Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

Tonight I’m going to be appearing on the Team Speed Kills Now podcast a little after 9 ET/8 CT. Check out Team Speed Kills to listen. I’ll be talking about the GT game.
Here’s this week’s ballot courtesy of NYDore:
1. Alabama
Can we all take a moment to thanks Terrence Cody. If he doesn’t [...]

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Apologies for my sloth in not getting this up in a more timely fashion.

As always, click the image for details.
And thanks again to NYDore for composing our ballot this week:
1. Alabama
Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Maximus knows that style points aren’t needed when you win convincingly.
2. Florida
The real question [...]

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I’m not good at obsessing over week-to-week details, especially when the team’s not really competing for any postseason honors. I was going to direct you to VSL, but I see that Bobby only made it through the first quarter in detailed fashion and Stan has turned his attention to the Carolina game. [...]

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NYDore and I collaborated on these. Mostly his work, with a couple of additions from me. I got these in late so I’m not sure if they’ll be tallied in the official results. - PhilipVU94.
1. Alabama
Yawn. SEC West opponent… no third down conversions allowed… 200 yards rushing against 72 allowed… [...]

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It occurs to me that I’ve spent several months since December getting in mild disputes with half the population of VandySports.com for believing that dumb luck played a significant role in Vanderbilt’s 2008 football season. Now I’m getting in mild disputes with the other half for believing that the coaching staff isn’t a [...]

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Just a repost of something I wrote up on VS in response to a poster claiming that last year’s loss to Duke was really as bad as our latest screw-up.
Duke finished 57th in the 2008 Sagarins, 18 spots behind Vanderbilt. The Devils finished 4-8 but were probably somewhat unlucky given what the scoring [...]

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I really wish I didn’t care about this sport. I just can’t imagine how much bitterer this season would be if we’d screwed it up at Kentucky last year and finished 5-7. Good grief.

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Apologies as always for my lack of motivation to write content — hoops season is almost upon us! — but thanks again to NYDore for writing the Power Poll ballot this week.
Here are the results; click through for details:

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Thanks to NYDore for filling out the SEC Power Poll ballot for STS this week — PhilipVU94

Alabama - Fans may miss his Bama Bangs, but Greg McElroy has ensured
that they don’t miss John Parker Wilson’s play. Bama rolled despite subbing
in the Band’s second chair squad for the 4th quarter.
Florida - Having an off week [...]

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Sorry we didn’t post a ballot. There was some lack of timely communication on my part in trying to involve some of the co-authors in this process.
Here’s the results, with us in 12th not surprisingly:

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