If Will gets hurt in the first q it won't matter. We will get dusted.
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No they didn't. First, We played uga with 43 scholarship players and OM with slightly more. Other teams (OM) cancelled their games in that scenario. Second, Playing 10 straight sec games wears on you when have no depth. Playing 10 straight is a lot different for State than it is for bama.
Oh, and cross went higher than any player that ever played under mullen
That doesn't really change the fact that Dan's first team had a whole lot of NFL talent -some from Croom, some from Dan holding together that first class.
Looking at that roster you had 6-7 NFL guys who made rosters (Dixon, Boyd, Mitchell, etc), but you also had arguably 3-4 HOF guys in KJ Wright, Kyle Love, Cox, and McPhee.
It may turn out that the '20 team has 5-6 NFL roster guys - but Cross, Forbes, and Emerson are really the only guys I think will start, and who knows if they will have careers like KJ, Love, Cox or McPhee
Vandy doesn't count as a pure SEC game. Haha. Half of our G5 OOC opponents are better than that team. And what, only 4 of our opponents were over .500, I think. They had players out as well when we played some of those games. If was a harder than normal schedule, it wasn't by much really.
In a normal year yeah but in 2020, not much. We played 10 games but only 9 real games, Vandy was 0-9, horrid team that lost to East Tenn St in 2021. Memphis is a better team than them. Don't forget we didn't play every team at their full strength either. Players opting out, other teams had Covid issues. We lost to 3-7 Ark, they were not a good team. If it was harder playing those 10 games than our normal 12, it's not by much if at all for the 2020 season. In normal years it's no question it would be a tougher year.
At year 3 Mike and Dan are both right at 40% sec record wise.
I do miss running the damn ball with Dan though. However I dont miss trotting out CUSA talent level receivers. If Dan could have gotten some higher end receivers we could have been so much more competitive against the elite defenses.
Well, Billy Gonzales telling the WR recruits the first thing they need to know is how to block didn't really go over too well with most of them. We have better WRs than Dan ever had outside of probably Bear and Fred Ross. We just have a QB that can't get them the ball.
If he wins this week, he'd actually be 1 game better, but...
Losses by years (ranks are bcs, last playoff, and current ap)...
2009: #1 UF, #2 bama, #9 lsu , NR ark and auburn
2010: #4 auburn, #6 lsu, #8 bama, #23 ark
2011: #1 lsu, #2 bama, #9 ark, #20 auburn, #14 SC, NR Georgia
2020*: #1 bama, #5 aTm, NR ark, NR KY, NR OM, NR Kentucky
2021: #1 bama, #8 OM, NR ark, NR lsu
2022: #1 Georgia, #6 lsu, #8 bama, NR Kentucky
*since we excluded Georgia for this comparison, I removed #8 Georgia
Dan lost 3 sec games to unranked opponents in 1st 3 years. Leach has lost to 7 so far
You double counted 2020 Kentucky