Apparently, putting “Fra-gee-lay” on the box just won’t cut it.

Worse, somebody will have used up all the fix-it tape—ON PURPOSE!!

Look for Myers to have a four to one edge in receptions over Tony. Tony just hasn’t been a factor this year, and I doubt the bowl will be different.

The success of the USC WR’s will depend on one factor: the Iowa front four pass rush. Period.

A few things, StoopsMyAss. First of all, our TE Jared Cook was first-team All-SEC and our WR Kenny McKinley was an honorable mention and would have been first or second team if he hadn’t been injured for several games in the middle of the year. Second of all, I have in no way been claiming that we have better athletes across the board than Iowa. In fact, I’ve given you guys the advantage at RB and QB, which is only your due. While I think the contest between Garcia and Stanzi is a close one, I’m well aware that we don’t have anyone like Greene, and nor have I ever said we do. So quit putting words in my mouth; I have given your team credit from the start. The problem for you, apparently, is that the credit I’m giving you doesn’t involve calling off the game. Newsflash: you’re probably a little better than us, but you’re an eight-win team that’s not in the Top 25. You’re not a powerhouse. That means you’re just like us, which is why we’re playing each other in the Outback Bowl. I know you like to spin your season and say you could have gone undefeated, but we could do the same thing with our season and say that we could have gone 10-2, as three of our losses could have gone either way. Nothing would change the Florida and Clemson games, but Florida would probably beat the Big 10 all-conference team. Clemson I have no answer for, but all teams have a bad game from time to time. This is all to say that South Carolina and Iowa are fairly evenly matched teams. Iowa is a marginal 3.5 point favorite in Vegas, which is about right, because you guys probably are a bit better than us. But there’s a reason Vegas doesn’t have you by more than that.

As far as receivers go, we’re better than you at receiver. I don’t know if it will matter because Garcia has to get the receivers the ball, but we have a lot of talent at this position.

Florida is not in a class all thier own. They lost at home (AT HOME!) to a Miss. team that is about as good as Iowa—very similar statistically and so forth. USC, the real USC in California, would shut them down in my opinion, pretty easily. Alabama is not a good yard stick, vastly overrated. The reason Nick Saban won coach of the year is that no one was thinking Alabama was going to amount to much, not a lot a great players. They surprised, overachieved and, voila, coach of the year.

Winning against teams by big margins is not everything…as we learned in the Vince Young Rose Bowl. I know all you SEC kool-aid drinkers are in awe of Florida, and the reason for that is simple, they crushed you so you need to rationalize that by saying they are A-W-E-S-O-M-E. Well, we’ll see. They should kill Oklahoma because it is a perfect matchup for them. And, it is about matchups. I believe Florida would have trouble with Penn State who has a very good defense (top 5 nationally).

Bottom line, bias is bias. You have it. You know it. That is why you get so upset that you get accused of it. The nice thing about you though (and kudos to you for this) is that you barely try to hide it. All your posts assume two unassailable truths: the SEC is better than the Big Ten and that is because the SEC has speed (often articulated as “better athletes”). Although, the NFL’s defensive player of the year last year played at, ta da, Iowa, and the NFL, point of fact #2, does not have a single SEC bred player in the top 10 in rushing or pass receiving yardage (a reliable indicator of speed and athleticism).

Yep, we are tired of the speed argument because it’s bogus. It’s as bogus as the BIG ten claiming to have the best interior linemen because we are farm raised, cornfed, Nordic. We are so over the argument for Florida’s Holy domination due to its domination of teams like yours, which is as you know all too well, is a none too subtle backhanded praise of yourself of course. Florida is simply dominating other SEC teams (MIami, Fl. being thier only non-conference win of significance) suggesting a lopsided conference in terms of quality.

Yes, you got SEC bias sir, it bleeds profusely out of every post you make. Of course you will give Iowa some credit, but don’t sprain your elbow patting yourself on the back for crediting the winner of every major running back award in the nation as a better running bacck than yours. Please. That is not evidence of any balance or detachment.

Look, you run this blog so no one would expect anything else from you.

Keep up the good work, Mr. SEC. See you in Tampa.

An SEC guy claiming unfair media coverage. Boo hoo….poor SEC. Let’s be realistic. The Big Ten decided to create its own TV network and it is now, and will continue to, kill them in national favorable press coverage. ESPN talks ad nausem iabout the teams they are broadcasting, and that leads to praise and awe. CBS is in the bag for the SEC. You can’t even get the Big Ten Network on the vast majority of cable systems in the northeast., or even outside of freaking Chicago!

It is what it is…a business. But, to not be media literate enough to see things clearly, shameful for someone who claims to know NCAA football.