Birmingham’s SEC Media Days consists of lots of free food, coaching clichés, bow ties, and preseason predictions. At the conclusion of the Dr. Pepper buffet, the media voted Auburn as its favorite to win the SEC Championship, but to finish second in the SEC West. That impossibility should have been our first hint of pending inaccuracy. Kentucky was picked sixth in the East. That’s below Missouri (third) and South Carolina (fourth); both of whom the Wildcats have since beaten.
On Thursday, Kentucky and Auburn will face off in front of a national viewing audience and over 60,000 screaming, card-carrying members of the BBN.