The CLICHE Bowl

NOT gonna post all of the crazy football clichés that you will hear, read, and see ad nauseum about rivalry games-- specifically THIS one.

BAMA-auburn 2017 Iron Bowl

If THE TIDE gets some injured defenders back, we should be okay. If the defense is as bad as it was against Mississippi State, Kerryon Johnson will embarrass us on national television.
The safe bet is that Coach Saban spent a LOT of time with Jeremy Pruitt and the defensive unit this Thanksgiving Holiday week.

BRENTOONS IRON BOWL PICK:

ALABAMA 35 AUBURN 21

First 2017 BAMA Gameday Comic

Well, this is my first chance to post my SEC picks and BAMA Gameday Comics this season. Here goes:

There should be a lot of close ones today, and many will be toss-ups. My guesses...?

Florida 34
Vandy  35  Both teams scoring, Commodores get the upset.

Georgia     38
Tennessee 17

LSU  21
Troy  20  Maybe another upset...?

MSU   28  Which bulldogs will show up...?
auburn 27  Which tigers will show up...?

Outside the conference, CLEMSON handles Virginia Tech 34-21
Ohio State beats Rutgers 42-17

Back to Reality:

BAMA will pound the identity-challenged Ole Miss squad

THE University of ALABAMA will host the Ole Miss Rebels/BlackBears/soon-to-be-Landsharks in a nationally-televised night game on ESPN. The TIDE's injured defenders have mostly healed and are back with a vengeance. ole miss will score, but BAMA will eventually over-power them.
Jalen ain't playin' -- playin' around, that is..
BAMA's stable of backs will just be poundin'...

My Pick:

ALABAMA 35
Ole Miss       21

GET UP! It's GAMEDAY!

FINALLY! It's here!
BAMA will face off with auburn in the IRON BOWL today at 2:30.
Look for it to be a tight game early on, but THE TIDE will overpower the tigers/plainsmen/war-eagles or whatever and pull away late.

GAMEDAY PREDICTION:

ALABAMA 35
auburn          21

I HATE Corndogs....

BAMA Blanks Bayou Bengals, 10-0. RTR!

LATE GameDay Predictions

2015!

And it only took me A MONTH to start my pre-game predictions and comics!!

THE TIDE started out the season strong, but fumbled and slogged their way to a home loss against an opportunistic Ole Miss. The BlackBear Rebels took advantage of BAMA miscues and an incredibly unbelievable fortuitous bounce to top The TIDE in Tuscaloosa.
 After a disorganized victory over Louisiana-Monroe (featuring NUMEROUS dropped balls by our receivers!), BAMA will try to gain a badly-needed triumph in Stanford Stadium at Georgia. The Bulldogs are just a-rollin' along, with Grayson Lambert setting passing records and the seemingly-unstoppable Nick Chubb churning out yards.
 On what looks to be a sloppy, rain-drenched afternoon, look for BAMA to take one from the Bulldogs in classic, old-school fashion-- with a BIG twist. Kenyan Drake is a speedy, versatile back, just waiting to have a big showing after last year's injury. Derrick Henry is a huge, straight-up freight train who is hard to stop once he builds up a head of steam. The plot thickens with the addition of the highly-touted Bo Scarborough, who will see the first action of his career following a four-game suspension. Scarborough is as big as Henry, only thicker. And he can move.
 The TIDE will methodically play keep-away and eat clock as they slog up and down the field, leaving piles of sick puppies in the wake. (COMIC coming later...!)

PREDICTION: ALABAMA 35, GEORGIA 21

Elsewhere in the SEC:

Ole Miss and Florida look to be a good matchup.

OLE MISS 35, Florida 21

Aggies coming up, Bulldogs caught off-guard.

TEXAS A&M 31, Mississippi State 30

Spurrier's head will explode as Tigers prevail.

MISSOURI 28, South Carolina 21

WHO wants to win this game...?

TENNESSEE 21, Arkansas 20

LSU 49, Eastern Michigan 3

Around the Country:

OSU 45, Indiana 17

Baylor 49, Texas Tech 42

DUKE 31, Boston College 28

CLEMSON 31, Notre Dame 21

SEC Championship: More Tigers

Here we are again!
ALABAMA is in another SEC Championship Game, this time against the over-achieving Missouri Tigers.
Prediction: PAIN.

ALABAMA 35, Mizzou 17

ROLL TIDE!

IRON BOWL 2014

No more "Got a second...?".
That ship has sailed.
An entire year has passed, and 'the Big One' is upon us again. It's time for The IRON BOWL, the annual gridiron tilt between The UNIVERSITY of ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE and those other guys from across the state, the Auburn Tigers. ALABAMA has had a year to relive that last-second miracle, and you can bet they won't let anything like THAT happen again. As usual, here is my "GameDay Comic" and prediction of the outcome.

THE TIDE will be ready, and won't let any trick plays, bad bounces, or lucky breaks keep them from playing in the SEC Championship Game and the first-ever COLLEGE FOOTBALL DIVISION-1 PLAYOFF.

Prediction:

ALABAMA 35 Auburn 14

BIG AL: GATOR Style...!

The UNIVERSITY of ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE overcame some early miscues to come alive and bury the Florida Gators in a nationally-televised (cbs) matchup, 45-21. BIG AL looked so snazzy after he skinned the pesky Gators and made an outfit out of the hide, SECQ Magazine put him on the cover! 

BAMA's BIG AL decked out in 'Gator Skin': Belts, Boots, Vest and Bag

ROLL TIDE! 

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

S.E.C. Championship Gameday Comic & Prediction

ALRIGHTY, then! Here, as promised, is my SEC Championship "Gameday Comic"...!

My prediction for the game:

Georgia's tough, and they play good ball. I just think BAMA's a little better, and a little more experienced.

ALABAMA 35, Georgia 17

ROLL TIDE!

ANOTHER S.E.C. Championship Comic!

Well, since Georgia's players don't think that BAMA's that good....

THIS is what BIG AL does to 'smack-talkers'...!! ROLL TIDE!

SEC CHAMPIONSHIP COMIC!

Sorry I haven't posted in, like, FOREVER, but health issues have me VERY limited! Here, for your enjoyment, is my FIRST comic about the SEC Championship Game between the Georgia Bulldogs and THE UNIVERSITY of ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE.

ROLL TIDE!

SOOEY, PIG..!! TIDE ROLLS INTO FAYETTEVILLE TO SLAUGHTER HAWGS!!

Well, the Arkansas Razorbacks lost last week to an unranked Louisiana-Monroe, dropping out of the Top25 and KILLING BAMA's power rankings. ESPN Gameday was scheduled to broadcast from Fayetteville, but Arkansas ruined their opportunity to be the center of the 'College Football Universe'. Tyler Wilson will mercifully be held out to save him another beating.

Prediction: ALABAMA 35, Arkansas 14

auburn 28, ULM 27.... plainsmen/war-eagles/tigers get lucky. It would be great if they lost, as it would put Louisiana-Monroe 2-0 and in first place in the SEC West. The TIDE needs cow college to win for our strength-o-schedule ratings.

tennessee 31, Florida 24.... I hate orange, but we need the Viles to win for OUR power rankings. I think they just might be a little more explosive than the seemingly plodding gators.

South Carolina 28, UAB 10..... meh... spurrier... who cares anymore.....
LSU 31, Idaho 10...... Mmmmmm..... taters...... Corndogs should handle them easily..
Georgia 45, Florida Atlantic 24..... Bulldogs secondary exposed, but they still win easily
Vanderbilt 28, Presbyterian 10.... meh
I hope Mississippi State can beat Troy, and that Ole Miss can get by Texas, but I'm afraid to make those two picks. I don't know enough about Missouri or Texas A&M yet to predict those.
I just hope they ALL win their out-of-conference match-ups.

ROLL TIDE!

How It Went:

Some advice:

When you are an offensive genius, you get a job in the NFL. When you get a job in the NFL, you lose games.

When you lose games, you take a job at Arkansas. When you live in Arkansas, you get bored.

When you get bored, you go looking for strange. When you go looking for strange, you find strange.

When you find strange, you take it for a ride on your motorcycle.

When you take strange for a ride on your motorcycle, she reaches around and grabs your junk.

When she grabs your junk, you wreck your motorcycle.

When you wreck your motorcycle, you end up at a press conference in a neck brace.

Don't end up at a press conference in a neck brace...switch from cable and upgrade to DirecTV.

Hogs Ditch Petrino

The University of Arkansas fired football coach Bobby Petrino.
Read the article HERE .

This Week's GAME Of The CENTURY

 Alrighty, kids! Armageddon has arrived!
The Mighty Top-Ranked Louisiana State Tigers waltz into town to face THE Second-ranked UNIVERSITY of ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE in a game that is being set up by media pundits and 'talking heads' as one for the ages!
The frenzied build-up will rise to a crescendo this evening as all eyes in the college football world will be on Tuscaloosa's BRYANT-Denny Stadium in a universally-televised (CBS) matchup of SEC West Titans.
 I imagine that immediately after kickoff, it will sound like the opening day of dove hunting season:

BAM! BAM! BAM-BAM! BAM!

  These are two of the hardest-hitting teams in college football, and it'll show-- and be heard. The consensus is that the squads are pretty evenly-matched, but I think the difference will be our defense. The Tigers have been successful against lesser competition, but I think The TIDE will bring a little bit more to the fight.

 Look for quarterback AJ McCarron to have a modest, yet workman-like night, and for Trent Richardson and his gang to eventually plow through the bayou bengals defense late.

Brentoons's Pick: ALABAMA 24, LSU 14

TIDE Swamps, Stomps Gators; Moves To #2

The University of ALABAMA just clobbered the Florida Gators 38-10 down in Gainesville last night in a battle of ranked SEC unbeatens. The Tide started slow & tentative, giving up a long pass play for a spectacular touchdown on the first play from scrimmage, sending the home crowd into a frenzy.
 It was all downhill for the Gators from there, as BAMA pounded, punished and pulverized them in just about every way imaginable. For the third week in a row, the starting quarterback was mercifully pulled in order to minimize injury. In this case, however, he returned when the backup was also knocked out of the game.
 Courtney Upshaw pounded the quarterback, then literally added insult to injury two plays later by taking an interception back for a touchdown. Trent Richardson, as usual, was a beast.

The dominant performance over a previously-unbeaten Florida team leap-frogged The TIDE over the Oklahoma Sooners to the No. 2 spot in the AP Poll.

MMMmmmm......! Tide Devours Hogs!

 Big Al makes his way home with the spoils of the day after the UNIVERSITY of ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE butchered the Arkansas Razorbacks 38-14 yesterday in an SEC showdown in Tuscaloosa.
The Alabama Defense was stifling, and the offense put on a workman-like pounding to serve notice to the rest of the SEC West. Looks like the REAL Championship will be November 5th in Tuscaloosa's Bryant-Denny Stadium.
ROLL TIDE!

New "Ole Miss" Cartoon

After the embarrassing outings by both Georgia and Ole Miss this past weekend, I had to do a "Colonel Rebel" comic for my friend Brent Glover, a Rebels fan.

I think Colonel Rebel is a little late.......