Vanderbilt : Scarbrough's Take

Will Bama, SEC Be Pigeons This Year?

Will Bama, SEC Be Pigeons This Year?

Lyn Scarbrough

October 11 After nearly two decades of being college football’s pigeon almost every season, the Southeastern Conference, including multi-time champion Alabama, is looking more likely to be a statue for 2021. FULL STORY

David Winning Not Such Big News Any More

David Winning Not Such Big News Any More

Lyn Scarbrough

September 07 Fast forward 14 years to the first weekend of September, 2021. Forget all this Week Zero nonsense. This was the first real weekend of college football after the long COVID-19 nightmare that generated a season full of inequity and asterisks. FULL STORY

Defenses … When Will They Ever Learn?

Defenses … When Will They Ever Learn?

Lyn Scarbrough

October 13 But, based on the first three weeks of the 2020 season, it looks like defense has gone the way of the drop kick, the Statue of Liberty play, and the hidden ball trick. FULL STORY

SEC Takes Its Time, Gets It Right

SEC Takes Its Time, Gets It Right

Lyn Scarbrough

September 30 Not many, especially not SEC fans, agreed with the conference back in August, not when Commissioner Greg Sankey and the 14 university presidents kept dragging their feet. While other conferences, college and pro, FULL STORY

Mulder, Hoops and the SEC; Has Anybody Noticed?

Mulder, Hoops and the SEC; Has Anybody Noticed?

Lyn Scarbrough

November 13 In Lindy’s preseason hoops edition, five SEC teams were ranked in the Top 25 (Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi State, Auburn, LSU). Eight conference teams were predicted to play in the NCAA Tournament, matching the all-time record for the conference set last season. FULL STORY

It's Bad SEC Football ... But Get More Popcorn

It's Bad SEC Football ... But Get More Popcorn

Lyn Scarbrough

November 08 “Three Little Pigskins,” filmed in 1934 about a trio of college students, mistakenly added to the football team, who know nothing about football. Their play is such a fiasco that when the team loses, people think they threw the game on purpose. FULL STORY

End of First Quarter, Who’s Really Still in the Game?

End of First Quarter, Who’s Really Still in the Game?

Lyn Scarbrough

September 19 Right now the polls say this is the No. 1 team in the country, but after watching Clemson, Oklahoma, Penn State and Oklahoma State, it hasn’t looked that way on the field. FULL STORY

Looking Around the SEC after Week Two

Looking Around the SEC after Week Two

Lyn Scarbrough

September 15 In case you wondered, Ole Miss and Alabama started playing football in October, 1894. The Rebels have never beaten Alabama in back-to-back seasons. FULL STORY

Better Than the SEC? … Not So Fast, My Friend

Better Than the SEC? … Not So Fast, My Friend

Lyn Scarbrough

September 09 If the first weekend of college football is an indication, not only have the other conferences not caught up with the SEC, they are heading in the wrong direction, while the SEC increases FULL STORY

Annual Big Ten vs. SEC Debate Ends Early

Annual Big Ten vs. SEC Debate Ends Early

Lyn Scarbrough

September 08 Results of the first two weeks of this season have already turned that annual squabble into a gridiron joke. FULL STORY