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Tomorrow nights game is very important for USM. A loss is not devastating but if they can win, I think fan support will get better and it will serve as validation for Will Hall (who I think is an excellent coach) that his rebuild is going well. Should be a great atmosphere at the Rock and they may have their biggest crowd since the State game in 2015. I like USM to win a hard fought game, with a low score, 20-16. Ole Miss wins at A&M. Even with OM’s defense weakened, the Offense will score enough to beat A&M who has struggled mightily on offense. 31-20. Tennessee is hosting Kentucky. On paper the Vols should roll but I think they are going to have a WTF game and blow it. Yep, I am calling it. UK pulls the upset. Tennessee is due for a bad game and this is it and it will bite them in the a**. UK 28, UT 27. Arkansas wins @ Auburn. I kind of agree with 83, that Arkansas could finish strong. Arkansas 38, Auburn 30 in a game not as close as the final score will indicate. Florida plays a competitive game against Georgia but Georgia pulls out the win 38-28. Florida covers the spread. Ohio State wins over Pennsylvania State University. OSU 38, PSU 21. Jackson State beats whoever they play and I hope Game Day goes well for them. I am glad for them. Deon has done a good job there.

I don’t think you look at Auburn as a make the season game. That puts too much pressure on it. It is one more opportunity to improve and win a game. The open date is a huge help. Lot of injuries and banged up guys . So that should help coming into that game to get some players back. Plus the team can take a collective breath. This last stretch of four games was tough. They can reset and be ready to go down the stretch. Can still be a very successful season.

A&M just goes to show you that coaching matters. Though I will give them credit for the way they played the last 15 seconds last night. Kicked FG and then recovered on side kick, had two attempts in the end zone to win it. But other wise, you would think they would be better than this in his 5th season. And the way this team is sinking, players may start bailing out.

No rhyme or reason on how some of these games are played week to week. Defense actually played respectable tonight. I will get laughed at for this but that last Touchdown was huge. Team needed to get that monkey off their back. A much needed week off and then four games to finish out the season. One sure win. One probable win. One toss up One probable loss How it all shakes out is anybody’s guess.

Unfortunately you are correct

Very similar to the State game INT = Fumbled Punt

Yep Bama/Clemson Refs made sure that Cuse was not going to win this game. And I am sure that tonight the officiating will be completely pro Bama.

If WC wins Friday, then it is a moot point for Meridian. WC plays at Petal. Most likely they win that game though Petal played a solid game against Meridian last night. As it stands, Meridian’s one point loss to OG and three point loss to NWR are going to be the difference between being in the playoffs and not. Gotta be able to win close games. We have failed to do so to this point.

Good win for OG. 3-6A kind of a muddled mess now. Wildcats still alive after tonight if only by a thread.

Petal 17 Meridian 24 Final

Petal 17 Meridian 24 4th quarter

Meridian 24 Petal 10 4th Quarter

Bama beats State but it is not a massacre. Ole Miss beats LSU. Yes I wrote that. While LSU is playing better, OM is playing better Cuse with an epic upset over Clemson. Shrader & Company end Clemson’s home winning streak., A&M over USC Okie State over Texas Oregon > ucla KSTATE ends TCU’s fairy ride. They are a good team but it ends this weekend.

Another disappointing thing to me is this is a veteran team that won on the road @ A&M and Auburn and Vandy last year but has not handled either SEC road environment well at all this year. Especially this past Saturday night. The number of pre-snap offensive penalties was inexcusable. If you play your best and get beat that is fine but neither LSU nor KY did we play our best football. Again credit to both them as well. Kentucky smacked us in the mouth and we just whimpered.

Reb, I am not sure Bama runs the table this year. They have had some close calls already this year and could have easily lost three games. What they have done is incredible but like UCONN basketball a few years back eventually it ends. Bama wins comfortably over State but LSU and/or Ole Miss are both very capable of beating them.

This was one of those games where it felt like we were playing 11 on 14 all night long. Kentucky had a great scheme and executed it to perfection. Save the one TD drive in the third quarter, the offense did zero all night long. Defensively, was terrible other than the pick 6, we did not stop them after the first three drives. Penalties were atrocious. I don’t get all the pre snap motion penalties. No excuse for those. Several of those helped stop potentially good drives.

UK played aggressive We seemed to play tap dance all night Disappointing all the way around. Credit to Kentucky. They just flat beat us at the LOS.

We need a stop on defense badly.

I know I was just yanking your chain. You should beat both of those teams comfortably.

If you keep losing players to injuries, you are liable to be SE Lauderdale’s only victory of the season and thus eliminate Enterprise from the playoffs completely. And you said it in your last sentence about being careful saying that one team can’t beat another team.

That best 3A defense got torched for 27 points by Union last week.

For decades, the students in immediate area of Clarkdale (in Clarke County) attended Clarkdale as the two districts had worked out a deal to allow it to happen. Quite a few residential developments happened in the area. However about 30+ years ago, Clarke county decided they were losing too much tax revenue by those homes paying school ad valorem taxes to Lauderdale county. I think it eventually went to court and after it was settled all those students that lived a stones throw from Clarkdale had to go to Enterprise which is about 10 miles away (which is still not too far away). But for people who bought a home right there, it was a difficult pill to swallow. Especially if they worked in Meridian. The school has been there since the 1920’s. Not sure why they built it on the county line but at the time, the population there was sparse so it probably made sense then.

As 83 noted, 2018 and 2020 our trips to LEX were disastrous. 2016 we lost on a last second 50+ yard FG. This year, I hope will be different. I believe we will handle the atmosphere better. We actually did fine in BR for three quarters. But we failed to cash in on our opportunities and eventually that is going to bite especially on the road against a quality team. Offensively we need to score consistently even if we have to take a FG here and there. I am glad Leach has confidence in our ability to make 4th down conversions but I wish he would be more judicious in going for it. Defensively, if we can limit the big plays I think we will be okay. Special teams are going to be important. Other than XP/FG’s we have been good there in other facets. As Al Davis used to say “ just win baby” I don’t care how, just would like to get out there with a win and no injuries. Ole Miss takes out six years of frustration and wallops Auburn big. Bama @ Tennessee. This should finally be a good game again. Selfishly I hope it goes to like 4-5 overtimes. I am thinking Young does not play. If that is the case, Tennessee wins. But if he does play, Bama wins. A part of me even thinks if he does play, Bama may blow Tennessee out. No reason other than a hunch. If KJ plays Arky beats BYU. Florida eeks out a win over LSU. TCU over Okie State. Shrader for the win for Cuse over NCSTATE. Utah scrambles the PAC 8 or 10 or 12 or 14 or whatever they call it over USCW.

We went to see Jay Leno Friday Night so I only saw the score after the game was over. Certainly disappointing to let this game slip away. Unfortunately, as you all have noted we have not learned how to win close games. Still not giving up on our guys and I hope we can find a way to make the playoffs this year.

Also, this weekend reconfirms that it hard to predict games based on past performances. Tennessee beat LSU who beat State who beat A&M who beat Arkansas who beat Cincinnati who beat Indiana who beat Illinois who beat Wyoming who beat Air Force who beat Navy who beat East Carolina who beat Old Dominion who beat Virginia Tech who beat Boston College who beat Louisville who beat UCF who beat Georgia Tech who beat Pitt who has not beat anyone of consequence. But you guys get the idea. Just a lot of unpredictability this year in CFB.