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BUY OR SELL
October 7 • GameDay 2009 SPENCER WHITE Assistant GameDay Editor
THE SEC WEST IS THE TOUGHEST DIVISION IN FOOTBALL
JASON GALLOWAY GameDay Editor
BUY
BUY
How can you not buy this? Two teams in the top five and four in the top 25. Sure, Ole Miss will probably drop out from its No. 20 spot after this week, but even if LSU loses to Florida, it’s a safe bet at this juncture to think that there is a definite possibility the SEC West could produce three teams with two losses or less. There isn’t another division with that chance.
It’s the bottom three that edges the SEC West over the ACC Coastal. Alabama beats Virginia Tech, Miami beats the SEC West No. 2, Georgia Tech sits pretty even with whoever the SEC West No. 3 would be. But the SEC West No. 4 (LSU, Ole Miss or Auburn), Arkansas and Mississippi State are significantly better than North Carolina, Duke and Virginia.
IOWA WILL BE IN THE ROSE BOWL SELL
SELL
A lackluster start against FCS Northern Iowa had me ready to dismiss the Hawkeyes as simply another middle-of-the-pack Big 10 team. I started to wonder if maybe there would be some magic for Kirk Ferentz after an upset of then-No. 5 Penn State, but Iowa made sure to remind me exactly why Ferentz is not worth his $3 million salary in an uninspired 24-21 victory over Arkansas State.
Iowa’s win over Penn State was impressive, but a three point win over Arkansas State is quite the opposite. The Big 10 is bad, but not bad enough to where its champion sqeaks by Arkansas State. If the Hawkeyes get by Michigan and Wisconsin over the next two weeks though, it is likely that the November 14 matchup between Iowa and Ohio State will be the unofficial Big 10 title game.
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