IT'S POSSIBLE (BUT NOT LIKELY): THE SEC COULD HAVE 12 BOWL-ELIGIBLE TEAMS

I’ve worked up a scenario that involves every team in the SEC being bowl eligible this season. Really. And Alabama doesn’t have to lose a game and Florida and Georgia only lose one more game between them, to each other. Check it out:

• Kentucky beats Vanderbilt to go 6-6.

• South Carolina beats Tennessee to go 6-6 or tacks on a win over Clemson to go 7-5.

• LSU beats Tulane and Troy to go 7-5.

• Vanderbilt beats Wake to go 6-6.

• Auburn beats UT-Martin and Ole Miss to go 6-6.

• Tennessee beats Wyoming, Kentucky and Vanderbilt to go 6-6.

• Miss State beats Kentucky and Arkansas at home and Ole Miss on the road to go 6-6. A bit of a stretch but not impossible.

• Ole Miss beats La-Monroe at home and LSU in Baton Rouge to go 6-6. Hey, the Rebels beat Florida in Gainesville.

• Arkansas beats Tulsa at home, South Carolina in Columbia and LSU in Little Rock to go 6-6. OK, not likely but again not impossible.

But what’s the chance that exactly all these things will happen? Not good.