The Georgia Sports Blog is participating in a grand new experiment orchestrated by cocknfire over at Garnet and Black Attack. He's enlisted an elite group of sports dorks to participate in the first SEC Power Poll. The idea is to rank the SEC teams from top to bottom every week. The full poll should be up Tuesday over at Garnet and Black Attack. I believe the poll will be up on Monday morning subsequent weeks.We wisely decided not to have a preseason poll, as such polls are inspired by the Devil and are the root of most things wrong with college football. The problem this week is that I only have one game to base my ballot. Add to that fact that only a few teams played quality opponents and that it is difficult to compare, say UL-Lafayette and Western Carolina. With that said, I think this ballot is highly fluid. The SEC right now is bunched up in the middle. The first and last teams were easy, but every other spot was worthy of a Lincoln-Douglas debate. Anyway, here was my ballot:
- LSU - dominated Mississippi State after a slow start, third team defense was still killing State.
- Florida - yeah, I know about the question marks, but they dominated at home and Tebow showed he could toss it around.
- Georgia - looked really good against a hyped Big 12 team, defended a good offense, easily outran an weak defense.
- Tennessee - offense looked fine, but defense struggled far away from home against a good team, I still think they will challenge for the East crown.
- Alabama - both sides of the ball looked strong and they dominated a patsy at home.
- Kentucky - ditto.
- Arkansas - DMac lived up to his normal superhuman standards, defense was shaky.
- Auburn - bad performance against an average Big 12 team, Quinton Groves looked ready, but no one else did.
- South Carolina - bad performance against a below average Sun Belt team.
- Vanderbilt - Earl Bennett had a big game, can really shoot up the poll with a win this weekend.
- Ole Miss - struggled to put Memphis away.
- Mississippi State - D line play in the first quarter was the only redeeming thing about the LSU game, offense needs massive intervention.
Quinton
