Watched the SEC Now crew run through the Week 1 matchups and I just cannot shake the feeling that something is missing. They are talking about Oklahoma and Georgia in Week 4 like it is some kind of crown jewel and I keep thinking back to the 1992 season when we knew exactly who we were playing every single year. The Iron Bowl was the last Saturday in November at Legion Field and it meant something because you had to earn it every single season not just show up with a new quarterback every spring.
These new coaches coming in building momentum through the portal and I just shake my head. Back in the 1980s you built momnetum through summer workouts in the heat of Tuscaloosa where guys like Cornelius Bennett were running drills until they could not stand up straight. Now it is all about who lands the most portal kids in June.
I miss when you could look at the schedule in April and know every single game was going to be a war because of history not because of some television c...