Defending national champion Alabama will try to do something it didn't manage to do last season: win the SEC championship, which can't be done without winning the SEC West.
2012 NCAA College Football – Southeastern Conference Preview
When venturing into the realm of sport betting online, you're going to have a very familiar choice when you try to pick an SEC champion. The LSU Tigers will be very motivated to face Alabama once again this November. The matchup in Baton Rouge, La., is going to be the most awaited confrontation of the 2012 regular season other than Oregon's visit to Los Angeles to take on Southern California. Plenty of bookies would not disagree. The key for the Tigers in their attempt to defend their conference and division titles against Alabama is under center. Solid, competent quarterback play should enable Louisiana State, a strong defensive team, to push past the Crimson Tide.
If LSU can receive quarterback play that's merely a small fraction superior to what Jarrett Lee and Jordan Jefferson produced throughout the 2011 campaign, the Tigers should be in very good shape this coming autumn. If LSU can indeed fend off Alabama, the rest of the SEC West will be much more manageable by comparison, offering the Bayou Bengals their ticket to yet another BCS National Championship Game. Arkansas will probably drop a game under interim coach John L. Smith that it probably wouldn't have surrendered if Bobby Petrino hadn't gotten himself fired due to his dalliance with Jessica Dorrell. Various 5dimes.com reviews would probably concur with that statement. Auburn needs more help at quarterback, and the two Mississippi schools are stuck at the bottom of the conference. Mississippi State can realistically hope for a bowl game, but Ole Miss is likely to suffer through another bloody season, otherwise known as a 4-8 campaign in the best of situations. New SEC West school Texas A&M was mediocre in its final seasons as a Big 12 program. The Aggies have a lot of work to do if they want to become a top-tier SEC outfit.
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Playing SEC football is a high-stakes business, much like online poker. In the SEC East Division, Georgia once again gained a full house in terms of its schedule. The Bulldogs will miss all three of the SEC West's elite teams – LSU, Alabama and Arkansas – giving them a schedule-based advantage that will be hard to deny in formulating the division's overall calculus. It's not just the fact that Georgia misses all three SEC West heavyweights. Georgia's main rival, South Carolina, must play both LSU and Arkansas. The slate simply figures to be a central determining factor yet again in the Dawgs' competition against Carolina. Seeing the Gamecocks win the head-to-head matchup against Georgia for the second consecutive season… and watch Georgia play the SEC Championship Game in Atlanta for the second straight year… could very well come to pass yet again.
Florida has a lot of returning starters on offense, but that's not necessarily a good thing when one realizes that the Gators went 6-6 in the 2011 regular season. Head coach Will Muschamp is definitely under the gun this season. No, he won't get fired if he has a bad season, but he would clearly put himself on the hot seat for 2013. Tennessee needs to ride the right arm of its quarterback, Tyler Bray, in order to be successful. However, an off-field incident in the offseason does not inspire a tremendous amount of confidence or trust in the Vols' signal caller. Vanderbilt is recruiting at a level that's been unheard of for the past 30 years; we'll see if head coach James Franklin can now generate commensurate results on the field. Missouri has a fair amount of speed as it arrives in the SEC East (fresh from the Big 12), but the Tigers don't have the power up front to stand in the ring… not yet. Kentucky brings up the rear in the East. The Wildcats are simply in rebuilding mode.
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Prediction: LSU over Georgia in SEC Championship Game
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