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The Southeastern Conference is a veritable college football powerhouse even during normal times, but in this coronavirus-ravaged season with Power Five conferences Big Ten and Pac-12 sitting on the sidelines, the league is indubitably the biggest kid on the block this fall.
The experts at CBS Sports took a look at the SEC and gave its opinions on the overrated and the underrated, while also offering bold predictions and voting on which school will win its respective division in 2020. While the scales ultimately tipped in favor of the Georgia Bulldogs, who won out the vote for the East Division, they were also named among the most overrated teams.
The good news for the Gators is that they received three of the seven total first-place votes for the SEC East Division crown, edged out by heated rival Georgia who received the other four ballots. Florida received four second-place votes to Georgia’s three, making it clear that these are the two schools to watch as the balance of power has evened out between the two programs after several years of Bulldogs dominance.
Also a positive mark for Florida, contributor Barrett Sallee’s bold prediction is that, “Kyle Trask will lead the SEC in passing en route to the SEC East title and a berth in the SEC Championship Game.” This prediction may not be so bold with Georgia’s expected starting quarterback, Wake Forest transfer Jaime Newman, opting out of the 2020 season to focus on his NFL draft stock, leaving Trask as the best gunslinger in the East Division this year — if not all of the SEC.
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