WHAT A FOOTBALL WEEKEND

* We learned the SEC - East is superior to the ACC . Florida, Georgia, & Carolina all kicked butt on in- state rivals . Two of the teams getting kicked in the britches will be in the ACC championship. That looks bad on the conference.

* Mississippi State knocked the snot out of Ole Miss . The Dawgs finish 5 - 7 which is two games better than I expected. The four teams who beat State at Starkville finished 44 - 4. Good start for Big Dan !

* Ole Miss clocked in with an 8 - 4 record in a year more remembered for what they didn' t do than what they did.

The Rebels did not:
a. win the national championship
b. win the SEC championship
c. win the SEC - West
d. win the state of Mississippi championship
e. win the Heisman for Sneed

Other than that it was a great year for Ole Miss. Wonder how much preseason talking the Oxford bunch will do next year ?

I say a lot because big - talking is in their DNA.

* Tennessee rolls in at 7 - 5. That is a good year for the Big Orange.
The Vols improved a lot during the season . In a brief moment of insanity I wished Crompton had another year.

Praise the Lord that moment of madness passed. Looking back at the Crompton era is like a train wreck you survived. You don't know how you made it.

* You think the Liberty Bowl people are glad LSU beat Arkansas . The Liberty wants the Hogs Big - time to meet Houston . Two great Quarterbacks & lots of points will sell tickets plus great TV ratings. If the Hogs had beat LSU they might have gone to a bigger bowl.

* The White Station Spartans are in the TSSAA Football Championship game. Would you have believed it ? I remember when the most excitement at a Spartan game was a Streaker.

I was there at Houston when it happened. He came off the WSHS sideline ran down the center of the field wearing a ski mask & tennis shoes.

He was about out of gas after an 80 yard run & scaling the south end zone fence to escape. I feared he suffered a quality of life altering injury going over the sharp wire atop the fence .

Wonder if the Streaker would make a return apperance at the title game ?