Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

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… +4 turnover margin…. Wake me when we get to Atlanta.

2. Florida
The real question is whether or not the Pope is the only one who’s actually allowed to flag the Lamb of God for excessive celebration. I’m sure JP2 would have tossed one by now.

3. South Carolina
An ugly home win over a weak UK team makes me wonder if Spurrier and the Cocks are about to hit the wall.

4. LSU
When your offense is reduced to nothing and you wrack up penalties, it doesn’t matter if you hold the Gators to 13.

5. Arkansas
The SEC is full of mystery teams, but this may be the hardest of the bunch to figure out. If that Auburn offense is for real, then the Hogs seem to have shored up their D just enough to win.

6. Auburn
Chizik suffered a bad Iowa State flashback on Saturday.

7. Georgia
If you allow Jonathan Crompton to do that to your defense, don’t you have to fire somebody?

8. Tennessee
We’ve figured out the secret to getting the best out of Crompton: Start all Neyland games at 12:30 Eastern. (Playing opponents without a defense helps, too.)

9. Kentucky
Kentucky can only hope this means Randall Cobb will be at QB. They might actually make a run at a bowl game if that’s the case.

10. Ole Miss
Jevan Snead has reaffirmed his status as the SEC’s top turnover machine… he’s the bizarro Eric Berry.

11. Mississippi State
On the bright side, losing to Houston wasn’t nearly the worst out-of-conference loss this week.

12. Vanderbilt
Cut poor Vandy some slack — they have to go up each game against jock schools that can hand-pick any recruits they want. By the way, who did they lose to this week?