Around the SEC: Nine in the Top 25 and a Saturday Playlist

By the RFA Sports Desk · Written by Pretoria Fields Radio’s AI newsroom (Jarvis) from public game data. Editor: Tripp Morgan.

Nine SEC teams are in the College Football Playoff committee’s second ranking, released Tuesday night. Georgia is No. 1. Alabama is No. 3, Texas No. 6, Tennessee No. 8 and Kentucky No. 11. South Carolina is 17th, Ole Miss 19th, LSU 21st and Missouri 22nd. Florida fell out after losing to Oklahoma.

Last Saturday

• Georgia 42, Ole Miss 7. It ended the Rebels’ 16-game home winning streak.
• Alabama 31, LSU 13 in Baton Rouge. The committee moved the Tide up two spots for it.
• Tennessee 34, Kentucky 6. Tennessee jumped five places to No. 8.
• Texas 34, Missouri 20 in Columbia.
• South Carolina 17, Texas A&M 9.
• Oklahoma 23, Florida 7 in Gainesville.
• Auburn 26, Arkansas 23.
• Vanderbilt 25, Mississippi State 23.

In the news

Ole Miss was fined $250,000. The SEC penalized the school Monday after fans threw bottles and other debris on the field in the second quarter of the Georgia game. Officials stopped play briefly. The league did not suspend alcohol sales at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium but said it could in the future. Kirby Smart’s view afterward: “I thought they could have kept playing.”

Florida canceled its series with Notre Dame. The home-and-home was set for 2031 and 2032. ESPN reports the contract let Florida out without a penalty once the SEC went to nine conference games, which it did this season. Notre Dame replaced the dates with Washington.

The SEC Championship Game is ending. The Dec. 5 game in Atlanta will be the last. We have a separate piece on that.

The standings

Georgia 6-1. Alabama and Kentucky 5-2. Texas and Tennessee 4-2. Ole Miss and South Carolina 4-3. LSU, Missouri and Oklahoma 3-3. Florida and Auburn 3-4. Mississippi State 2-5. Texas A&M, Vanderbilt and Arkansas 1-5.

Saturday’s games, with a song for each stop

All times Eastern. Lines are DraftKings as of Wednesday morning.

• Auburn at Mississippi State, noon, ESPN2. Auburn by 2.5. Starkville: Johnny Cash spent a night in the town jail in 1965 and got a song out of it, “Starkville City Jail.”
• No. 3 Alabama at Vanderbilt, 12:45, SEC Network. Alabama by 15.5. Nashville: Music City needs no help from us. Pick anything.
• No. 8 Tennessee at Texas A&M, 3:00, ESPN. Tennessee by 2.5. College Station: Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen were Aggies together and wrote “The Front Porch Song” there.
• No. 22 Missouri at No. 1 Georgia, 3:30, ABC. Georgia by 15.5. Athens: R.E.M., the B-52’s, Widespread Panic. Missouri answers with Sheryl Crow, class of 1984.
• No. 19 Ole Miss at Oklahoma, 4:15, SEC Network. Ole Miss by 1.5. Norman: Vince Gill was born there.
• Florida at No. 11 Kentucky, 6:15, ESPN. Kentucky by 3.5. Lexington: Chris Stapleton’s birthplace.
• No. 6 Texas at No. 21 LSU, 7:30, ABC. LSU by 4. The lower-ranked team is the favorite, because it is a Saturday night in Tiger Stadium. Baton Rouge: Garth Brooks, “Callin’ Baton Rouge,” which Tiger Stadium sings before kickoff.
• No. 17 South Carolina at Arkansas, 7:45, SEC Network. South Carolina by 7.5. Georgia goes to Columbia the following Saturday, Nov. 21, at 7:30.

Rankings above are the playoff committee’s.

Odds are a snapshot and will move. They are information, not advice.

— The RFA Sports Desk

Sources

• ESPN: Georgia jumps into CFP's top spot, followed by Utah, Alabama, UCLA
• ESPN: Ole Miss fined $250K for fans throwing debris on field
• ESPN: Florida cancels Notre Dame series; Irish then add games vs. Washington
• ESPN: SEC scoreboard (results, schedule, DraftKings lines)
• ESPN: SEC standings
• Georgia Athletics: Georgia-South Carolina Kickoff Set For 7:30 p.m.
• At San Quentin, Johnny Cash (Wikipedia)
• Lyle Lovett (Wikipedia)
• Vince Gill (Wikipedia)
• Chris Stapleton (Wikipedia)
• Callin' Baton Rouge (Wikipedia)

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