Author: Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY NETWORK

The SEC’s next invasion of Big 12 terrain will occur in 2024. The rivalry between these conferences ought to spill onto the field.

There’s no telling how Zach Arnett will fare as Mississippi State’s rookie coach, but there’s no debating Mike Leach’s successor fits school’s brand.

Tennessee football punched out the teeth of neutered NCAA infractions committee and avoided bowl ban in messy recruiting scandal under Jeremy Pruitt.

‘Run the damn play.’
LSU ran Snake, a play Brian Kelly decided on two days earlier. The Tigers toppled Nick Saban’s Alabama.
Kelly fits at LSU, yes?

Nick Saban praised Texas after it pushed Alabama to its limit last season. Months later, Texas remained on Saban’s brain – for a different reason.

Is it a problem that well-resourced SEC programs can use NIL to raid talent from Group of Five schools? Trent Dilfer has some thoughts on that.

SEC schools meekly surrendered their decision-making authority on football schedule expansion to ESPN and the College Football Playoff committee.

Lane Kiffin’s candidacy for the Auburn vacancy rose to prominence last November, and Bruce Pearl is apparently needling Kiffin for staying with Rebels.

While several SEC football coaches took gutless stances on scheduling format, an unlikely voice of reason emerged.

On one runway is an eight-game football schedule. On the other runway a nine-game schedule. And SEC commissioner Greg Sankey is set to land the plane.