Hey, welcome in the latest episode of that SEC podcast. I'm your host Michael Braddon. Go by

SEC Mike on the Twitters. I almost forgot my name here for a second. And we're back with

Stephen Lassen, senior editor over at Athlon Sports. Stephen. How are you, my friend? Mike, fired up. We got some SEC ball. We're just a couple days away. As a college football junkie, of course, I am enjoying all the midweek stuff as kind of a nice appetizer before we get to the big games this weekend. So fired up, man. We got the playoff rankings coming up next week. So kind of setting

the table here this weekend to see what the rankings look like next week, too. Yeah. So we possibly,

who knows, Stephen, we could have a shakeup here in the Southeastern Conference. We got seven games.

Every single one of them is a conference matchup. So, you know, literally the best we could possibly do here.

We do have a couple of teams on the buy. So that's why we don't have a little bit more games here. Excuse me, six games. I can't count either. I can't. I don't know my name. I can't count. But they're not here to hear me count. So, you know, Steve is going to give his predictions here in just a minute.

But something that we did on the last episode, oh, wait, as always, got to remind the folks.

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I really wanted to get your thoughts because these teams, Stephen, were like the coach is fired.

It's all they all want to talk about.

Shout out to Brian Kelly.

He looks like he may be in UCLA based on AI for nothing else.

But who's going to be replacing O'Brien Kelly? This is what I wanted to go with this, Stephen.

So Shane and I talked about this. His daughter broke down on the side of the road. He was distracted. He didn't give this much thought.

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