As temperatures across the Southeast dropped this past weekend, the stakes on the field began to rise, as ten of the SEC’s fourteen members matched-up for conference action. While there was only one marquee game on the slate, it was quite an important one, as the Tennessee Volunteers took a commanding lead in the race for the SEC East with a stunning 34-31 come-from-behind victory over the Georgia Bulldogs in Athens.
Elsewhere, the Ole Miss Rebels exacted revenge upon the Memphis Tigers with a decisive 48-28 win in Oxford, Arkansas and Auburn laid waste to their non-conference patsies, and Dan Mullen and his squad began to work on their game-plan for Gus Malzahn’s demise in Starkville next week.