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When you start selecting coaching villains, so much of it gets back to who's doing the selecting. For instance, in the realm of the Alabama Football Nation, good luck in finding somebody who doesn't revere Nick Saban. Of course, the folks in and a...

Just about every week in the SEC, you could pick out a must-see game. That's life in the toughest football conference in the land. A year ago, the Alabama-LSU game in Tuscaloosa was billed as the latest version of the "Game of the Century." Wel...

Some of what's happening around the SEC: An Alabama-West Virginia game is in the works for 2014. Athlon has Arkansas ranked No. 13 in its preseason poll. Is Alabama's flirtation with Georgia quarterback recruit Brice Ramsey over? John Adams...

It's never too early for a preseason college football poll. ESPN's "College Football Live" has released its preseason poll for the 2012 season. I was one of the voters along with Edward Aschoff, better known to most on this blog as the ATL Kid. ...

With Peyton Manning being wooed by a number of different NFL teams in what's obviously high-stakes free agency, I thought we'd have some fun here in the SEC. If there were such a thing as free agency in college football (and, please, save the wise...

LSU will be the first SEC team to kick off spring practice on Thursday, and a lot of eyes will be on junior quarterback Zach Mettenberger. He takes over for departed seniors Jordan Jefferson and Jarrett Lee, and already LSU coach Les Miles has sai...

You've seen my list, and you've seen Edward's list. We both took our shots at ranking the top 10 individual performances in the SEC this season. Now it's your turn in our SportsNation poll. We've selected four choices for you, but we also in...

ESPN colleague Mark Schlabach has revised his Way-Too-Early Preseason Top 25 for the 2012 season, and his latest poll doesn't have an SEC team at the top. LSU was No. 1 in his first poll, but dropped to No. 3. The last month hasn't been the best f...

With Arkansas winning 29-16 over Kansas State on Friday night in the AT&T Cotton Bowl, the SEC is poised for what would be an historic finish in the final polls. There's a very good chance that four SEC teams will be ranked among the top 8 tea...

If LSU beats Alabama on Monday night in the Allstate BCS National Championship Game, the great debate will begin? Does LSU go down as the greatest SEC national champion of all-time? Where would the Tigers rank among the greatest national champions...

A whole host of seniors in the SEC will say their goodbyes in the bowl games. It's their last chance to make their marks on the collegiate stage. Which senior in the SEC will put on the biggest show in the postseason and go out in style? We'...

Several people have asked about the Harris poll and how the 115 participants on that panel voted in Sunday's Top 25 poll. You can go here to see how everybody voted. The Harris poll is made up of former players, former coaches, former college admi...

The kicking game was the difference when LSU defeated Alabama 9-6 in overtime back on Nov. 5. Even though we're all guilty at times of taking special teams for granted, they often times are the difference in big games. So as we enter Saturday's...

There was a poll in the Knoxville News-Sentinel on Thursday asking Tennessee fans what would be worse than losing to Vanderbilt. The most popular answer ... losing to Kentucky. It's been that kind of season on Rocky Top, a rocky ride that's sure ...

We asked the fans Tuesday in our SportsNation poll to tell us who in the SEC has been the most underrated player this season. With nearly 11,000 votes cast, the clear winner is Arkansas running back/kickoff returner Dennis Johnson, who's been one ...

I'll be the first to admit that the Heisman Trophy race is as much of a toss-up at this point in the season as I can remember in a long time. It's difficult to pinpoint a front-runner, although according to the ESPN Experts' poll this week, the to...