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Former Alabama CB Jameer Grimsley commits to Florida

Former Alabama CB Jameer Grimsley commits to Florida

Former Alabama cornerback, Jameer Grimsley, has committed to Florida after recently entering the transfer portal.

Grimsley heads to Gainesville to play for Bill Napier and the Gators, which keeps him in the SEC. He was originally recruited by Florida and had an opportunity to return to his home state when Alabama head coach Nick Saban retired.

He wasn’t the only early signee to hit the portal, as top 2024 quarterback Julian Sayin entered the portal and committed to Ohio State.

While this somewhat hurts Alabama, the damage is not immediate. Grimsley was a talented four-star recruit who provided depth for 2024 and a chance at starting in a few seasons.

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Breaking: Former Florida CB Jaydon Hill will transfer to Texas A&M

The Aggies gain another cornerback as former Florida CB Jaydon Hill will reportedly transfer to Texas A&M.

Ask, and you shall receive! Texas A&M head coach Mike Elko has been on fire this past week, already landing 14 confirmed transfer portal additions, including two confirmations on Saturday. Just minutes after former Troy offensive tackle Derrick Graham announced his commitment, former Florida veteran cornerback Jaydon Hill followed suit, further adding to the Aggies’ now respectable secondary.

With one season of collegiate eligibility remaining, Hill is coming off his best season yet with the Gators, recording 88 tackles, two interceptions, 15 tackles for loss and two sacks on the season. Coming into the Aggies’ defense, Hill’s 6’0″, 195-pound frame places him as a nickel corner in Elko and new defensive coordinator Jay Bateman’s defense, who served as Florida’s linebackers coach in 2023.

Hill joins former Cal Poly CB Donovan Saunders and former Kansas State standout cornerback Will Lee Jr. in the secondary as incoming sophomore duo Bravion Rodgers and Jayvon Thomas look to improve steadily after struggling in A&M’s Texas Bowl loss to Oklahoma State.

With Hill’s commitment, six defensive backs, including three safeties, fill out the Aggies defensive backfield heading into 2024.

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Xavier Filsaime, a 5-star safety, flips from Florida to Texas

Xavier Filsaime has flipped and is now committed to Texas.

Xavier Filsaime has pulled off a flip, de-committing on Monday from Florida and giving his verbal to Texas. The decision comes after one of the nation’s top safety prospects had been on an official visit this past weekend to Texas.

A 6-foot, 185-pound safety from McKinney High School (McKinney, Texas), Filsaime is a five-star recruit according to 247Sports. He also had offers from Florida State, Oklahoma, Oregon and SMU among others.

With the addition of McKinney, Texas now has the fifth-best recruiting class in the nation and the third-best in the SEC.according to On3.

Filsaime had been committed to Florida since mid-April.

The flip certainly wasn’t a big surprise. In mid-November, Filsaime took an unofficial visit to Texas and then, three weeks later, he was in Austin for an official visit.

 

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In 10 games played this past season, he had 64 total tackles with two interceptions and two quarterback hurries as well as six passes defended.

McKinney finished the season 9-3.

Alabama’s all-time record against every SEC team

Now including Oklahoma and Texas, see what Alabama’s all-time record is against every team in the SEC

The SEC will expand in 2024 by welcoming in Oklahoma and Texas, and while the number of teams grows, so does the competitiveness of the toughest conference in college football. Alabama never seems to shy away from the big-time matchups.

The Crimson Tide is known for setting the standard in college football and winning championships.

As you’ll see below, Alabama has a strong history of winning, especially against in-conference opponents.

While the reputation of the Crimson Tide should speak for itself, if you need the numbers to back it up, look no further. Here is Alabama’s all-time record against every SEC opponent, including the Sooners and Longhorns.

Florida fans melt down after key Gators enter the transfer portal

Florida football has not had a winning season since the shoe throw in 2020

The Georgia Bulldogs have seen numerous players enter the transfer portal, but it is nothing compared to what the Florida Gators are experiencing.

On Thursday, star Florida running back Trevor Etienne entered the transfer portal. Etienne joins more than a dozen Gators in the portal.

Florida’s top edge rusher, Princely Umanmielen, entered the transfer portal earlier this week along with talented safety Kamari Wilson.

Life is tough for Florida fans. The Gators have not had a winning season since the 2020, which was when the shoe-throw incident occurred. The Gators have a strong incoming recruiting class, but that could unravel fast.

In contrast, Georgia football has won two national championships and has produced three consecutive undefeated regular seasons since the shoe throw.

Florida football fans are running out of patience after a 5-7 season. The transfer portal is purging the Gators’ roster, and Florida fans are very concerned about how things are going under head coach Billy Napier.

SEC football Power Rankings heading into the SEC Championship

SEC football power rankings heading into the SEC Championship game.

The SEC has been unpredictable this season. I think it is safe to say that no one would have predicted Missouri to be ranked No. 9 in the country or Arkansas to finish the regular season with a 4-8 record.

It has been interesting to see how the upper echelon has performed as well. Georgia and Alabama are the only two programs that have a chance to reach the College Football Playoff.

LSU and Ole Miss improved as the season went along. Other programs like Auburn, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Florida, and Vanderbilt each spiraled downward as the season progressed. Tennessee, Texas A&M, and Kentucky each got off to hot starts but simmered down toward the back end of their schedules.

Roll Tide Wire provides the latest SEC football power rankings heading into the SEC Championship game.

A Florida player literally spit on a Florida State player and was promptly ejected for grossness

This is just gross.

Florida defensive lineman Jamari Lyons learned the hard way about what happens when you… *checks notes* …spit in the face of an opponent in front of a referee during a football game.

It happened while the Gators took on Florida State in Gainesville on Saturday night, as Lyons and opposing offensive lineman Keiondre Jones got into a brief skirmish that ended in Lyons hocking a huge loogie in Jones’ face.

Understandably, Lyons got immediately flagged by a ref for the gross gesture and later ejected for unsportsmanlike conduct. I mean, can you really blame the officiating crew for this call? That’s just disgusting!

It’s hard to know what would compel a football player to spit in someone else’s face on national television and in front of a referee, but that’s exactly what Lyons did during his team’s game against an undefeated rival.

Florida lost a key member of its defensive line for the ejection, and Lyons lost a lot of saliva — but hopefully learned a good lesson about how never to do something like this ever again.

Feature image courtesy of ESPN.

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The 8 biggest college football rivalries, ranked

A definitive ranking of the biggest rivalries in college football.

College football is filled with chaos and weirdness, and so much of that is because of the heated rivalries that often run generations deep. So we’re here to rank some of the biggest in the sport.

With so many to choose from and everyone having their own biases and preferences for what makes a good rivalry, this is an extremely difficult task. So, I took an unbiased approach and went to the internet to find a few existing lists to use in the creation of a composite ranking.

Below is a list of the only eight rivalries to make each list I found and their average ranking on those lists. It should give you a good idea of which rivalries are popularly considered the biggest, even if it’s not the most comprehensive.

SEC football Power Rankings heading into Week 13 of 2023 season

SEC football power rankings heading into Week 13 of the 2023 college football season.

It is certainly hard to believe that we have witnessed 12 weeks of college football thus far. It seems like just yesterday that Vanderbilt was opening up the season in Week 0 against Hawaii.

Needless to say, the season has flown by, but there are still plenty of games to still be played. Rivalry week is finally upon us. Before we get to rivalry week, we must first take a look back at Week 12 to see how SEC teams performed.

Roll Tide Wire provides its SEC football power rankings heading into Week 13 of the 2023 season.

Missouri kicker Harrison Mevis trolled Florida with the Chomp after hitting game-winning FG

When you beat Florida on a game-winning field goal, you do the Chomp.

Missouri pulled out the win against Florida in the game’s final moments on Saturday with a field goal from none other than kicker Harrison Mevis.

Being that the victory came against the Gators and all, Mevis knew exactly how to commemorate his game-winning kick to get the Tigers to 9-2.

Right after nailing the field goal, Mevis celebrated by doing the Gator Chomp that Florida players and fans have become accustomed to doing every Saturday in the fall.

Oh yeah, Mevis hit them with the Chomp, and it was beautiful. It’s so wonderful that words just cannot do it justice. You have to see it for yourself.

If that’s not the best taunting Chomp directed at Florida that we’ve seen in a long time, we’re not sure what is.

Mevis has become one of college football’s most entertaining kickers this season, and he continued his compelling streak with this terrific game winner and perfect ensuing celebration.

Feature image courtesy of ESPN.

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