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Rivalry Weekend for SEC Football
It’s rivalry weekend.  The final SEC games of the regular season don’t need any more hype but I see this as Upset Weekend... 
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Big SEC Football Games for Week 5
Get your chores done early and the munchies ready because Saturday will be spent in front of the television. This weekend is a huge SEC weekend with four SEC East versus SEC West games. I favor the West in three games and the East in one...
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SEC Football for Week 4
SEC Sports Report has taken an up close look at the SEC football games for Saturday.  Check out how they see the games playing out....
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SEC Football--Biggest Game--Florida Gators Vs Tennessee Volunteers
ATLANTA, Ga—It’s a rainy night in Georgia.  It has been raining all week, and it looks like the South will be wet for SEC football weekend 3.  Funny thing about the rain is that it can change the outcome of a football game.  Turnovers tend to happen more frequently.  Anything can happen....
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SEC East Predictions and Coaches to Watch in 2009
SEC Sports Report--If you want to know about a team, look at the coaches first. I listen to what they are saying and what kind of moves are they making and here is how it should play out in 2009...
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The Florida Gators Are Great But Won't Go Undefeated in 2009
SEC SPORTS REPORT--The magnitude of being a consensus pre-season #1 team is like a curse.  It’s a lot of extra pressure.  The bar has been set very high and people expect huge success which is hard to do week in and week out.  The game is tough enough to play with excellence consistently.  More media, more fans, more enemies.  The additional pressure will hurt team dynamics.
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SEC Football Moves into Prime Time Television Exposure with ESPN Deal
With the ESPN deal, the SEC just got elevated to a higher status, and everybody else moved down.  Of course, High school football players want to be on television when they go to college.  The best chance to be on the ESPN highlights is to play in an ESPN game.  So recruiting will largely favor SEC schools quickly.
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Spurrier, Kiffin, Miles, Chizik Headline Final Day
Birmingham, AL--The line-up of day three in Birmingham promised to be exciting. Any time Steve Spurrier, Les Miles and Lane Kiffin speak for nearly three hours, there has to be a story...
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SEC Media Days in Birmingham, Alabama--Day Two
SEC Media Days continued on Thursday with a first team All SEC Coaching line up.  The energy level was greatly enhanced by the fans parked in the lobby taking pictures and trying to get autographs from their favorite coach....
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Is Coach Steve Spurrier on the Hot Seat?
Could the Ole Ball Coach be on the hot seat in 2009? When Spurrier returned to the SEC, he talked about winning an SEC Championship. High expectations, tougher conference and mediocre performances have the Spurriers re-shuffling the deck in 2009.
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