Not a good weekend for the SEC.
Not a good weekend for the SEC.
On first glance this is true but if you look under the hood it was a great week for the SEC which sucks if you're hoping for a change in college football. What makes me say it was a great week? All the top teams in the SEC won convincingly or beat another very good team.:
* The top 5 SEC teams all won. I doubt anyone cares that much about Missouri losing to Wyoming of Tennessee losing to whoever.
* Bama started slow but in the end blew away Duke. They look as strong as ever.
* Georgia won going away
* LSU annihilated Southern Georgia but the real story is the evolution of the LSU passing game. The Tigers brought in the Saints QB coach and he's installed the NO passing attack at LSU. Burrow looked outstanding 24 - 28 with 5 TD's. If you go back to the end of last season in his last 5 games Burrow has thrown 15 TD's & 1 INT. LSU may actually be the best team in the SEC. Of course this weeks game at Texas will go a long away towards proving this right or wrong. But the Tiger defense looks very good and if that offense is real LSU will be a tough out for anyone.
* Florida had to work to beat Miami but that is a rivalry game.
* Auburn beat a higher ranked Oregon team on a neutral field. And the legend of Bo Nix was born. Now you know damn well that the media, which is already biased in the SEC's favor, is going to go nuts touting this kid.
Bottom line though is that with Auburn's win the SEC already has a marque win over a top team in another Power 5 conference. If LSU beats Texas that will be two SEC marque wins over top teams from other Power 5 conferences. The SEC should be able to ride that to getting one and maybe two teams in the playoffs. It sucks but it is what it is.
So overall I think it was a great week for the SEC where it mattered.