I thought Alabama, I dropped them way down. They did win the game. Alabama's number seven, not impressed at all with Alabama. Now we got Alabama, their defense is dog shit, going to Tennessee, whose offense is dog shit. So dog shit battle here on Saturday should be a fun one next week, third Saturday of October. I don't even know how much excitements with this game anymore. The way these two teams are playing, I, you know, that it's been billed as an elimination game. Hell, they're probably both eliminated the way they're playing. They're going to lose multiple games to each of them. If they don't turn a corner quick, LSU number six, Bantat, this is your best win without a doubt, come from behind. I think that's the biggest takeaway of today, Garrett Nussmeyer, he's legit. If you had any doubt, just go watch that game today. Big time throws in that game, come from behind the win. He's awesome, a lot of respect for LSU game today, but I still got Ole Miss number five. And again, I'm already seeing it in the comments. How in the hell can you have it? This is neutral field. If this game was played in Oxford, I think Ole Miss would have won. If it was played in a neutral field, I think Ole Miss would have won. So just by a slight margin, I don't think you could watch that game and say Ole Miss did anything to lose it. I mean, their defense was outstanding, offense-making plays, they were really banged up. They are excelling at the fake injuries, that's really helping them. But very slight difference between five and six, but I still think Ole Miss will slightly better than LSU. Vanderbilt number four, Red Hot Vanderbilt going to Kentucky to touchdown dog whooping Kentucky's ass for most, Kentucky scored late to make it look respectable. Vanderbilt dominated that game, Diego, Diego Pavia. He should be up for the Heisman. They won't give it to him because he plays for Vanderbilt and he doesn't have crazy statistics, but there's no one more exciting to watch play football right now, in my opinion, than Diego Pavia. Number three A&M, I moved them up, they didn't even play this week, but the way they're running the ball, the way they're defending the run, it's an elite. Now can they keep it up? Doesn't seem like anybody can keep anything up this season, so I don't know how confident I am in Texas saying them to stay number three, but I got them number three for right now. Number two, I got the Georgia Bulldogs again. I guess we got to give them their due because they're winning, but they don't look elite to me. They don't look like the teams of the past, and maybe they're just going through a rut, and maybe I'm being too harsh on them because we're kind of grading them on a scale, but Carson Beck doesn't look like this. Number one, future pick, Heisman contender that he was billed to be, didn't look bad, but just doesn't look elite either. So I don't know what to make of Georgia right now. They can completely change the narrative next week when they go down to Austin to face the number one team in the SEC right now, Texas Longhorns just beat the hell out of Oklahoma. I mean, it was, they looked really bad in the first quarter, Texas did, and they still walloped Oklahoma, and by looking bad, they were down three zero. They could do nothing on offense, but their defense was great. Just completely stifled Oklahoma. And then when the offense finally found footing, this, this was an avalanche. This was not even a ball game. Basically, whenever Texas scored a touchdown, that was all she wrote in this football game. So Texas year number one, it's got a shit ton of cut. Let's get into the comments here. Um, oh, we have, we do have a video from cousin Shane, uh, how about slider that so large? Appreciate your brother. He gave us 20 bucks. He says Georgia should be 10 at best Bobo better be gone by the end of next year. I'm, I'm telling you, it's not just me saying it's, this is Georgia fans, none too thrilled about what they're seeing from their Georgia Bulldogs, which I get it. They don't, they don't look like a championship type team, but, uh, they could, they could get there. Uh, let's see. I'm trying to download this video for you guys real quick, Shane. He wanted me to play this, his reaction to Tennessee, Florida. Let's see if I can get it uploaded real quick and fire away with some questions here. Well, it looks like I'm walking after all. Oh, God, uh, this is, this is making for great podcasting here. Shit. I don't think I can get it, but we'll play it on the next episode. Um, how about Daniel? He says you mass hasn't seen someone run as fast as Luther burdens since Paul Revere. Yeah, I mean, uh, Mizzou outclass, anybody that missed it and why would you have watched that damn game unless you, uh, or of course a Mizzou fan, but Mizzou took care of business, beat the hell at a UMass 45 three and Luther Burns scored on the second play totally outclass damn UMass, but, um, let's not talk to you, UMass football in here. Come on guys. It's late as hell. It's, uh, this David saying to go watch an LSU show, why the hell would anybody want to watch that garbage? Those drunks sitting there celebrating another victory. Unless you got lucky as hell, Brian says, doors are ready for Texas. That might be the game of the year for people that note, don't know. That's on the schedule here coming up, Texas is coming to Vanderbilt after after playing the gauntlet of Oklahoma, which they smoked, and then Georgia next week, man, they're going to be beaten up. They're going to be bruised. I think Vanderbilt, the way Vanderbilt's playing, they might give Texas a better game than Oklahoma. Hell they, they should. Who knows? I might give him a better game in Georgia. The way Georgia's playing mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, Mike is pierce LSU one. No, no, no, no, not piss. I mean, that was a hell of a game. The only thing that made me piss was that it went four hours, and we're doing this at damn midnight past midnight on the East Coast here. How about this? Hey, Mike, hogs going to beat LSU next weekend. Come on down, no, that's going to be a hell of a game. But, you know, let's see where I have them in the power. I mean, I got LSU six, I got Arkansas eight, it's in Fayetteville. So certainly, yeah, I think Arkansas can win that game, but LSU is pretty hot right now. So I would anticipate LSU is a slight favorite. But that doesn't mean much. LSU is underdog today. Arkansas is underdog against Tennessee. So David Chambers says, Red's still got a chance, good game, LSU, absolutely, especially the way that game played out losing it over time. I don't think the losses like that are going to kill you. I really don't. And now is Georgia must win, perhaps, but again, the theme of the show. How good is Georgia? They're good. They're, I'm not saying they're, they're horrible or anything, but they'll be coming off Texas, Florida, Ole Miss, that's a, that's a, that's a little bit of a gauntlet right there for the Georgia Bulldogs. So based, hell of Mississippi State can play with Georgia. If Kentucky can play with Georgia, then Ole Miss can beat Georgia. I don't have any doubt about that. What else we got? Yeah. Uers did not look great. He didn't look, he started out, he looked horrible. And there was a lot of people calling for arch. And then he settled in. He's been rusty. You know, he's, he's been out. And then he, then he looked pretty, pretty solid, but yeah, didn't look as good before he got injured, but I, I think that's kind of natural. And what does that say about Texas that their quarterback didn't even look that good and they whooped their main rival's ass? I mean, I, I think that says a lot of the overall quality of Texas and they're roster. Uh, yeah, I'll use worse than state. Oh, no, I wouldn't go that far. I would not go that far. Mm hmm. NAL is compressing the marginal difference between the teams. Think that's why no one looks as elite. That's cousin Joel. He might be right. I think he might be right. And I mean, hell, uh, again, I'm going to throw up these power rankings here so people can see him, but I mean, Texas looks really good. Of course, you know, weak schedule here, but it's ramping up. They still look good against top competition today. But to Joel's point there, I mean, what is the difference between, say, I mean, I don't know, LSU and I mean, through Tennessee, I'm not to South Carolina even, I mean, South Carolina and LSU, they, that went down to the damn wire. I mean, there's, there is very little separation this year. It's, it's wild and Mississippi state playing with Texas, playing with Georgia kind of proves that as well. Cause I think those two teams are, are miles apart, but hell, they weren't really when they played on the field and I know I love to troll Hugh Freeze, but if they had not turned the ball over so many times, they've got a winning record. If Florida didn't have a complete idiot as a head coach, they got a winning record. I mean, all these teams are an idiot coach away, a pick six away from looking pretty good. How about this one from Kyle? Appreciate your brother, under pressure, Lenoir Sellers is no diamond. Good game, Bama. Yeah. Yeah, he threw a couple up there that he shouldn't have and had he not done that South Carolina probably would have won that game. And that was not a fluke either. That was just, I, Alabama, I don't know what the hell it came to the boards over there smiling. He's happy. We were winning by two points. Oh man. Oh bad. Man, man, man. Oh bad, man, man, man, everybody is good. Any given Saturday that's Tennessee wasn't too good today. Maybe for about a quarter they were, they were decent. Their defense is solid, but I just can't get over that how pitiful their offense is. It is pathetic. What else we got here? Niko looks really shy to take a hit. Yeah. I think, I think that's fair. I think that's fair. All these people, all these Texas people are mad. I got Vanderbilt for them. They're winning. Very few teams are winning right now. They're on a hot streak. How great would it be if Vanderbilt knocked off Texas? I'd have to put them number one. They should be. They'd be should be number one in the country if they were able to do that. Dakota says, thanks for taking the mid out of zoo. You sound like a suit of oil. Missouri earned it. Missouri earned it. I didn't do it to them. They did it to themselves and they undid it to themselves so I took it off. But if they do it again, I could, I reserved the right to put that back in their name. Why do you hate mazoo? Because I've watched them play. That would be, I've watched every snap they've taken this year and that, that has caused that reaction because I've actually watched them. Appreciate you, Joel. He just gave us 10 bucks. Bill Valentine says, Dave Mack is a win-a-win-a-win don't hate on Bama. To beat South Carolina at home by two, I would be hating on that. That was pretty pathetic. I mean, at Mill Row, either two picks, one of them was just so bad in the end zone, it ran for 104 yards on South Carolina, gave up 122. What is there to like about this? I mean, it's idiots like Bill that will worship at the feet of their coach that is destroying their program. And the next thing you know, you got Billy and Apier and you're saying, can we get Lane Kiffin? I mean, that's going to be built about two years if they hold on to this debore. Michael Rawley says Ray Charles could stop the Florida offense. That's fair. So maybe Tennessee's defense even in that good. Maybe it's not even that good. There's no elite team in the, yes, you see, that could be the case. Could be. That looks pretty elite. They look pretty elite today, truffle, shuffle, appreciate your brother. He gave us five bucks. He says, please ensure cousin Shane picks Mississippi state next week cousin Shane says he's taken offers on his lock of the week. So yes, cousin Shane, once again, missed his lock of the week. He had Ole Miss. I think he's missed every damn one. I think he's gotten one right this entire year. He's back to being the professor. He can't save a game to pick his life. Phil, appreciate your brother. Where does Tennessee go from here? Let's pull up a schedule because it might be going to hell. Let's see. It could be Florida, but they got Bama coming in again, Bama doesn't look that impressive, but yeah, well, Kentucky at home, Mississippi state at home should, hell, you just never know. You can't count any of these as wins anymore. Even playing in the, playing in the other state and playing Florida's defense, I thought Tennessee would have just go up and down the field on them. They couldn't do shit for most of the game. So I don't, the hell they probably lose the Vanderbilt, if Vanderbilt keeps it up. So where does Tennessee go? Maybe eight and four or something like that, if I had to pick it today, after seeing that, they got to pick it up on off. Now here's the thing. It's not total doom and gloom. If Nikko would just hit some downfield throws, they're calling them and the, and the plays are there, but he's missing them and if Tennessee can't push them all down the field, defenses are just going to creep up, stop the run and they should because they can't hit those deep balls. And this is two in a row now where they, I don't think they've hit a one of them and they keep trying and trying and trying and they get, they have to. They have to do it in this offense. Otherwise it won't work. And that, I think that's why it's not working because they're not connecting on the deep field throws, but the, the plays are there to be made. He's just missing them. Well, and some of them, he's really missing them, but he's just missing them. In most of them, cousin Shane Yufu. Whoops, you still got the Tennessee shit up here. All right. What other questions we got? Bill still mad bill is, oh, he's, oh, he stays mad. Why does Bill keep showing up? But he just shows up to cuss me up cousin Shane says that may be Tennessee's last. Well, they still got you tip that you tip is a win, Shane. So don't don't overlook that one. Hmm, I don't know how to say your name. I apologize Z Y gal, but Mike, I have seen enough. Mizzou is beating Bama in two weeks. Like as crazy as that sounds, the way Mizzou played a week ago, getting destroyed by A&M. That's not crazy because Bama nearly just lost to South Carolina. Bama got humiliated by Vanderbilt. I mean, all these are possibilities. Again, I'll throw up Bama's schedule. I mean, if Vanderbilt's beating them in South Carolina is pushing them to the brink and probably should have won, South Carolina probably should have won in Tuscaloosa. Every one of these damn games, except for Mercer, can be lost by Alabama. All of them now it's, I'm not sitting here saying they're going to lose all of them, but they'll probably lose two more bare minimum, the way they, they played today. And last week, this is not a fluke. This is apparently this is who Alabama is. And if they were to replay Georgia today, I think Georgia would beat the hell out of them. And, and again, I don't even think Georgia's like the best team in the country or anything like it. I think Alabama just keeps taking steps down. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. What a name he said, I lost, lost to Bama, but 175, there you go. Better guess your team. That way you always win in the end. I learned that a long time ago being a Tennessee guy here. Mm. Mm. Mm. Bill, Bill's trying to fight me now. Mm. Mm. I, I do not want to fight you, Bill. I do. I do. Unless no, no, I'm not going to finish that thought. I do not want to fight you, Bill. Because of Shane, we will be at Knoxville Friday. Let's drink some beer. Yeah. We're going to be, hopefully I, I think the way we're going to do it, we're going to be at Cal Hunes on the river with, I haven't even asked this guy, so I should probably, we shouldn't even have said that, but, uh, Tony Basilio does his show down there. And then Paul Finebaum does his show, not from Cal Hunes, but on campus. So I'm hoping to get on with both those guys on Friday. So if you're coming up, maybe Bill, maybe he does want to fight me. He's an Alabama guy. Come on up Cal Hunes. You can fight me, uh, at Cal Hunes on the river Friday, should be a good time. Bill, he says, oh, state lost. So that offense, some of the pain watching Tennessee trash offense and mind numbing, play calling. Oh, oh, Ohio State got you. Yeah. They helped with the Ohio State feel. I agree with that, but I did honestly didn't even watch that game. I know people kept asking me about it, but I don't give a shit for not SEC teams because the Shane, which top 25 teams should be panicking the most right now. I'm glad you asked that Shane cause it's got, it's got to be, I don't know if Oklahoma is going to be ranked anymore. It would be them with their offense, but, um, probably Tennessee, Tennessee's still going to be ranked, but they should not be in the top 10. That's ridiculous. And then the announcer's about 20 times a game and it's not just the Tennessee game. It's hell, it's all the games because they're pushing the playoff. They need to stop with this, this nonsense. If Tennessee loses his game, their playoff odds do this. If it wins, it does, they're, they're not even on the planet of being a playoff team. Why the hell are we wasting breath talking about their odds go up and down? If they win this game, lose that game, it's, it's, it's asinine, but I'm sure they're being told to do that by ESPN because ESPN's got the rights, but again, that's why it's good to be independent. You don't, you don't have to tell you, you don't have people telling you what you're supposed to say and all that. Cause I, I think it's nonsense. When you're getting your ass kicked at home by Florida, the last thing on your mind should be the playoffs should be fixing this God awful offense because you're going to go 84 75. You don't fix it. What do you think will be in the SCC championship game? Well, I'm going to ride with Texas and Texas A&M. I know they played the last game of the regular season, but how about they do it two weeks in a row? I mean, how, how crazy would that be? That's what I want to see. Does Kirby get suspended? Yeah. Anybody that missed it. This was wild. And this is when you really see fanboys come out and all the dogs are mad at me. Kirby pushed Mississippi States quarterback, Michael Van Buren, just fucking, you know, he didn't obliterate him or anything, but he gave him a very hard shove. I thought, I mean, I've never seen quite anything like it other than who was there, there was like an old Ohio state coach, I think back in the 70s, like Chokeslam, the guy. It was nowhere to that level, obviously, but I'm exaggerating a little bit, but he did. He was going for the ref and his quarterback's air and he just fucking shoved the hell out of him. And again, I'm not saying like Kirby should be fined or anything like that, but just, just imagine for a second the role reversal there. If Mississippi States quarterback had shoved Kirby smart, what do you think they would have done to that player? I think they would have thrown his ass out of the game and they would have said we can't tolerate this kind of behavior. And I thought the coaches were supposed to set an example and be, you know, even better, but they didn't throw a flight, they didn't give a shit, you know? I don't know. I didn't understand that. That was, that was a, that was weird. I don't know that I've ever seen that. There was no penalty or anything. Should have been a penalty. There you go. Woody Hayes. It was no Woody Hayes moment. He didn't Chokeslam anybody, but it was, it was weird by getting high. I have never seen that for it. I don't think that should be tolerated. Again, these coaches are, are supposed to be better, you know, they're, they're supposed to set the example for everybody and they're out here acting like crazy. So Georgia's losing their mojo. I think that's right. I think they have lost their mojo. Yeah, Daniel says you did see it. Well, I mean, it's different way at that A and M player to shove the ref. That should have been, he should have been rejected for that too. But again, the head coach pushing or just even touching another quarterback like I've never seen that. Never seen it. Truffle shuffle. Appreciate your horns are the most unproven top ranked team at the moment. Yeah, that's fair. But as Quentin would say, hook him $2, appreciate your brother. I'll say whenever you want, you give me money to say it. Make sure I didn't miss any, but anything else looks like we're about to push 30 minutes here. There's a lot of people in here. You are being harder on Tennessee than I expected. Are you down on them? Do you think? The Hypo is a buzz. Phil, aren't you the guy that said the Hypo is butch Jones 2.0 like four days ago? He's not butch Jones 2.0, but I mean, did you clearly you watch that game, right? I mean, Tennessee was not impressive. Were they? I'm looking up the stats right now. I mean, Nico 169 yards and a pick. He had some rough moments, Tennessee on third down four of 15 rushing 143 and really that just because over until over time they were Florida was out rushing Tennessee again. This is Florida. Florida is top like a hundred rush defenses in the country, top 100, not top 25. This is dog shit here and Tennessee couldn't do anything to him for most of the game. If they didn't have Dylan Sampson, they would have got their ass kicked on Saturday. So I don't think hypo is a bust, but I think, again, I think they're missing the downfield throws and some of these offensive linemen are getting dominated on the line of scrimmage. And that's trouble because Florida does not have a good defensive front. Now they looked good the last two weeks, but that was against UCF and now Tennessee. So maybe I'm under selling Florida, but Texas A&M and Miami whooped their ass all up and down the line of scrimmage because it says, which was worse than that LSU Ole Miss game targeting or fake injuries. Fake injuries had to be, God, brutal, Ole Miss deserves to lose for all these damn fake ass injuries they have in this game. I hate it. I hate it. And they even put out a statement. They're still doing it. It's so annoying, but apparently there's no penalty for it. All right, we're getting late here. Anything else here I'm about to hop off. I'm exhausted here. Thank you LSU and Ole Miss for going four plus hours. Vandy should be top 25. I agree. I got him as one of the best teams in the SEC. Loving it. Diego Pavia. Heisman. Come on. Mmm. Truffle shuffle says laughable, claiming Texas as a defense. I mean, they've been dominant. They've been dominant on defense. I guess we can just say him and play nobody until December, but we got to go off the results here. So hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm. I appreciate you cuz, Shane, if and nothing else, but yeah, I'm right here with George. I mean, Florida should have won that game by two touchdowns. Stupid play calling. They had three red zone trips that resulted in zero points in the first half. They blew it, but that's why their coach probably is not going to be there much longer. He shouldn't be, but let's go out on that note. I'm out of whiskey. We appreciate you. We'll be back Sunday six central seven eastern time for a breakdown and thank God I don't have to sing. You guys don't have to hear any of that garbage because Oklahoma got embarrassed like I thought they would. No bounce back, but that was a tough outing. Tough outing for the Sooners. That's all I got. I'm just rambling. We'll catch you all in the next. Hey, buddy, this beer is for you, Mike and cousin Shane that SEC podcast loves the pirate and the pirate loves that SEC podcast. Hail State. [BLANK_AUDIO]
