SEC College Football Games Heat Up with Playoff Implications

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00:00Let's go back to the SEC boards. You see LSU and Florida, an

00:03intriguing game. Of course, the Bayou Bengals have lost two

00:07consecutive big ones against Texas A&M and of course getting

00:11hammered last week against Alabama, but still only two

00:14conference losses for LSU. Texas, a road favorite against

00:20Arkansas, that number, less than two touchdowns, but still the

00:23Razorbacks, a good underdog and then a couple of non-conference

00:27games for Alabama against a nine win FCS team in Mercer, but

00:32they're a 41 and a half point favorite and Texas A&M takes on

00:36New Mexico State. That would be peculiar if Diego Pavia and Jerry

00:40Kill were still there for the Aggies. Now, you know, one of

00:44the reasons this is important is not really for A&M and Alabama

00:48and the SEC title race, of course, as we know, but when you

00:51look around the rankings and you look around the standings, these

00:55games are starting to become even more important. There are

00:59eight teams, eight in the SEC with two conference losses or

01:03fewer. There are three teams, Tennessee, Texas A&M and Texas

01:08and oh, by the way, the Lone Star Showdown returns to end out

01:11the regular season on that final Saturday that have only a single

01:15loss. There are 28 plausible scenarios for a conference

01:19championship game in the SEC entering this third to last

01:24weekend of the regular season. It's why the SEC slain for the

01:28remainder of this year, each and every game could alter the

01:31conference and the college football playoff every week.

01:35Well, it just means more, right? I mean, that's the motto. And

01:38that's why it is what it is, because every game just means

01:41more. So well done, SEC. Look, to your point, nobody can afford

01:45to take a week off, right? And given where we are with the

01:49rankings and everything else, the fact that Georgia was

01:50actually left out of the college football playoff should

01:54set off alarm bells to a lot of other SEC teams going, if they

01:58can leave Georgia out, they certainly can leave us out. So

02:01that I'm going to tell you where everybody sort of stands in this

02:04whole thing here. And you know, look for Tennessee, you

02:07mentioned it, like, if they lose this, I guarantee you, they

02:10drop below 12. If they lose this game, they are on the outside

02:13looking in, I'm not sure that they can recover. I still think

02:17there's a path again, for some of these other teams, even with

02:19three losses, to get into the college football playoff, I

02:21think it's absolutely possible. But to your point, again, I

02:24don't know that anybody has the ability here to say, we can take

02:27this one easy. And we'll worry about next week or the next big

02:31game. Every game is big right now, because there's still three

02:35more weeks of this, you got to figure out, you know, what those

02:3728 scenarios look like.

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