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The NCAA released its latest Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores on Tuesday, and nine of the 14 SEC football programs beat the national average score for football (949). Missouri had the SEC's highest score with a 982, and two-time defending natio...

We're all about spreading the love at the SEC blog. But occasionally, players in this league don't receive the love they deserve. So as we point toward the 2013 season, we've come up with the 10 most underrated players in the SEC. To be eligibl...

With Steve Spurrier speaking out recently concerning SEC scheduling, we decided to go back and look at the SEC championship game participants over the last decade and who they played out of division. One thing to keep in mind is that until last se...

South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier looked around the room recently at a meeting of SEC head football coaches and couldn't help but notice he was in the minority. No, it had nothing to do with his customary visor, and he wasn't drawing up ball pla...

There was a time when playing in the SEC was almost a prerequisite for becoming a head coach in the SEC. That's not the case anymore.

Mississippi State's Aug. 31 opener against Oklahoma State in the Texas Kickoff Classic at Reliant Stadium in Houston will kick off at 3:30 p.m. ET. The game will be televised nationally by ABC/ESPN2. Most of the people in the SEC and Big 12 covera...

DESTIN, Fla. -- These were the third SEC spring meetings that Vanderbilt coach James Franklin has attended, and it's obvious that a few things have changed. With the Commodores coming off their first nine-win season in nearly 100 years, he's sudde...

DESTIN, Fla. -- Former SEC commissioner Roy Kramer still gets a kick out of reminding coaches, and even media members, of all of the gloom and doom they were spreading when the league made the bold move in 1992 of going to a conference championship g...

The short-term answer for the SEC is to keep the number of conference games at eight, but coaches and athletic directors agreed Wednesday that a move to nine conference games is probably inevitable.

Making our way around the SEC on a Wednesday from sunny Destin, Fla.: Nick Saban and James Franklin symbolize the divide in the SEC over scheduling. Georgia's Mark Richt says his priority in the whole scheduling debate is preserving the Auburn-...

Four of the top seven teams in The Sporting News' preseason Top 25 poll are from the SEC, including two-time defending national champion Alabama at No. 1. A surprise to some might be who's the second-highest SEC team in the poll. South Carolina is...

We'll kick off our 2013 SEC schedule analysis with Vanderbilt and work our way back through the league in reverse alphabetical order: Nonconference opponents (with 2012 records) Sept. 7: Austin Peay (2-9) Sept. 21: at Massachusetts (1-11) Sep...

We'll be taking a closer look in the coming weeks at every SEC school's 2013 schedule with our annual schedule analysis. In just about every schedule in this league, there's an ominous three-game stretch somewhere along the way. Who faces the m...

We know by now that Steve Spurrier would like to see only divisional games count in determining which teams advance to the SEC championship game every year. It's worth noting that the Gamecocks are 14-2 in the Eastern Division over the past three ...

We now know a few more TV times for SEC games next fall. Here's a glance at what's already been set for the 2013 season: Aug. 29 (Thursday) North Carolina at South Carolina, 6 p.m. ET, ESPN Ole Miss at Vanderbilt, 9:15 p.m. ET, ESPN Aug. ...

Kentucky has entered the ranks of ESPN's top 25 recruiting classes for 2014, giving the SEC 10 teams in the top 25. Keep in mind that these rankings are extremely fluid and will certainly change as we get closer to the 2014 signing day. Prospects ...