SEC Packets: Week Nine Results

Results	OTS Picked	Nico Picked	Todd Picked
Mississippi State 31 Kentucky 14	Kentucky	Kentucky	Kentucky
Vanderbilt 24 Miami (OH) 13	Vandy	Vandy	Vandy
Arkansas 58 Florida International 10	Arkansas	Arkansas	Arkansas
Georgia 42 Florida 30	Florida	Florida	Florida
Auburn 17 Ole Miss 3	West Virginia	West Virginia	West Virginia
Tennessee 27 South Carolina 24	South Carolina	South Carolina	South Carolina
West Virginia 31 Rutgers 3	West Virginia	West Virginia	Rutgers
Oregon 24 Southern Cal 17	Oregon	Oregon	Oregon
Connecticut 22 South Florida 15	USF	USF	USF
Texas 28 Nebraska 25	Texas	Texas	Texas
Kansas 19 Texas A&M 11	Kansas	Kansas	Kansas
Arizona State 31 Cal 20	Arizona State	Arizona State	Arizona State
Ohio State 37 Penn State 17	tOSU	tOSU	tOSU

Another wacky weekend of football has the SEC all kinds of screwed up right now:

Georgia took the lead in the East with an unexpected win over Florida, and Tennessee is right back in the thick of it after an unexpected win over Spurrier. Kentucky proved once again that it couldn't handle success, getting Croomed in Lexington, and Vandy inches closer and closer to bowl eligibility. In the West, Auburn looks lost for three and a half quarters again before sealing the deal in the waning seconds, while State is making me look like a genius for saying they'd be bowl eligible this year by upsetting Kentucky and getting to five wins. There could very easily be eleven bowl eligible teams in the SEC this year, and you have to wonder who's going to get the short end of the stick.

Contrarian Contrition

Yeah, so Rutgers screwed me, and my choosing karma as the deciding factor in the USF/UConn game wasn't the brightest idea. Also, I called for State to beat Kentucky in the preseason, and probably should have stuck with that.

The Curse of Sandra Bernhard

It seems like just about every game I name the Sandra Bernhard Game of the Week turns out to be ugly, but for completely different reasons than I expected. Looking back:

Week	Game	Expected Result	Final Score
Week Four	Florida at Ole Miss	Florida slaughters the Rebels	Florida 30, Ole Miss 24 The Rebels hang with the Gators the entire game, and Tebow begins his slow but certain journey into perpetually injured.
Week Five	LSU at Tulane	LSU has the third string in by the second quarter	LSU 34, Tulane 9 LSU is completely dominated for an entire half, limping to the locker room with a 10-9 lead.
Week Six	UGA at Tennessee	Tennessee's defense is so poor that the Dawgs run away with it early.	Tennessee 35, UGA 14 Georgia manages only two TDs and is manhandled all day by the Vols.
Week Seven	Mississippi State vs Tennessee	This one was just testing the power of her hideous visage in the hopes Fulmer would be croomed.	Tennessee 33, State 21 Didn't work so well this week. Apparently the curse has to be unintentional.
Week Eight	Arkansas at Ole Miss	I figured on a lot of sloppy play from two floundering teams unable to play with any consistency from week to week.	Arkansas 44, Ole Miss 8 Ole Miss was so busy trying to find evidence that Shay Hodges was forced out of bounds they forgot to review game tape of Arkansas and were slaughtered.

Which brings us to week nine. I fully expected the 'Cats to come out ready to put up some points against Mississippi State after the letdown against Florida, but instead they gave the game away with bad decisions and turnovers, while Woodson looked terrible. UK's defense isn't great, but giving up 31 to the Bulldogs is unthinkable. So yeah, her hideous visage is clearly enough to alter reality and force a good team to turn to stone.

The resemblance is uncanny.