Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

I broke my rule about trying to post my own reactions before influencing my thoughts with VandySports. But I clarified on the drive home what I wanted to say, and it’s really only one thing.
If the postgame tailgate is any indication (and from VS, it probably is), our fans are extremely concerned right [...]

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Better get these on record. I had a monster week last week, like 6-1, but my accounting is leaving a lot to be desired.
Miss State +14. State’s bad but not too bad, and both teams are somewhat defensively oriented. With an O/U of 41, two TDs is a huge line. [...]

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There’s no reason not to add my voice to the chorus exalting Jim Leavitt for the amazing job he’s done at South Florida. As you’ve no doubt heard last night made this the third straight year they’ve beaten a Top 10 team. How many other programs can say that? [...]

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33rd minute
USA 0 - 2 Brasil
Our women are in big trouble, but still an hour to play. I’ll have to leave for work during that time.

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Nick Gerogosian of Vandelay isn’t the only MAC observer to think EMU’s pretty decent, at least relative to the rest of the MAC. Brian Golden of Mac Report Online has them seventh this week.
Look, I’m not going to blow smoke and tell you I expect VU to struggle with Eastern. We [...]

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USA beat Jolly Old England 3-0.  I keep trying to look over the England roster to find someone to crush on, sexist pig and non-appreciater of women’s sport that I am.  Maybe Kelly Smith since she’s apparently one of the better forwards in the international game now.  Oh well, [...]

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I watched bits and pieces of this game, and then listened to the OM broadcast on XM.  It’s always dangerous to judge too much by hometown broadcasters — heck, maybe the refs didn’t even exactly give the Arkansas game to Bama last week, I’ll never know for sure — but it certainly sounded [...]

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Tennessee -20 - Ark State.  Yeah, I know the Vols have looked awful and ASU scared Texas, but I think UTK focuses and gets the job done.  Or maybe I can go 0-3 picking them.

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High time I start keeping track of these!

Week

1
Memphis, Georgia, K-State, Troy
Tennessee, SC
4-2

2
I forgot to make picks

3
Miss State, AU-MS under
Tennessee, Louisville, MTSU
2-3-1

Now to this week, briefly.

OM +24 - Florida.  OM is terrible, of course, but a combination of them regrouping after the VU game and UF letting down just a tad after steamrolling [...]

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Heard on the radio yesterday that Steele put out some sort of intra-season SEC projections through Week 3. He’s made a few adjustments — SC down to 3-5 is the biggest, Kentucky probably up a bit. But it’s bad news for us, with our projected SEC record 1-7.
Of course that doesn’t [...]

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