Week 8 promised to be a dud, and it wasn’t, but the results didn’t really show it. Few upsets came out of a ton of entertaining games in which the favorites were able to ward off challenges from lesser teams.
The bottom line is that the conference picture looks very similar to the way it was a week ago—heck, it’s pretty much the same it’s been for about a month.
- SEC
The best thing about the way the SEC operated last weekend was that no one got whacked. Alabama survived a harrowing experience against Tennessee at home without incident.