With three days left until No. 2 Florida and No. 1 Alabama square off in the SEC Championship Game, there’s still time for you to pick a winner.
So, who will it be? Florida? or Alabama?
Leave a comment and tell me who you want and why they’ll win.
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Who will it be? Florida or Alabama?
December 2nd, 2008, 5:52 pm by Josh WeinfussWTFs SEC Games of the Week
November 6th, 2008, 5:16 pm by Josh Weinfuss
Here’s the docket for this week’s SEC games.
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Game to watch:
Alabama at LSU, 2:30 p.m., CBS - Although the Tigers aren’t in the hunt for the national title, Nick Saban’s return to Baton Rouge, La., may overshadow everything else about this game — including the Crimson Tide’s bid to keep their No. 1 ranking.
The rest:
Georgia at Kentucky, 11:30 p.m. CST, Raycom - The Bulldogs need to keep winning to not give up the East.
Arkansas at South Carolina, noon CST - Will Spurrier see a better game out of quarterback Stephen Garcia? Or will the Hogs keep getting better?
Wyoming at Tennessee, noon CST, PPV-Vol Network - The Vols need to win in the first game after Fulmer announced he’s leaving UT after this season.
Tennessee-Martin at Auburn, 1:30 p.m. - The Tigers need this win more than they think.
Florida at Vanderbilt, 7 p.m., ESPN2 - The Gators can use this game to prove why they’re national championship game worhty. While the Commodores can do what they did in 2006, the last time UF came to Nashville — almost win.
WTF’s Games of the Week: 9/13
September 11th, 2008, 9:45 am by Josh Weinfuss
Here’s the docket for this week’s SEC games. My picks for Games of the Week are bolded.
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Saturday, Sept. 13
UAB at Tennessee, 11:30 a.m., Raycom - The Volunteers are coming off an upset by UCLA, with a bye week to boot. They have something to prove. Watch out Blazers.
Georgia at South Carolina, 2:30 p.m., CBS - The Bulldogs’ first real test this season. The Gamecocks can’t find a rhythm at quarterback. Georgia is going to try to prove why it should still be No. 1.
Arkansas at Texas, 2:30 p.m., ABC - Postponed until Sept. 27. Thanks, Ike.
Auburn at Mississippi State, 6 p.m., ESPN2 - National title talk is going through Auburn and Mississippi State is already considered a fluke from after last season’s bowl appearance. This could be make or break for the Bulldogs, while the Tigers continue to run a new spread offense to near domination.
Middle Tennessee at Kentucky, 6 p.m. - The Blue Raiders are coming off an upset of Maryland, but the Wildcats’ defense — the only one in the SEC to not allow a TD this season — will quiet all suspects of a BCS crasher.
Samford at Ole Miss, 6 p.m. - The Rebels are mad after losing to Wake Forest Sat-urday in a game they should have won.
Rice at Vanderbilt, 6 p.m. - The Commodores are riding high at 2-0 and an upset of then-No. 24 South Carolina. Let’s just hope they don’t play down to their opponent this week.
Western Kentucky at Alabama, 6:07 p.m., PPV - The Crimson Tide keep on rolling up the polls and will give the Hilltoppers a true welcome to the Bowl Subdivision.
North Texas at LSU, 7 p.m. - The Tigers haven’t played in two weeks and this week’s game nearly got postponed too because of Hurricane Ike. They’re hungry.
Clemson coach stirring Alabama’s pot
August 27th, 2008, 1:27 pm by Josh WeinfussI saw an interesting piece on ESPN this morning and followed it up by taking a look at the story on TheState.com.
Apparently, Clemson defensive coordinator Vic Koenning made a couple of comments about seeing two highly-recruited Alabama freshmen driving Cadillac Escalades during their senior seasons in high school.
And apparently, Koenning was joking. Well, the punch line didn’t go over too well, especially across the state of Alabama, where, according to The State, he has a summer home.
No. 9 Clemson and No. 24 Alabama play Saturday in Atlanta. The game starts at 7 p.m. Central on ABC.
The two players involved were Julio Jones, a highly, highly recruited wide receiver, and B.J. Scott, an-other highly touted product from the Class of 2008.
Here’s the catch: Koenning said he never recruited Jones. He did try to lure Scott to Clemson. Since the comments, Koenning has apologized profusely, even talking to Scott’s high school coach, who forgave him after banning him from the campus of Vigor High in Prichard, Ala.
On Wednesday’s SEC coaches conference call, Alabama coach Nick Saban said he didn’t have a re-sponse to Koenning’s comments.
“We try to do everything in a first class way here at Alabama,” Saban said. “We have tremendous respect for the rules. We have respect that they do the same thing at Clemson. It’s not even an issue.”
Broadway Joe to graduate from Alabama
December 11th, 2007, 10:10 am by Josh Weinfuss
Former Crimson Tide quarterback Joe Namath is scheduled to receive his college degree from Alabama on Saturday, 43 years after his final game in Tuscaloosa.
Namath, famously known for guaranteeing a New York Jets win in Super Bowl III and following through on the promise against the Baltimore Colts, will be one of more than 900 graduates participating in commencement ceremonies at Coleman Coliseum on the Alabama campus.
During the last five years, Namath has worked to complete his bachelor’s degree through Alabama’s External Degree program, better known as EXD. The EXD is an interdisciplinary program that allows adults to complete the requirements for a bachelor’s degree.
More than 1,500 students have graduated through the program, which was founded in 1973.
After leaving Alabama, Namath was selected by both the NFL and AFL, before the two merged, in 1964.
