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Tom Hart discusses the SEC's offensive explosion in Week Three

October 12, 2020
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Key notes from Tom Hart interview

  • No defense played in the SEC this weekend. Kentucky ended up with six interceptions, but other than that, it was a "take the over" kind of week. It's like that throughout college football. There were over 100 points scored in that North Carolina-Virginia Tech game. I'm a little surprised defense. It is so bad still. I thought the offenses would be down.
     
  • This was a big win for Jimbo and this program, but also to figure out where this team is this year. I saw a team that made plays when they needed to. They took advantage of Florida's aggressiveness on defense. I also saw these running backs emerge and run you over. Fisher wants to be a tough-minded coach and program, and when you have guys like Isaiah Spiller can line up and run guys over, that's what you need to build that.
     
  • It's fascinating to hear that they're only seven games to go. It seems like it just started. I'll look back on this Texas A&M game and think about Dan Mullen's postgame. His panic was real. If you slip up once, then there is no room for error. What is it going to be at the end? Will it just be a bunch of two-loss teams in the SEC? Where are the guaranteed wins in this league with everything else these programs are dealing with?
     
  • Everything off the field this offseason was telling these players to question authority. Put that on the football field. LSU defenders were free-wheeling and not following coaches' orders. You cannot play undisciplined football. For whatever reason, we're seeing a lot of that in the SEC. Jacoby Stevens is a great player, but deciding to do his own thing cost LSU the game. Terrible defense in the week this weekend.
     
  • Can there be two separate power rankings? We need an offense and a defense power ranking for the SECWest. Ole Miss is not interested in playing defense. Alabama gained 94 percent of the possible yards. I think they punted once and lost a fumble at the 1-yard line. There was like 40 yards that they didn't gain out of the possible yardage they could've. To handicap the west, Ole Miss could beat anybody.
     
  • Arkansas got screwed at the end of the Auburn game. Not a good look for the SEC officials. Arkansas could also beat anybody.
     
  • Mike Leach's team has a long way to go. What they did against LSU is obviously the outlier. They do not have the reps yet to operate efficiently against a zone defense. I would have LSU ahead of Mississippi State from a power ranking perspective, even acknowledging what they did to the Tigers.
     
  • Mike Leach is a strict disciplinarian on the football field. He talked about cutting dudes after the game. I expect big changes. He benched his starter, KJ Costello, and put in a true freshman who ran the air raid in high school. He brought some energy, but when you break down the film, it's going to be on the wide receivers. If you're running a route against the zone, you find a dead zone and stop. The intermediate passing game was horrible, and every pass was yards behind the guy because they kept moving.
     
  • Kylin Hill is phenomenal, but he's a receiving running back because of how the offense is this year. He was banged up during the game. He was less than 100 percent and never got the mismatches.
     
  • Mississippi State is not as good as the team that dominated LSU, but they're not as bad as the team that only scored two points on a safety against Kentucky.
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