Close calls and blowouts. That’s the SEC in nonconference.
Those days are just about finished, though. While some teams have already started their in-league seasons, a bulk of the rest of them will have a go this week, too (although not quite everyone).
So how do things stack up at the quarter-mark of the regular season? Well, to be honest, about as expected. The studs are studs. The strugglers are strugglers and a whole bunch of teams are stuck somewhere in the middle.
The good news about the league is some of the rarely-seen bunch are stating their case to be in the tier just behind the world’s two best teams.
Let’s take a look.