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Until Saturday: A show about college football

Football & Grits: Two biggest SEC games so far this season & power rankings

Until Saturday: A show about college football

The Athletic

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

David Ubben and Andy Staples get you set for the two biggest SEC matchups of the season so far: Ole Miss @ Alabama and Arkansas @ Georgia. Auburn basically needed a miracle to beat Georgia Southern on Saturday. Did Bo Nix lose his job to TJ Finley? Is Kentucky capable of beating Florida at home this Saturday? The Cats are still undefeated. Plus, David gives his SEC power rankings and Andy reacts.

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0:00.0

Hello, it is Monday, September 27th, and Monday means SEC talk with me, your host, David Ubin, and my co-host, as always, Andy Staples.

0:25.3

A host, or a co-host so good, they named the feed after him.

0:28.7

And the Andy Staples and Friends feed.

0:30.6

We are here.

0:31.4

It's football and grits Monday.

0:33.2

Andy, a lot happened last weekend.

0:35.9

We'll talk about some of it.

0:37.6

But the month, the first month of the season has been so interesting, I would say, surprising in some ways,

0:44.9

that we got a surprised giant weekend of football.

0:48.7

Two undefeateds facing off in two separate games.

0:53.3

A massive weekend of football.

0:55.7

Alabama and Ole Miss going to tangle in Tuscaloosa.

0:58.8

Arkansas making a trip down to Georgia.

1:00.9

Let's start with the tide.

1:02.1

I think this will be the most fun game of the weekend.

1:05.8

Ole Miss, 14.5 point underdogs in that ball game.

1:10.6

They lost last year by 15, but that was one of the more entertaining games of the entire

1:15.8

2020 season.

1:17.9

I feel like the Ole Miss defense and Alabama's offense being not otherworldly just yet.

1:26.3

I think that Ole Miss can hang in this. That number feels a little

1:29.4

high. Where do you stand on this? I think Ole Miss's defense has improved enough to make this a little

1:36.7

bit more competitive. Well, yeah, and not Devante Smith, not Jay-Litt. Was Waddle still there when they played? I'm trying to remember. Yeah, I think so. I think he got hurt in the Tennessee game, and that was like a game three. So Alabama does not have the firepower they had last year when they tors. Yeah, they're not going to score 60 in this game. They're just not. They're not going to score 60 points in this ballgame. Ole Miss still has Matt Corral, who just, that was the game we really realized how good Matt

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