by Paul Jordon

It’s Sunshine State vs. Heart of Dixie Week in the SEC.

The top two games on this week’s Southeastern Conference football schedule both feature an Alabama at Florida theme. No, it’s not exactly like it sounds. Bama isn’t playing the Gators. The Crimson Tide is tackling Florida State at a so-called neutral site, in Jacksonville, while Auburn’s Tigers will try to avoid becoming Gator bait, which is always a hard thing to do when playing in The Swamp at Gainesville. Both Alabama teams head south as underdogs - Bama by 2-points and Auburn by a whopping 18.
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by Paul Jordon

Week Four of the Southeastern Conference football season finds paranoia running wild (well, for a two teams at least), a couple of teams that are right about where pundits expected them to be, a couple of teams that are exceeding expectations and a couple more that had high hopes but are now floundering.
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by Paul Jordon

Auburn out, S.C. in!

Talking about the Top 25 football poll, in which the Southeastern Conference continues to have a great showing.

Six SEC teams were in the national poll before the season began and it’s the same story today. That’s almost one-fourth of the ranked teams coming from the SEC … very good representation considering there are six BCS leagues. No other conference has more than four teams in the poll.

With its second straight impressive blowout win last week - this one coming against a good football program, not an “initial school” or lower division patsy (48-7 over Virginia Tech) - No. 2 ranked LSU proved itself to be the most dangerous team in America at this point in time. The Tigers should be ranked No. 1, not No. 2. Other ranked teams this week include No. 5 Florida, No. 12 South Carolina, No. 18 Arkansas, No. 22 Tennessee and No. 23 Georgia.

Other SEC swap in the polls could occur this week if one of this week’s top games comes out in favor of the Alabama Crimson Tide. Unranked Bama, 2-0 after coming off a solid win over Vandy last week, will welcome Arkansas to Tuscaloosa Saturday.
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by Paul Jordon

Exactly half the Southeastern Conference teams were ranked in the Top 25 heading into the 2007 football season. After Week One, the tally still stands at six, with LSU, who demolished Mississippi State on national TV last week, leading the way at No. 2.
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