The Goat Pen

AlabamAlum wrote:Dear lord, even with permission, I would hope we never, ever do something as retarded as throwing toilet paper in a tree to celebrate a win.

Professor Tiger wrote:I'm ready to make general observations/predictions about our upcoming season:

Likely wins: Utah State, Florida Atlantic, Ole Miss, Samford.

Likely losses:

Miss. State: This game is early in the season and before our host of new starters get their bearings.

USCe: The Evil Genius will not be denied this time. Our best hope is to catch Garcia during one of his frequent suspensions/drinking binges, but that's not much of a hope.

Arkansas: The Hogs are becoming a perennial offensive powerhouse, and seem to be growing a defense as well. Too much for us and our rebuilding defense.

LSU: We'll suffer mild blowout at the hands of the Mad Hatter. Our only hope is that the Yahoo 10 story is about LSU, and they plunge into disarray. But that's not much of a hope.

Alabama: The Saban will have his dish of revenge served cold after last year's embarrassing second half meltdown. This will resemble the 2008 Iron Bowl.

Toss-ups:

Clemson: Never underestimate Clemson's propensity to fold. But the law of averages says Clemson will beat us sometime. Might as well be this time at their place.

Florida: They are in transition between coaches and will be more beatable than usual (sorta like Meyer's first year). And we play them at home.

Georgia: The Dawgs want to avenge Fairley's riverdance on Murray last year. They have enough talent to win convincingly. But in our favor, Mark Richt is still masterminding the Dawgs long, slow slide into mediocrity. And we are playing at Jordan Hare East.

Summary: we win the 3 tossups and go 7-5. That's being optimistic.

Bonfired wrote:Saw this one coming a mile away...didn't even waste any energy getting my hopes up.

Season went about like I figured...I thought we might beat Clemson and definitely lose to South Carolina. Those were a split in the opposite direction. Anybody (outside of the Gamecocks) that was worth a crap kicked our ass badly this year. South Carolina has got to be wondering how in the hell they lost to us at home.

Maybe we'll get Music City...I'm hearing Peach, erm, Chick-Fil-A, in other places. I just hope we get a good draw...we're 7-1 in our last 8 bowl games.