Author: Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY NETWORK

In college football, it’s simple: The team with the most talent usually wins – even if that team spent the offseason recklessly racing the streets.

The SEC’s next invasion of Big 12 terrain will occur in 2024. The rivalry between these conferences ought to spill onto the field.

Tennessee football punched out the teeth of neutered NCAA infractions committee and avoided bowl ban in messy recruiting scandal under Jeremy Pruitt.

‘Run the damn play.’
LSU ran Snake, a play Brian Kelly decided on two days earlier. The Tigers toppled Nick Saban’s Alabama.
Kelly fits at LSU, yes?

SEC schools meekly surrendered their decision-making authority on football schedule expansion to ESPN and the College Football Playoff committee.

While several SEC football coaches took gutless stances on scheduling format, an unlikely voice of reason emerged.

On one runway is an eight-game football schedule. On the other runway a nine-game schedule. And SEC commissioner Greg Sankey is set to land the plane.

Alabama’s spring game showed that the Crimson Tide’s offense has plenty to work on, whether it’s led by likely starter Jalen Milroe or Ty Simpson.

Did Nico Iamaleava look like a young Peyton Manning? Not quite, but the Volunteers freshman played up to the hype in Tennessee spring game.

From sparkles to polka dots, LSU’s Kim Mulkey rocks in Queen of Sparkles game-day fashion. Then she dropped jaws in Neubyrne’s pink feathers.