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Originally Posted by warpaint*
Possible? It's possible I could win the Powerball this week.
There's just no reason to believe I'm going to
Nor is there any reason to believe Fla's going to pack it in
Why?
B/C the SEC Championship is still very much within their grasp. Whether they will win it or not is another story, but they are capable and have a recent and long term history that supports that notion. There is a better chance of them coming in overconfident IMO than there is that they'd pack it in or whatever.
If we were running into them at the end of an underwhelming season where they failed to reach their goals and/or had just fired their coach or whatever sure I'd entertain that possibility. We see that plenty.
We pretty much never see 4-2 teams pack it in with conference championships still on the table. They may not play well Sat but that won't be the reason.
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I should add that the overconfidence factor plays into my thought process.
I've heard interviews from players talking about this...one recently with Matt Leinert in particular talking about the 2002 game against KSU. They flew in from Los Angeles and were like "WTF is this" when they got to Manhattan. From the time they arrived, they just wanted to get the **** out of there.
They got on the plane thinking they were going to hand KSU their asses, but they realized pretty quickly that they were in for more than they had bargained for. KSU got up on them early and controlled the game the whole way. IIRC, USC made it respectable by scoring some points after the game was no longer in doubt, but Leinert pretty much said that they folded.
It happens, and this seems like it could have the makings of that kind of game.