SEC Power Poll, Week 3

by Glenn Logan on Sep 25, 2009 8:53 AM EDT in Kentucky Wildcats Football

The SEC Power Poll is out as of yesterday, and this week's poll did not include the loss by Ole Miss last night to South Carolina, so you will see Ole Miss ranked rather higher than they would be if the poll had been taken today.

First, some comments on the overall results:

Alabama is making headway against the Gators. I thought they would have made more after the Tennessee game.
Ole Miss will be a' droppin'.
South Carolina will be a' risin'. I think we can say, at this point, that the Gamecocks have legitimized themselves with the narrow loss at Georgia and defeating the Rebels in Columbia.
We won't know if Auburn is for real for two more weeks vs. Tennessee.
Not sure why Arkansas gets more respect than UK at this point.
Not sure why UT gets less respect than UK at this point, especially after playing Florida so tough.

My ballot follows after the jump.

Team	cWL	W-L	bWL	SoS	This week	MoV	PF-PA	Next opponent	Polls	Remarks
Alabama		3-0	1-0	54.92	Beat North Texas	27.3	127-45	Arkansas	3	The Tide keeps rolling. They rolled right over a decent North Texas team.
Florida	1-0	3-0	1-0	44.14	Beat Tennessee	39.7	141-22	at Kentucky	1	The Gators did not look invincible against the Vols.
LSU	2-0	4-0	3-0	59.86	Beat Louisiana-Lafayette	16	108-44	at Mississippi State	7	Solid win. They visit a resurgent MSU next week.
Mississippi		2-0		48.44	Beat Southeastern Louisiana	38.5	97-20	Thu, at South Carolina	4,5	So far, untested. Next week vs. the Gamecocks will give us a clue as to how good the Rebels really are.
Auburn	1-0	3-0	2-0	52.6	Beat West Virginia	20	127-67	Ball State	28,29	Gotta give Chizik credit, he is getting it done so far, and putting points on the board in the process.
Georgia	2-0	2-1	2-1	61.15	Won at Arkansas	0.3	103-102	Arizona State	21,17	103 points scored, 102 points allowed. The Dawgs are getting it done with smoke and mirrors, not defense.
Kentucky		2-0	1-0	48.27	Beat Louisville	23	73-27	Florida	36	Not exactly impressive, but Kentucky was clearly the better team. They won't be next week against the defending national champs.
South Carolina	0-1	2-1	1-1	49.9	Beat Florida Atlantic	7.3	82-60	Thu, Mississippi	38	Two games in a row with 30+ points. One more and they match their total for 30+ point game for all of 2008.
Arkansas	0-1	1-1	0-1	60.1	Lost to Georgia	13.5	89-62	at Alabama		Flunked their first test at home against a beatable Georgia team.
Mississippi State	1-1	2-1	1-1	58.92	Won at Vanderbilt	8.3	84-59	LSU		Maybe a new coach does make a difference.
Tennessee	0-1	1-2	0-2	54.34	Lost at Florida	14	91-49	Ohio		Monte has created a defensive monster, but the offense is inCrompetent.
Vanderbilt	0-3	1-3	0-3	47.76	Lost to Mississippi State	1.3	66-61	at Rice		Hmm. Everyone had this team ranked above Kentucky for SEC cellar honors?

So what do you think?

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I think I am getting to the point that I dont trust polls until there have been at least 6 games played

hehehe…..you know, of all of those wins by programs at the top of this, that Louisville win looks as good as any of those other teams that got beat…..maybe we are decent enough to pull this off this week…..and maybe I am having another lapse in mental acuity…..who knows??

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by ALLBLUCAT on Sep 25, 2009 9:01 AM EDT reply actions

I agree with you.

I think Louisville is better than people think. They have a tough go this week, but it would not shock me if they got the job done. Their D-line is a real problem for them, though, they did not get one iota of pressure on Hartline last week. But their secondary is damn good.

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by Glenn Logan on Sep 25, 2009 9:03 AM EDT up reply actions

Carolina

What do you two think about Carolina and how they shut down Ole Miss? I was impressed to see their defense handle the Ole Miss passing game the way they did.

by ParisGuy on Sep 25, 2009 11:48 AM EDT reply actions

I think Ole Miss aint up to the hype......

but time will tell……

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by ALLBLUCAT on Sep 25, 2009 12:31 PM EDT up reply actions

I think South Carolina has a good defense.

At the same time, I think that Ole Miss’ offensive line performed very poorly, and Jevan Snead performed little better. They failed to get the ball to their best offensive players, and they just did not accomplish anything meaningful from scrimmage.

USC’s D-line is pretty good, and it makes their secondary look great. Just take a look at USC’s stats vs. Georgia – they had 0 hurries and 2 sacks, and Cox completed 70% of his passes for over 200 yards. Last night, I think the Gamecocks had 4 sacks and 3 hurries. Evidently, that was enough to make it tough for Snead, and it showed with 8/22 (36%). It’s tough for Ole Miss to win with a 36% completion percentage.

USC also had like 10 TFL’s, so the d-line was really getting penetration. I think Ole Miss had more hurries and sacks, but apparently Ole Miss’ secondary is not as good – Garcia completed about 50% of his passes.

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by Glenn Logan on Sep 25, 2009 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Open mouth, insert foot

Bruce Pearl…..wow…..

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by btcoop71 on Sep 25, 2009 1:36 PM EDT reply actions

So Georgia and Carolina are nothing to get worried about?

Truz, aparently you think Georgia is weak. may be but they and South Carolina have played ‘real’ teams, as in BCS schools and some haven’t.
I think No 40 is as good as any corner/linebacker in the conference and seems to be quite a disturbing force against qualitity teams.
Carolina has played three BCS schools so farand at least you measure that.
Ole Miss will probably finish down there around Mississippi State from your estimation.

by ParisGuy on Sep 25, 2009 2:27 PM EDT reply actions

Where did I say ...

… Georgia is weak?

They put up 41 points on a South Carolina defense that has allowed a total of 60 points all season, 41 of them against the Dawgs. How could I think Georgia is weak?

I don’t think Georgia is great, especially on defense, and the fact that their defense has allowed 102 points so far bears that out — I don’t care if they have been playing the Indianapolis Colts.

I don’t know where you conclude that I think Georgia and South Carolina are “nothing to get worried about.” Your conclusion defies logic, and certainly isn’t supported by anything I have said, so I guess I’ll just have to say, “whatever.” :-)

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by Glenn Logan on Sep 25, 2009 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions

Both are very good teams and have shown it

Well, exxxxcuuuse me!
So far these teams have played ‘some body’. Both of them have actually stepped outside the area of non conterence games and have shown they can compete.
Now that Louisville played the Cats close it seems they’ve improved at least 50 percent.
I think the Cats are still no higher than 5th in the Eastern Division and only time will tell where they are in reality.
Personally, I think either the Dawgs or Gamecocks will give anyone in the conference, Florida and Alabama included a good game.
Georgia outscores people. They haven’t seem to fallen too much after losing their quarterback.
Loosen up Truz.

by ParisGuy on Sep 25, 2009 4:00 PM EDT reply actions

5th in SEC-east

I’ll agree with that. But its not too shabby when you realistically have no chance of aspiring for much higher than 4th.

Of course its difficult, its a shortcut... if it was easy it'd just be "the way."

by chirop1 on Sep 25, 2009 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions

Well ...

… I don’t disagree with you at all, but I am not willing to rank UK 5th in the East until they get beat by South Carolina, Georgia or Tennessee. Yes, all those teams have played better teams than UK has so far, but that doesn’t make them better, particularly when all of them have lost games and UK hasn’t.

When Kentucky plays these teams, we will know if I’m right or wrong. I’m not sold on either Georgia or South Carolina for reasons already mentioned. They have both proven that they can be beaten, and even though it’s likely to end today, Kentucky has yet to lose.

Georgia outscores people — barely. 103 points scored and 102 allowed. That’s the smallest margin of victory in Division 1 that is actually positive.

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by Glenn Logan on Sep 26, 2009 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions

May be a surprise in the making

I think the Cats, with a little help could play spoiler in the division. I don’t see them beating Florida, or either Georgia or South Carolina on their home fields. I think South Carolina’s defense is gong to keep them in a lot of games. If Garcia continues to improve they could end up second or third. Depends on Tennessee. We saw they can play defense and I don’t think there is going to be much Monte Kiffin hasn’t been exposed to. At least they are in Lexington. Vanderbilt is going to be the unknown. If they get up for some of the games and can hold the offenses down of the other teams they may surprise some. I don’t see them scoring a lot on any body. Right now Kentucky is an unknown. We’ve beat two teams we should have. The Louisville score was a little cloaer than most thought it would be. Louisville have a better offense than we expected or is the Cats defense a tad over rated. We’ll see, that’s why they play the games.
I think the best shot at a major upset is against Alabama.

by ParisGuy on Sep 25, 2009 7:25 PM EDT reply actions