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I'm Brian Hayden.

I'm joined right now by my good friend Brandon Marcello,

covers college football for 24-7 sports on a national basis.

And, of course, used to cover Mississippi State a long, long time ago back when we were a lot younger. Those days are gone, though, Brandon, I'm afraid. When we were young. Yeah. 12 years ago. 11 years ago. Okay. I was like, okay, it was a long time ago. And then you put a number to it. And now I just want to just go find a nursing home to go sit in.

It's scary. Yeah, that's, that's awful. All right. I was going to try to recover now to do the interview. SEC football four weeks in. Let's start big picture with you. what's the biggest surprise thus far in the conference through four weeks for you?

Uh, Let's start a big picture with you. What's the biggest surprise thus far in the conference through four weeks for you?

To be quite honest, I think it's Georgia because their defense, I know that Kent State had 22 points,

but their defense just has been stellar.

It's not as deep as it was last year, but they still have enough to just absolutely weird, lean on to opponents and wear them down.

I'm not putting a lot of stock in that Ken State game.

I know a lot of people go, well, look, look.

There's some weaknesses there, but I just don't see it.

If you go back and watch that game, the offense, they weren't quite doing what they're supposed to be doing.

And anyway, long story short, it's Georgia. They're just leaning on opponents with that defense. I thought that they would be a top 10 team this year, maybe top eight, but they are the clear cut number one right now. And at this point in the

year, do you have told me that a month ago? I would thought you were crazy. It's surprising that

I have the same surprise as you, but that's exactly what I thought. That Georgia sort of reached

that, that Bama reload, we don't rebuild kind of point. And that's what it looks like now.

So let's look at Mississippi State now. Specifically, you know, States 0 and 1 in the conference, Texas A&M's one and us. They both played the one game in SEC play. What was your biggest takeaway from States game with LSU and your biggest takeaway from A&M's game with Arkansas? What's what up with the offense just slowing down in the second half of games under Mike

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