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Bru, I am so glad you aced your non SEC picks! The SEC plus the next best three!!! I like the ring of that! You can call your blog whatever you want, but I will from now on refer to it as "The SEC Plus The Next Best Three! May I be dismissed?

suggestion logged. in fact, i like it. Mind if steal it for the next blog?

BTW, not dismissed - promoted. Damn, who said OSU fans were brain dead?

I'll even go one better, for the next pick-em blog, I well let the readers choose "The Next Best Three" games that I analyze. But they have to be from 3 different conferences - not a one conference bundle.

Dang, this could get tough.

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Originally posted 09:02 PM ET  10.06 by BruceS1G

I'll even go one better, for the next pick-em blog, I well let the readers choose "The Next Best Three" games that I analyze. But they have to be from 3 different conferences - not a one conference bundle.Dang, this could get tough.

As long as you have the last call, I think it's a great idea. I absolutely believe this makes your blog 300% more interesting to the rest of the nation.

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Originally posted 08:56 PM ET  10.06 by BruceS1G

suggestion logged. in fact, i like it. Mind if steal it for the next blog?BTW, not dismissed - promoted. Damn, who said OSU fans were brain dead?

I would be honored if you took "SEC Plus The Next Best Three" for your own.

Oh I can just FEEL the love in this blog.You are good at being objective,I`ll give you that.I tend to agree with almost everything you post.So you must be pretty damn smart.LOL

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Originally posted 09:43 PM ET  10.06 by bpcarman

Oh I can just FEEL the love in this blog.You are good at being objective,I`ll give you that.I tend to agree with almost everything you post.So you must be pretty damn smart.LOL

20-3 on his picks? And I got PROMOTED! 3-0 on his non SEC picks, my suggestion. Did I mention I got promoted? Darn right I'm loving it! BRU RULES WHILST THE TIDE ROLLS!!!! BTW bpcarman, you were dangerously close to being dismissed but your last sentence saved you.

Whew,that was close.I just wanna be on the team.I`ll be the guy you can always count on to say something really stupid.It`s what I`m best at.

the plucky comic relief?

Choose the next 3 picks? here's my vote for 2 of them (i am keeping to known teama - not pulling up MAC games)

PSU Wisconsin
Oklahoma Texas

Plucky at best.I do what I can.Sometimes,we take this GAME a little too seriously.(myself included).

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Originally posted 11:14 PM ET  10.06 by Prove It

Choose the next 3 picks? here's my vote for 2 of them (i am keeping to known teama - not pulling up MAC games)PSU WisconsinOklahoma Texas

OK, that is two votes. Let's see how the rest vote.

Thanks for avoiding the MAC teams! I would be lost - we don't get to see a lot of MAC games down this way.

Votes for next 3:

Oklahoma (1)/ Texas (5)
Oklahoma St. (17)/ Missouri (3)
Penn St. (6)/ Wisconsin

Also, BruceS1G with your way with words this should be your day job!

Well Bruce you are smoking on the picks congrats. I watched the majority of the UK-Bama game and the game wasn't as close as the score indicated in my opinion. The last fumble Coffee had though was kind of bad. Luckily the ball bounced Bama's way on that one. Where they had the ball at though they should have been able to punch it in from there. UK was tough but it seems to me that Bama plays to the level of their compitition still. That is something Saban is going to have to cure them of.

Auburn-Vandy, what can you say? Who would have thought the backup would be better than the starter again against Auburn. You are absolutely correct when you say the defense is really starting to feel it from the positions the O is putting it in. With no Sen'derrick Marks on the line the defense really gets soft. Powers getting hurt in the game didn't help either. I think your off on Vandy's 8 men in the box shutting down Auburn's running game though. I think Tony Franklin is the one that hurts the running game more than the players. That line was way to good last year to be playing the way they are this year. They went away from the two tight end sets that was giving them positive yardage in the first quarter and never really went back to it. I didn't see the first quarter though because I was watching the Bama game. When I turned it to the Auburn game after Coffee's fourth quarter fumble the offense looked its normal ugly self with the single back 3 and 4 reciever sets. At this point I don't think they have anything to lose by putting in the 3rd string QB. He couldn't possibly do any worse.

One day Tubbs or Franklin is going to realize for those backs to go they need a fullback or at worse an H-back to do the lead blocking. They also need to actually call some running plays for Todd so that when he actually hands off then goes the other way defenses think he may still have the ball. That or put Burns in and sink or swim with his passing because at least he is a threat to run.

I would say that E in Austin's 3 picks are good to cover. I second his motion.

That is the way I see it, too. I have heard good things about the true freshman Trotter. At this point, I am not sure there is anything that Auburn can do to correct what Franklin has screwed up. The first three drives of the game we rammed it down Vandy's throat. In fact it was the same play over and over that was killing them. Tate had like a 10 yd per carry average. Then all of the sudden we quit running that formation and play for the most part. This goes back to my play action arguement though; If they adjust to that play there needs to be a couple of passing plays that action off of it. That isn't happening right now. I don't know that we even necessarily need a full-back. It would definately help. I think that we will be lucky to end this season 3-3. Arkansas scores points (we don't), Ole Miss is good enough, West Va. runs the same offense (only better), and Bama and UGA are much better on offense. It's like I said last time, if we can average over 20 points, we should be in okay shape going into UGA and BAMA. If we can't we may be looking at a losing season. If that happens, Franklin has to go. For that matter if we lose the next two, he needs to go (and take that crappy offense with him).

I don't think the offense is so much the problem. He ran it successfully at Troy the last couple of years. Troy always played big time schools tough using that offense. I just think he needs a QB that can run it, and Auburn doesn't have it. They have a verbal from a kid out of Maryland that looks like he could run it for them, but that does nothing for this year. I think the kid out of Georgia they asked to switch to DB over the spring that ended up transfering probably could have ran it also. With what they have now though it can't be done which means Frankling needs to make the adjustment not the offense.

I understand that the spread is a shotgun formation, but if you are a QB you need to be able to stand under center and not fumble the ball which for some reason Auburn hasn't been able to do. That should be the next easiest thing to do behind handing the ball off on a football field. I think Tubberville needs to get in there and start teaching fundamentals again because that is where Auburn is breaking down. Don't worry about game planning as much. Coach fundementals and they need to get the attitude of this is what we are going to do now let them try and stop us whether it is on offense or defense.

I cast a vote for Notre Dame at North Carolina. Both teams are a surprising 4-1, this game is big!

Bruce is an idiot and the SEC sucks!

Ok, now that's out of the way...

Outstanding write-up.

John Parker needs to get his mojo on. He can't disappear like that, at least not with NCG on the horizon. Hopefully he's just a mini-version of the Trojans the last few years (bad games against weaker opponents). At least the rest of his team can carry him in the little games. If he disappears like that against the better teams, that game would be a loss instead of a win.

Auburn needs to stop screwing around with these gimick offenses. If USC can make a pro-style offense work, so can Auburn. It helps with recruiting the better players...and...just when you think of Auburn, you think of a bruising running game. Just a shame to see that go away.

As for games (I'm with E in Austin):

Oklahoma St./Mizzou
Penn St./Wisconsin
OU/Texas

I know Auburn fans will hate this...but this year's Alabama looks like the old school Auburn teams.

Wildbill, you do realize that Todd ran this same exact offense in high school and junior college and only came to Auburn because he had committed to play at Troy for Franklin, before Franklin moved to Auburn. Silars is right on with what I am saying. It's the thing that we had when Campbell was the QB. I guess we just didn't learn our lesson with baby Bowden. I think Patrick Nix needs to leave Miami and come home to run our offense.