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Kamario Taylor, breakout star of the first month of SEC play, will miss the rest of the season. www.nytimes.com/athletic/772...

If you get bullied out of Salt Lake City by Utah fans, maybe being the face of a college football show just isn’t for you

The SEC’s path to 9-3 teams making the Playoff continues to open up. Plus, does anybody here want to get fired? www.nytimes.com/athletic/772...

Also, the argument for a 24-team field is keeping more fan bases engaged late into the season. Well, it's late October, and lots of people still seem engaged!

The start of a friggin' World Series game is being held up because of a game between UCF and BYU, but sure, college sports needs federal intervention.

Believe they only reviewed the Lanorris Sellers TD just now because they couldn't believe he really pulled that off.

A cacophony of CLANGA in Starkville as Kamario Taylor is announced as Mississippi State's starting quarterback today against Oklahoma.

That should've been a pick-six but apparently even when Michigan's defense gets the ball it turns into the Michigan offense.

LSU remaining schedule: @ Alabama, Texas, @ Tennessee, @ Arkansas. If LSU wins three of those four to finish 9-3, gonna be hard to keep the Tigers out of the Playoff.

That didn't look like a good replay over-rule on the Auburn INT. I didn't see indisputable evidence he didn't have control.

What’s funny is that James Madison was President during Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of Russia and that failure negatively impacted the United States during the War of 1812. Crazy to learn that lesson again.

So far, the six SEC coaching changes are looking pretty, pretty good. SEC midseason coaching grades, from Will Stein (A+) to Ryan Silverfield (actually not bad!) www.nytimes.com/athletic/770...

RIP Chuck Amato. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA61...

SEC is out of unbeaten teams, but full of possible 3-loss Playoff contenders: Vibes after Week 7: www.nytimes.com/athletic/770...

Uh, looks like Notre Dame should’ve had another play.

OK all John Mateer needs to do is get Oklahoma in FG range, maybe this is when

See, the NFL calls it a two-minute warning, because things up there are tough, hard-bitten, and they're warning you about the end, whereas in college it's about education, not fear, so it's not a warning, it's just a timeout, don't worry, everything will be okay.

Update: Stein indeed went for it. Cats failed. Then Oklahoma went three-and-out, punted. Moral of the story: Crazy decisions depending on the ineptitude of the Oklahoma offense are not crazy.

Far be it to doubt Will Stein, but is he really going to go for it rather than kick a field goal to go up 17-13 on Oklahoma? Does he realize he's playing Oklahoma's offense?

Kudos to the Arkansas fan trying valiantly for someone to high five him.

Auburn shocks No. 1 Georgia as college football’s top-ranked team loses for second straight week. Initial takeaways: www.nytimes.com/athletic/769...

Gunner Stockton with the first multi-interception game of his career.

All it took for the Auburn offense to finally look competent was ... to face Georgia?

Pretty clear that it's just Georgia and Kentucky then everyone else in the SEC

Georgia needed five plays to get in the end zone against Auburn. Three of them were throws Ryan Puglisi, who entered for a briefly banged-up Gunner Stockton. (Stockton came in for the touchdown handoff to Dwight Phillips Jr.

Texas is a 21-point comeback vs. Ohio State away from being 3-3.

Column: The SEC could have been a hero. The chance was right there. Instead it caved, the Big Ten won, and the unpopular 24-team playoff is on the way. www.nytimes.com/athletic/769...

Translation: It’s not done. I mean it’s probably done. It’s almost done. But it’s not done done. Probably.

Ah, the scenario that hasn't been mentioned but will absolutely happen.

SEC QBs listed as questionable on the Wednesday night availability report: - Mississippi State’s Kamario Taylor - Florida’s Aaron Philo - Tennessee’s Faizon Brandon Also: - Alabama WR Ryan Coleman-Williams is out - Georgia S KJ Bolden is questionable

Alabama-Georgia draws the most television viewers of any Week 6 game ever. 

The Curt Cignetti effect. And now the Will Stein and Bob Chesney effects. When coaches aren’t great right away, fans are worried - as we see at Auburn: www.nytimes.com/athletic/768...

For @theathletic.com, I, deep sigh, wrote about Arch again. www.nytimes.com/athletic/768...

This time, Kirby Smart isn't happy that his Alabama pregame and postgame locker room speeches were leaked. www.nytimes.com/athletic/768...

The SEC has a clear top, a ‘cesspool’ at the bottom and a muddled middle: Vibes after Week 6: www.nytimes.com/athletic/768...

Did Georgia get a couple big, late breaks? Yes. But was it the better team on Saturday? Yes. On Georgia and a philosophical Kirby Smart, who has his best team since the national championship seasons: www.nytimes.com/athletic/767...

It's starting to look like Trinidad Chamblisss in the Sugar Bowl against Georgia.