It's 3:45 a.m. Monday, and a representative from each of the 12 SEC teams that didn't make Saturday's conference championship game have gathered for the 25th annual end-of-the-regular-season banquet at a Waffle House in Knoxville, Tennessee. The representatives are usually each team's respective head coach, but with the firing of Arkansas' Bret Bielema and Texas A&M's Kevin Sumlin over the weekend and Mississippi State's Dan Mullen leaving to become the new man in charge at Florida, some last-minute guests had to be called upon for this important event. The seating arrangement is as follows:
Table 1: Kentucky: Mark Stoops, Vanderbilt: Derek Mason, LSU: Ed Orgeron , South Carolina: Will Muschamp.