5 SEC storylines Paul Finebaum Show callers will be talking about Monday
By John Buhler
The Paul Finebaum Show will be lit on Monday after Week 5’s action.
This is what callers of The Paul Finebaum Show will have to say about Week 5 on Monday.
We’ve only had two weeks of SEC football games, but good gracious, have these last two weeks been entertaining or what? There are three teams who look phenomenal right now in SEC country and a fourth team who thinks its close. We know who those three teams are and who the fourth team is. When we tune into The Paul Finebaum Show on Monday, here’s what you should expect.
Here are five storylines that will be all the rage on The Paul Finebaum Show.
5. How many SEC teams would win the horrendously atrocious Big 12 this year?
The Big 12 is a heaping pile of festering garbage. Only one team is undefeated through Week 5 of the college football season, and that would be Mike Gundy‘s Oklahoma State Cowboys. The Texas Longhorns lost at home to the TCU Horned Frogs on a boneheaded play to absolutely not be back. The Oklahoma Sooners are 1-2 (0-2) on the season after falling to the Iowa State Cyclones.
Though Oklahoma State can still make the College Football Playoff, who is the worst team in the SEC that could win the Big 12 Championship this year? Is it Auburn or Texas A&M? Would Kentucky or Tennessee have a shot? Would Ole Miss or South Carolina have a chance? This exact prompt may not come up, but the sheer amount of suck coming of out of the Big 12 sure will.
4. It’s time for War Eagle Nation to get back on the Fire Gus Bus.
It’s been a while since the entire Auburn fanbase has tried to fire head coach Gus Malzahn, but the man who perpetually lives on the hot seat will be back on the hot seat once again. The No. 7 team in the nation couldn’t score a single touchdown against a bitter rival on the road starting the former No. 4 quarterback on their depth chart. Auburn is deathly afraid of Arkansas right now.
Malzahn may not get crushed as badly as starting quarterback Bo Nix, who played scared the whole time. He abandoned the pocket like a child does running away from home, making all sorts of awful decisions out of impulse. Georgia may be an elite team, but War Eagle Nation may have turned on Malzahn for the umpteenth time this decade. I-Man will be in RARE form on Monday.
3. Jimbo Fisher is stealing money from Texas A&M University by perpetuating mediocrity.
Matt from San Antonio will try to defend whatever lackadaisical bumbling crapola he witnessed out of Jimbo Fisher to Paul. It will not work because year four under Fisher in College Station is looking more and more like a Ponzi scheme than it is a way to win ball games in the SEC West. Even though Auburn and Mississippi State also lost, nobody is paid more to lose than Fisher is.
It has become the equivalent of a Robinson Cano to the Seattle Mariners money grab. He used to be great, as was Cano with the New York Yankees. Too bad Texas A&M paid a fortune for the imitation crab of a national title-winning coach. There was no excuse to get worked that badly by Alabama on the SEC Game of the Week for the entire world to watch. Hope those checks clear.
2. How in the hell did Mike Leach and Mississippi State lose to flipping Arkansas?
We have endured the entire spectrum of the Mike Leach head-coaching experience in just two weeks in the SEC. Mississippi State was on cloud nine after Week 4’s road victory over the No. 6 LSU Tigers. A week later, the Bulldogs lost their home opener to Sam Pittman’s Arkansas Razorbacks. For whom does the cowbell toll in this situation? Talk about a most glorious letdown.
This can’t be the same Mississippi State team Brett McMurphy voted as the No. 5 team in the entire country on his AP Top 25 Poll ballot this past week. While we can all agree Pittman is the perfect coach to get the Hogs turned around, how did Mississippi State lose the most certain win of the season on its schedule? This is the peak of the valley of a Leach-led college football team.
1. Who’s the best, Pawl: Alabama, Florida, Georgia or little old Climpson?
Alabama fans will clamor they are the No. 1 team in the country by beating overhyped SEC West cannon fodder Texas A&M. Florida fans won’t back down from their claims to be No. 1 because they can score points and it doesn’t matter that they can’t stop anybody. Georgia fans are madly in love with Stetson Bennett IV two weeks after being madly in love with D’Wan Mathis all summer.
And of course, fans from little old Climpson will call in and say they should be No. 1 forever because they’re the greatest thing since sliced bread and South Carolina is 0-2. While arguments will be made in favor of all of those teams, you know damn well Jeff from Columbus will take absurdly loud about how his Ohio State Buckeyes should be No. 1 despite not playing a game yet.
While Alabama fans will gloat, Auburn fans will mope and this will be a great Finebaum show.
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