We’re halfway through the SEC season, and the league still looks like a full-blown mess.
There isn’t an undefeated team left, and the top of the standings is jammed up in a four-way tie between Tennessee, Georgia, Ole Miss, and Kentucky. None of those teams has been handed a clean loss, either.
Tennessee fell at home to Texas, a team that has looked like a shell for two weeks. Georgia got knocked off by Auburn, again in Athens.
Ole Miss was run over by Florida, which somehow keeps toggling between the best team in the conference and the worst one depending on the week. And Kentucky didn’t just lose to Alabama in Lexington - they got waxed.
That leaves Missouri in an odd spot after its rough trip to Oxford. The Tigers’ showing there was embarrassing, but the season is still wide open.
Missouri may still control its own destiny, so the immediate plan is simple: take the week off, recover, and get ready for the Halloween showdown against Arky. If the rest of the SEC keeps spinning into chaos in Week 8, that could open the door for Eli Drinkwitz’s group.
The betting board reflects just how wild this league has become. Auburn is getting no love after going into Athens and taking down Georgia, laying 8.5 points against Lane Kiffin’s up-and-down Bayou Bengals.
South Carolina is a one-score favorite over conference leader Tennessee. Texas, meanwhile, is favored by 3.5 points over an Ole Miss team that just beat a ranked conference opponent by four scores, all while the Longhorns are currently considering benching their two-year starter.
At this point, anyone who says they know exactly how Week 8 is going to play out is probably bluffing. For the rest of us, the opening odds at FanDuel are about as close as we’ll get to a guess.
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