Picking playoff contenders and a champion for 2023: The SEC West
How many true championship contenders are coming out of the SEC West in 2023?
If you missed my intro to this big 2023 college football playoff preview and prognostication, we’re going to evaluate college football’s contenders, region by region, to determine what the likely playoff field will be.
My main criteria will be:
Elite athleticism in the space force, particularly wide receiver and defensive tackle.
Rule of three defense (do you have at least three top notch cover men in the secondary?)
Pass game sophistication. Ideally a dropback passing game but at the very least some high level methods of involving game changing receivers.
Here at America’s War Game we’re big believers in air power and air power negation.
There’s generally two primary squads in the SEC West, college football’s toughest division, who can vie for national supremacy. Alabama and LSU. Auburn leads the next pack who routinely enter the picture in their better seasons. Mississippi State is the only program in the SEC West that never really breaks through to the top level.
Even Mississippi State and the other programs would probably make more runs if only they didn’t have to deal with LSU and (to a greater extent) Nick Saban’s Alabama on an annual basis.
We’re going to at least mention all of them today.
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