OOOHHHH SHINY HELMETS

by Orson on Apr 8, 2009 11:10 AM EDT

Get your shiny SEC helmet schedule here. It's handy for getting a good froth on, and a nice way to visualize the SEC schedule both in terms of its nastiness in-conference, and all those unrecognizable strange helmets out-of-conference indicating a rich marbling of easy 1-AA fat throughout the slate.

Why just in week one: Alabama and Virginia Tech have their Skoal-off in the Georgia Dome again, meaning tasty free chicken sandwiches for your correspondent, and perhaps a misleading win for Virginia Tech early. This will prime the Hokie bandwagon for a hefty pile-on until everyone remembers Brian Stinespring can't call plays, Tyrod Taylor can't pass, and that Alabama will improve three thousand times from game one to game six after breaking in a new qb, and will likely look at their worst in game one.

Also see: NC State/South Carolina, where one team may actually play a competent quarterback in this game this year (Russell Wilson,) and the other will have Steven Garcia, who's just gonna wing it, man; LSU at Washington, which will be both ugly and weird, and Georgia at Oklahoma State, where Mark Richt's biggest challenge will be hiring goons to fend off T. Boone's army of strength-sapping turbohookers piped in from Dallas to distract the Bulldogs.

Last time, this not well go so for State Oklahoma:

This will be Joe Cox's first start, and the second part of a home-and-home that started with the Cowboys' disastrous 35-14 '07 loss in Athens. Oklahoma State entered that game with high expectations, and left to go on to get annihilated by Troy in a thoroughly disappointing campaign. Now, two years later, people as knowledgeable as Bruce Feldman have them as a dark horse national title contender. If history was a farce the first time instead of the second, what will it be this time? Meta-comedy? Youtube clip set to Yakety Sax? LOLfutball in motion?

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Talk of a nat’l championship for Okie State seems a little overdone, but let them go with it, it did the Bulldogs a lot of good last year.

I think in the SEC that scheduling cupcakes is probably the better approach to the OOC games. If you run the table, which would include the SEC champeeeenship, no one’s going to look back and take away style points for you middling win over Troy.

by ohiodawg on Apr 8, 2009 11:39 AM EDT reply actions

ohiodawg -

Didn’t work out so well for Auburn back in ’03, though.

by JD on Apr 8, 2009 12:09 PM EDT reply actions

Uh, I mean ’04.

by JD on Apr 8, 2009 12:09 PM EDT reply actions

To quote a rabid Dawg fan (who didn’t correct himself, by the way) “Mark Richt likes Cox.”

Who am I to argue with DawgNation?

by stevechas on Apr 8, 2009 12:25 PM EDT reply actions

The helmet schedule is wrong. MSU plays Ga Tech in October not September.

by George on Apr 8, 2009 12:54 PM EDT reply actions

Why even bother listing the out-of-conference games? Everyone knows the only teams capable of beating SEC teams are other SEC teams.

by PW on Apr 8, 2009 1:25 PM EDT reply actions

zero big ten teams, 2 pac ten teams. Shame on all of ’em. Forget a playoff-I would just be satisfied with watchable OOC games in September.

by Expat Ohioan on Apr 8, 2009 2:13 PM EDT reply actions

When Michigan and tOSU and Notre Dame stop turning down home and home requests with the SEC Big-Dogs, then you’ll see better games.

by NewAZTiger on Apr 8, 2009 3:12 PM EDT reply actions

I said shame on all of ’em, including the big ten and pac ten. And ND plays exactly as many Big 10, Pac 10, and ACC games-eight-as the entire SEC. But really…NO ONE from either conference will come play you? Come on. Teams from those conferences at least schedule one good game against each other.

by Expat Ohioan on Apr 8, 2009 3:42 PM EDT reply actions

Well, this USC vs tOSU should be interesting to say the least. tOSU has a dual threat QB, and USC has a plug and play QB. Could this year be the rebuilding year for USC we have waited on for the past 6 years? With the exception of Florida, maybe LSU, the SEC is gonna be down like the stock market. Alabama will be a 3rd tier offensive team this year.
Pretty stout defense built for conventional offenses, hopefully we get some shutdown corners who can cover one on one, make open field tackles, and grab some pick 6’s to help the offense and likes to run track when faced with a hurry up spread team. Colored me skeptical on the O-Line opening up holes and giving McElroy time to throw. Alabama 6————-VT 3. This year is Bama’s rebuilding year, next year should be some kind of special, and hopefully more specialer than the “special year” the 2008 Georgia Bulldogs were supposed to have.

by Mr. Pelican Patns on Apr 8, 2009 4:01 PM EDT reply actions

I suppose Bama fans truly believe that skedding VaTech somehow excuses the FIU-NorthTX-TennChat “gauntlet” that comprises the remainder of their OOC schedule…but they would be wrong. Betty Crocker is jealous of those cupcakes.

by Double Dawg Dare Ya on Apr 8, 2009 4:43 PM EDT reply actions