Usually, as we make our way through talking season (also known as the summer in some places), we look at the teams in the Power Five conferences and identify the teams we like to call X-Factors.
That’s a fancy way of saying we have no idea what a team here or there is going to do this season.
But in the SEC, it feels like the league has turned into the X-Men. There are so many teams that we are clueless about that we can make an argument for 12 X-Factors.
Now, that is assuming Alabama and Georgia are going to dominate the league again even though Alabama has a lot of holes to fill on the offensive line and Georgia lost 15 players to the NFL draft.
Seriously, unless someone is just trying to get clicks or podcast listeners or just wants to be different, it’s difficult to make the case for any of the other 12 teams winning either division.
But they all can make a case for being X-Factors. Dooley’s Dozen looks at the reasons we really are perplexed with everything but the top of the SEC.