I'm putting this up way early, partly out of timing convenience (I'm wide awake after seeing Foo Fighters at ACL Fest here in Austin last night) and also of course because after a roller coaster week that took us from "Wow!" to "Oh NO!", at this point we're pretty well back to where we were at pre-Tennessee, let's face it: We're probably gonna get creamed.
Anyone see it differently, at this point? Maybe a determined Treon has one of his inspired/inspiring games, subbing for a flu--weakened Will Grier? (Though this is also a damn shame, Grier getting sick now: A chance to really begin to assert his longterm leadership of this team goes by the boards, no matter what...Anyway, not just him--it's damn near half the team, at this point.)
Maybe the weather turns out the "great equalizer" after all, as can happen in otherwise seemingly lopsided SEC match-ups sometimes. (Though it looks like we might be too far SOUTH to be radically affected by Hurricane Joaquin, ironically enough.)
I'm not counting on ANY of it, these and at least half a dozen other rationales/frail hopes I've heard: With media-types suddenly talking about a "surprising Florida team" and "Mac has 'em taking care of business", "seemingly arriving ahead-of-schedule", "doing it with mirrors', and so on, only that last one has any resonance with me at this point--and the mirror's bout to be shattered. Least that's what I'm trying to prepare myself for.
Damnit--I was all READY for that, at least I THOUGHT so 'til a buncha crazy things lined up our way, or seemed to starting with bout 6 min left in LAST week's game.
OK OK Ol' Miss coaches ain't gonna lay down for us the way Butch and his Vols did, but I started thinking the weather might accomplish much the same thing for a whole game that no cojones did there in the 4th qrtr last Sat. Taylor, turn overs, Will Grier playing like it's 4th down in the 4th qrtr--who knows?
But who am I kidding? Myself, even now: No matter how I try and prepare, this one's probably gonna hurt.
I welcome your thoughts to the contrary, hope to heaven I'm wrong (I can't ever escape the " Wouldn't it be great if--" factor, after all), but as the line goes, "Hope is a dangerous thing..."
Anyone see it differently, at this point? Maybe a determined Treon has one of his inspired/inspiring games, subbing for a flu--weakened Will Grier? (Though this is also a damn shame, Grier getting sick now: A chance to really begin to assert his longterm leadership of this team goes by the boards, no matter what...Anyway, not just him--it's damn near half the team, at this point.)
Maybe the weather turns out the "great equalizer" after all, as can happen in otherwise seemingly lopsided SEC match-ups sometimes. (Though it looks like we might be too far SOUTH to be radically affected by Hurricane Joaquin, ironically enough.)
I'm not counting on ANY of it, these and at least half a dozen other rationales/frail hopes I've heard: With media-types suddenly talking about a "surprising Florida team" and "Mac has 'em taking care of business", "seemingly arriving ahead-of-schedule", "doing it with mirrors', and so on, only that last one has any resonance with me at this point--and the mirror's bout to be shattered. Least that's what I'm trying to prepare myself for.
Damnit--I was all READY for that, at least I THOUGHT so 'til a buncha crazy things lined up our way, or seemed to starting with bout 6 min left in LAST week's game.
OK OK Ol' Miss coaches ain't gonna lay down for us the way Butch and his Vols did, but I started thinking the weather might accomplish much the same thing for a whole game that no cojones did there in the 4th qrtr last Sat. Taylor, turn overs, Will Grier playing like it's 4th down in the 4th qrtr--who knows?
But who am I kidding? Myself, even now: No matter how I try and prepare, this one's probably gonna hurt.
I welcome your thoughts to the contrary, hope to heaven I'm wrong (I can't ever escape the " Wouldn't it be great if--" factor, after all), but as the line goes, "Hope is a dangerous thing..."