Game 8 Review: The SEC is TERRIBLE

Auburn 52  Arkansas 20.  The Auburn football Tigers got off the mat and rebounded against another awful Southeastern Conference team in Arkansas.  This Auburn team that we all know has problems has averaged almost 50 points against the four SEC teams they have played other than LSU.  You then see the State team Auburn blew out embarrass Kentucky and you couple that with the fact Tennessee has not scored an offensive touchdown in THREE GAMES and you start to see how historically BAD the Southeastern Conference is in football right now.  Arkansas, Ole Miss, Missouri, Tennessee and Vanderbilt are just flat out terrible and many of the rest are not far behind.  Honestly if there was anyone with half a brain and an ounce of unbiased judgment involved in the college football playoff selection process then ol' Bama would be in trouble because of the pathetically weak conference they play in.

The state of the SEC has deeper connotations to Auburn.  I have come to the sickening realization that the rest of the SEC is so bad that it is going to save Gus Malzahn.  I was wrong in my last post.  It is clear now that unless Malzahn loses to both Texas A&M and Georgia (I am assuming loss to Bama) he will retain his job and be back next season.  This stupid greedy conference is so bad now that Malzahn looks great next to the rest of these pathetic teams and I guess he is in some ways.  He still will not ever beat anybody that can stop the run but lucky for him most of these terrible teams cannot even come close.  That was certainly the case last night against Arkansas.  I mean you can see better football now at the top high schools in each state than you can see week in and week out in the SEC.  How many millions of dollars are being poured into these awful football teams and their coaches?  How can they be this bad?

THE GOOD
Auburn had over 600 yards of offense and the starting defense destroyed the hapless Razorbacks.  Our coaches and players are way better than the dregs of the SEC.  Gus Malzahn goes 6-6 when the Mississippi schools and Arkansas are good (2015) and he goes 8-4 when they are bad (2014, last season and probably this one).  Yay!  We just completely overreacted over the LSU loss and three years in a row of losing to our biggest rivals in Georgia and Bama. We just need to be happy with being better than the worst teams in the conference and pray that they do not turn things around.  Of course it also helps that our rotating SEC East team is always bad as well (Kentucky in 2015, Vandy in 2016 and Missouri this season).  It stinks though we have to play the one good East team every year in Georgia and Bama gets Vanderbilt Nort... er Tennessee in the worst slump in the history of that program.

THE BAD AND THE UGLY
The 2017 version of the Southeastern Conference in football. 

THE LAST WORD
Auburn now gets a bye week to get ready for the actual competitive part of the conference schedule.  It sure would feel a lot different if they had taken care of business in Baton Rouge.  The season comes down to the three best conference teams on Auburn's schedule: Texas A&M, Georgia and Bama.  I think a loss to Bama is inevitable although they have certainly not played anyone this entire season.  It could go down any number of ways against Texas A&M and Georgia.  Auburn could win both, split or lose both.  They certainly have enough talent to win both.  It comes down to the coaching which means they will probably lose both but the Aggies and the Bulldogs have their problems as well. 

Again I think Malzahn saves his job if he just splits these games and hey the Mississippi schools along with Arkansas should be bad again next season plus Tennessee rolls on to the schedule from the East!  8-4 again baby!  Let the good times roll...