New Series Leading Up to the Season - Rank the Rooms
This is something I've been wanting to do, but it's not as much fun if you guys don't participate and give us your rankings/lists also.
I want to go every couple of days and rank the position groups in the SEC. Who do you think has the best QB room? RB? Will Vandy not be 16th in some category?
Let's start with the quarterback rooms in the SEC and I'll put a quick snippet as to why I'm ranking them that way. You can do the same if you choose:
RANKING THE QUARTERBACK ROOMS IN THE SEC
1. Texas - Ewers is very good and Manning is the best QB2 in the SEC.
2. Georgia - Beck might be the best QB in the country. I have Texas ahead due to QB2 isn't proven enough for me to put Rashada and Stockton over Arch.
3. Ole Miss - I like Jaxson Dart in the Ole Miss system........unless they're playing UGA!
4. Alabama - Jalen Milroe proved last season that he can play the position. Interested to see him under a new system.
5. Missouri - I went back and forth between Missouri, LSU, and Tennessee here. Stuck with Cook because of experience and the receivers he has at his disposal.
6. LSU - This one was VERY CLOSE for me. I honestly went with Nussmeier because of what he did in the SEC Championship game against us.
7. Tennessee - The SEC is pretty loaded this year at the position if Nico Iamaleava is at number seven. He's talented and can throw the ball. Would probably have him higher if he had more experience under his belt.
8. Texas A&M - Another I kept lower just due to experience. Connor Weigman was having a really good season last year before getting injured. Now he'll be in a new offense under Mike Elko.
9. Florida - Graham Mertz is an above average quarterback on a not so good Florida team. He had the fifth best passer rating last season behind Daniels, Beck, Milroe, and Dart.
10. Mississippi State - Blake Shapen had good stats last season with Baylor. I like him here simply because of the air raid offense he'll be playing in.
11. Oklahoma - This was another CLOSE one for me. I went back and forth between Jackson Arnold of Oklahoma and former UGA QB Brock Vandagriff at Kentucky. Both are former five stars, but Arnold has a little more meaningful minutes.
11. Kentucky - But Vandagriff has more time in college football in general. Plus the UGA defenses he practiced against every day are going to be better than most teams he plays against this season. For these reasons, I had to make it a tie!
13. Arkansas - They have Taylen Green from Boise State as the projected starter. He's 6'6 225ish pounds and should be decent under Bobby Petrino. They also have Jacolby Criswell from UNC, but I actually really like Georgia native Malachi Singleton as the backup. He's talented.
14. Auburn - Payton Thorne is still there at Auburn and he's honestly just not that great of a quarterback. Average QB play in the SEC isn't going to get you anywhere, especially when your main rivals are Alabama and Georgia. The overall talent on the roster has hurt him a good bit also. They need to pay Juju Lewis whatever NIL it takes to get him on campus.
15, South Carolina – This is another one I couldn't quite decide on. I do believe LaNorris Sellers has a higher upside than Vanderbilt's Diego Pavia. But the redshirt-freshman Sellers only threw four passes last season. He did put up ridiculous numbers in high school though. They also had Robby Ashford transfer in from Auburn and signed 4* QB Dante Reno.Again, I'll put them over Vanderbilt because of the depth chart.
16. Vanderbilt – Diego Pavia did lead New Mexico State to 10 wins last season, including an upset win over Auburn at Jordan Hare Stadium. No trees were rolled that night! But this isn't Conference USA and Vandy has to play six SEC teams this year that will be significantly better than Auburn (Alabama, Kentucky, LSU, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas). They also had pretty much every one of their best players transfer out, including star receiver London Humphreys to UGA.
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