2007 SEC Football Thread

[Austiger]

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Austiger,

Explain to me how Auburn is going to be "sick" next year because I don't see. You'll probably finish similar to this year IMO.

No QB, and no WRs just like this year. Defense and running game as usual for Auburn. If anything things are looking down for Auburn after the past few 9+ win seasons. And you play WVU OOC next year.

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Look in the ND thread for the game participation stats I posted. The guys we lose were mostly being pushed by their backups at every position. When Groves went down with an injury for example, he had to move to LB when he came back b/c Coleman outperformed him. This was a learning year for many positions for us, and those guys will just be a year better next year.

Offense- 8 starters returning, including all our tailbacks, all our linemen, and all our receivers. We lose FB Carl Stewart (making room for Tate.) We lose TE Cole Bennett (McKenzie and Trott will move right in. Bennett didn't even play last year.) And we lose Cox.

Defense- 8 starters back. We lose two DBs, Brock and Lee, and our NT, Josh Thompson. We also lose backup DB Wilhite and Groves. D-line is the deepest position on the team and we will be even better there. The only concern would be DB, but we have young talent there as well.

ST- Punter and kicker coming back as sophomores and we get Tristan Davis back who missed the whole year with an injury. (He led the SEC in KO returns as a sophomore and was rumored to be pushing for the starting TB spot in preseason.)

Basically, every position gets deeper and more experienced next year except DB, which will be fine IMO, and QB. I'll leave the QB question till next year, but the rest of the team will be nasty. The WVU game will be daunting of course, but our conference road games are Ole Mrs, MSU, Bama and Vandy, compared to this year's Florida, LSU, Arky, UGA.