Below the rarefied air of the national spotlight, there are good bowl bids that have to be settled and when you look over the SEC bowl projections, you have to be impressed with the way Vanderbilt has come on at the end of the season, as the Commodores continue to establish themselves as a solid program in this most competitive of leagues.
… it’s time to focus in more specifically on SEC bowl projections, and the team that lived through the most fluctuation–both in their own game, and with their fortunes in the Auburn-Georgia game–was the South Carolina Gamecocks.
Florida now has to either beat South Carolina or beat Florida State. At least the latter is at home and it’s a big rivalry game where strange things can happen. But this would be stranger than strange, if the Gators can stop the Seminoles this year. And as unbelievable as it would have seemed in August, TheSportsNotebook’s SEC bowl projections with three weeks left in the regular season do not include Florida.
Let’s take a brief look at the landscape in the nation’s top conference and then make some SEC bowl projections…
The SEC might be up against it in terms of the national championship picture, but the conference still has one of the most compelling bowl races as come to the regular season’s final two weeks, and it’s league championship game on December 1 in Atlanta. Between the quality of its team, the tightly packed nature of the race and the marquee caliber of most of its bowls, there’s a lot of SEC intrigue, as we contemplate the games we’ll be picking for bowl pools in a few weeks. From top to bottom, we’ll sort out the race and make our SEC bowl projections…