Think what you will of Bruce Pearl, but bellowing Bruce can still coach a little, a point he’s proving now on the plains with Auburn the basketball surprise of the SEC, 16-1 overall and atop the league standings at 4-0.
After that, the early returns from conference tilts are about what you might expect, with the glaring exception of the whiplash that is Texas A&M, so good in pre-conference play (11-1) and so dreadful in the SEC at 0-5 and now parked on the bottom rung of the league ladder.
Then there’s Kentucky.
You know, the youngest team in America, if not the history of America, Kentucky.