Jackson plugs in a big hole in Tide Defense...

Kiffin out as head coach at USC               

          

 It seems to me that Alabama may have solved a real problem by inserting Eddie Jackson in the defensive backfield.  He had a great game against Ole Miss including an interception. The best thing he did was to allow the Tide defense to play straight up and not worry about what was going on in Jackson's  little corner of the world. With the injured Dion Belue back at his regular corner, and the addition of Jackson made a lot of difference in the Tide's ability to stop the Ole Miss Rebel's high powered offense. Well, perhaps it would be more correct to say "sometime" high powered offense. The Tide chewed up the Rebel offense and then spit them out. The Rebels came into Bryant-Denny Stadium riding in high cotton and left with their tails tucked between their legs.

Ole Miss vs. Auburn will be interesting...

    

        You have to wonder what state of mind will the Rebels be in when they travel to Auburn?  They will either be ready to show they can really play or roll over and die. Most Auburn fans I know believe the whip hand belongs to the Tigers right now. An Auburn win would mean that the lowly Tigers have beaten both Mississippi schools. I say, "big whup". Who doesn't beat both Mississippi schools. Still for AU fans this will be a watermark game for the Tigers. A Rebel win would keep them at one loss and they then play all of their remaining games in Mississippi. That fact makes the AU game even bigger than the Alabama game in some ways. We all know that playing UA is the biggest game of any teams season. I like the Rebels in that one right now.

 

South Alabama almost beats UT  &  Kiffin gets the axe...

            In one of the oddest events of the college football season was how Lane Kiffin was fired. Low class treatment to a low class guy in my opinion. To fire him in an airport was about a classless thing any school could do. I'm no Lane Kiffin fan as most of you know but USC should do things in a better way to end that relationship. Taking a man into a room at LAX and giving him  the axe is no way to do things. Kiffin is his own worst enemy in a lot of ways. He rubbed the SEC the wrong way with his tasteless comments. 

      Tennessee was left high and dry with Kiffin's departure. The Vols have never recovered. A couple of 'iffy' calls went Tennessee's way against South Alabama. Otherwise, the Jags may have beaten once respected UT. How times change. I bet Ole Smokey is embarrassed.

       

        I wonder if one day we might see an South Al game on the 'Bama schedule. Not likely for a long time. Having second tier leagues which include Jacksonville State, Troy, South Alabama, and UAB certainly spice up football Saturdays regardless of whether you are a Tide  fan or not. I don't besmirch any of those schools having football teams and hoping to compete with the big boys. This season as seen some odd things. Whoever thought that USC would have lost to Washington State?  Who thought that Arizonia State would be the school that put the final nail in the Lane Kiffin coffin. We have to admit that the SEC hasn't looked like the most powerful conference in the nation.