MSU GAMEDAY COMIC

BAMA-Mississippi State 2014

OKAY, then! It's not very often that there's a TOP-5 matchup in which The TIDE isn't the higher ranked team. It DOES happen, however. It's just unusual that it's MISSISSIPPI STATE that is The #1 Team.
Let's just let that sink in a minute, shall we...?

The Mississippi State Bulldogs, ALABAMA'S closest neighbor in the SEC is sitting atop the national college football rankings. The undefeated State is playing solid, mistake-free football and winning consistently. Although that IS a bit unusual, it's actually a GOOD thing for The TIDE. You see, it will bode better for ALABAMA the more highly-ranked teams we defeat. Not to take anything away from MSU, but BAMA has been on the biggest of big stages before. Numerous times. (The only thing that scares me is that Corso picked The TIDE to win, but I think we can overcome that ugly mojo...!)

I believe Coach Saban will have the men pumped, primed and ready to assume their rightful place in the top spot. If they can win this one, get by the cowpies/plainsmen/war-eagles/tigers or whatever and win the SEC Championship Game, their chances look pretty good.

GAMEDAY PREDICTION:

ALABAMA 31, MSU 20

SEC Network Debuts

Well, they've talked about it for years.

 Today's the 'big day', the day that ESPN has hyped since its conception. The money machine that is The Southeastern Conference now has its own cable network, like the Big10 and the PAC10 before it.

 Modus Operandi: Get SEC fans used to watching, then move it to another cable channel package and charge more. Ho-hum. Channel 727 on Comcast Digital in Mobile.
ROLL TIDE ANYWAY!

MUCH Craziness!

With the level that THe UNIVERSITY of ALABAMA has been playing as of late, it's starting to look like EVERYbody wants to get in on the act...
This is starting to get a little out of hand...

NFL Chiefs fans want in on the action

Seattle Silliness

The BARN Is BURNING: Fanning the Flames over on The Plains...

I was forwarded this by a friend. It appears that an unfortunate situation is really brewing over in West Georgia. Don't know how much is true, but I'll post it anyway--- just in case!

Someone forwarded me a story out of Montgomery that, if true, really means Auburn and Newton are dirty. Here it is : McGregor and 10 others are scheduled for arraignment Friday morning in federal court in Montgomery on charges accusing them of buying & selling votes on pro-gambling legislation.Bigger picture here is that the Feds have been investigating Milton McGregor (A major Auburn Booster and the owner of VictoryLand, which is located just outside of Montgomery) for quite some time. The Feds investigating efforts to pass gambling legislation in Alabama and money laundering schemes involving McGregor and other prominent Alabama politicians and Auburn boosters.The Feds have tape from wire taps made on McGregor & other prominent Auburn boosters from their investigation. The Newton's were just shopping their talents to the wrong people at the wrong time, thus there is hard evidence available that incriminates everyone involved. It's only a matter of time that all of this information becomes public.FBI found out about Cam before the NCAA did while wiretapping Milton McGregor and others related to the casino/bingo indictments. They uncovered conversations with McGregor, Auburn & Cam's uncle in Michigan. McGregor paid $250K to the uncle through a PAC and other hidden entities and the uncle funneled the money to Cecil.The FBI gave this information to the NCAA sometime after the indictments were handed down. They had to sit on the information for 6 months until the grand jury indicted the men and women in the gambling deal. All of the wiretap information was sealed, hence the delay in investigating. The NCAA had to go to Starkville to see if Cecil had solicited money from them as well. That is why State is involved. NCAA basically connecting all of the dots. Miss St may be cleared because they told Cecil no. He then went to Auburn. The offer was on the table from McGregor but Cam wanted to play at Miss St and not Auburn. When Miss St declined to pay him, he went to where the money was... hence the comment, "The money was too much." The FBI met with the Miss St coaches, John Bond and Bill Bell yesterday to get their official statements.

NEW Heisman Trophy?

HERE's my idea for this year's "HEISMAN TROPHY" if, in fact, Cam Newton DOES actually win it. Regardless of what happens, there is NO doubt that he IS the BEST PLAYER IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL. (Some would say 'The Best Money Can Buy', but that's a totally different post!)

My apologies to Mississippi State, whose reference I actually forgot to include. Thank you, Bulldogs, for your contributions.

Today's Picks

Okay, 'The Hat' Les Miles and Mike King's LSU Tigers brought The TIDE's 'Repeat' hopes to a crawling halt last week, but the season's not over YET!

ALABAMA hosts an emotional Mississippi State squad in a night game, and it should be interesting.

The Bulldogs are motivated to win one and have dedicated this game to Nick Bell, a deceased teammate who succumbed last week to cancer. Dan Mullen has put together a solid squad over in Starkville, and will coach his heart out.

No matter.

The TIDE looked flat and lost a game last week- on national tv- that they should have won.

ALABAMA 35, MSU 14

Q: Why does Scam Newton wear #2...?

A: BECAUSE 200,000 WON'T FIT ON HIS JERSEY!! HAHAHA!

Seriously, this is an unfortunate turn of events. I wanted the tigers/plainsmen/war-eagles or whatever to be undefeated, #1-ranked and confident going into The Iron Bowl, so that a nice humiliating defeat at the hands of The TIDE would be even more soul-crushing.

I will just have to make the best of this distracting bad press, negative publicity, Heisman-killing revelations and dis-array this whole 'Highest-Bidder-Gets-Cam' debacle has become to the 'Barn. Georgia has been playing pretty good ball as of late, but if Scam Newton plays, it won't matter.

WITH Cam: auburn 42, Georgia 35

W/O Cam: Georgia 35, the barn 21

Arkansas 42, UTEP 24
Kentucky 28, Vandy 17 Vandy leads 3-0 as I type this...!
Ole Miss 31, Tennessee 28 The Vols lead 14-0 as I type this....!
Florida 28, South Carolina 21 Gators rising, Cocks spiraling.....Winner wins East!


TCU 42, SDSU 10
Stanford 31, ASU 24
Nebraska 27, Kansas 20
Penn State 24, Ohio St. 21 I know.... I'm just rootin' for Joe Pa, though...!
Oklahoma St. 35, Texas 14 Mack Brown's having some problems....
Utah 49, Notre Dame 20